The Cycle Book

a cutie intro Laura (sex therapist) and Morgan (midwife), and our book, The Cycle Book, here. 🩷 we so deeply believe that we all deserve accurate information about our bodies in order to choose what is best for each of us - for our lives and our care. this book is your friend. 📸: @juliakokernak @pictureaimee

Things are getting pretty tricky out there as we navigate politicians policing our bodies and broken healthcare systems. What are we supposed to do with this onslaught of news? How are we supposed to feel when providers and patients are getting arrested for trying to take care?

Episode 304: Men should have to menstruate once a year, every year!! Feat @thecyclebook 🚋🚋🚋🚋  Hosted by @kareem   Created by @kareem & @akuoproject   Shot by @maksimaxelrod & @anthonydimieri Edited by @tylerbat   Associate producer @ramy_shafi  #podcast #subway #hottakes #subwaytakes #interview #nyc #men #menstruation

pleasure as a healthcare intervention

thoughts? thanks @thecut ❤️‍🔥

pleasure is an essential component of health, and none of us have been taught how to properly observe it, let alone track it. pleasure is diagnostic - if we only know when we’re feeling bad, we are missing half the important data! we are going to get into how to track pleasure soon. chart examples and everything. pleasure is health ❤️‍🔥

Women’s health in middle age is its own ball game! Did I say that loud enough? I’m so grateful for the women behind @thecyclebook, Laura Federico and Morgan Miller. As a women in #perimenopause who also has #pmdd, with #menopause around the corner, tracking your cycle is your power to knowing what’s going on with your body. Grab your copy of #TheCycle today!

Does your ADHD seem to really ramp up at phases in your cycle? You’re not crazy and that actually makes perfect sense. The hormones that change with your cycle are also interconnected to the rest of your body, your mind, and your ADHD. As estrogen and progesterone fluctuate, they directly impact your memory, focus, emotions, stress levels, and how you communicate. Cycle tracking how your ADHD changes is crucial to making sure you feel like you’re getting the best support. Whether it’s strategizing when you take medication, modifying your schedule, adding in extra support, or simply feeling grounded and not beating yourself up for feeling different on different days - cycle tracking can be the answer to understanding your hormones and really knowing yourself. #cycletracking #adhd #periods #hormones

ok this is a weirdly chaotic, earnest, and overly specific post 🫠 apologies! but PMDD and PME (premenstrual exacerbation of mental health or physical conditions you may already be dealing with like anxiety or asthma) are just not given enough air there’s not enough research to fully explain what happens but we do know this is not a case of “unbalanced hormones” it’s a sensitivity to hormonal shifts that some people have. I feel like people with PMDD/PME are targeted more by predatory wellness and at the same time don’t have a lot of support in more mainstream spaces. tracking can really help! it can guide your treatment in such an amazing way. I go through a tracking example here 👆 also, to get an official diagnosis usually a few cycles of tracking is recommended. ok! we did a thing with IAPMD recently and are very much here for this convo. fertility meds and PMDD? perimenopause and PMDD? DMs open if there is anything we can help with.

🪐 We shared our Saturn Return stories with @thecut, and honestly? A mess! But if we hadn’t walked through that fire, The Cycle Book wouldn’t exist. It was wild to go back in time and realize that we were both confronting the roles we were handed, the stories we didn’t write, the systems that want us confused and self-doubting. the saturn portal 🌹 ✨ we took some risks ✨ found clarity ✨ locked into purpose Cycle tracking is one way we walk through it all awake. ok tell us yours!👇🪐

Tracking with loooong cycles, not currently experiencing a bleeding phase, PCOS - or even normalish cycle lengths, but just suspecting PCOS Often times people think they can’t track if they’re not having a bleeding phase, but you absolutely can! There’s WAY more to track than bleeding to tell us what your hormones are up to. We just have to learn your individual body’s language and how it communicates.

we joined an incredible conference alongside researchers, practitioners, and advocates, all working to transform women’s health. pleasure is essential care. neuroscientist and sex therapist dr. nan wise shared her groundbreaking work mapping the cl*tor*s, v*g*na, and c*rv*x onto the brain’s sensory cortex - watch the brain light up during *rg*sm.