ニオミ・スマートさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニオミ・スマートInstagram)「Let’s talk about periods. 🩸🌹 My attitude towards my menstrual cycle has shifted for the better. Where I used to feel frustration at the inconvenience of my period, I now honour it and welcome in the magic it can bring every month. I’ve learnt to work with it rather than against it. For too long periods have been shamed but I feel a surge in women reclaiming menstrual power. Rightly so - menstruation is a super power. Women who bleed have access to a natural inner cycle that guides and supports (sometimes with a little tough love). Ovulation is a time we can feel energised, productive, like life is just rosy - perfect for focusing on projects and being active. Menstruation on the other hand is a time to slow down, rest, and recover. The problem is who has time to do that? Society just isn’t built around women taking time to rest while they bleed. So we have forced ourselves into a non-cyclical world going against our cyclical nature. Hello PMS symptoms. I suffered for years from PMS, and I now have a theory - that was only my body’s way of forcing me to slow down because I was refusing to listen. How incredible is the human body?! Since becoming aware of how my cycle works and listening more to my body’s needs, I’ve discovered a deep inner magic that occurs when I bleed. Aspects of my life that need to change that I may have ignored will well and truly reveal itself to me during menstruation. My body is crying, “I tried to tell you but you didn’t listen so WHAM here ya go”. Instead of feeling anxiety, stress, impatience, and overwhelm, I’m now working on sitting with that inner voice to hear what she has to say. And I hate to say it… she’s ALWAYS spot on. It’s like shining a light on what isn’t serving me - often small and petty, but sometimes huge elephants in the room. I write it all down and wait until my energy returns to address whatever came up. My cycles are by no means perfect, but I now honour and respect my bleed as if she were a wise elder here to guide me. Sometimes she can be vicious, but she knows her stuff. A book I can’t recommend enough is Wild Power. Thank you Alexandra Pope & Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer for writing this! 🙏」11月13日 21時20分