thanx Annete, waterberry, & Jen for sharing your personal relationship with your cycles as well. Experience, upbringing, social conditioning effects us all but hey, it's all part of our walk here on earth....that's the spice of life.

At one stage I toyed with the idea of getting a mooncup (similar to the keeper) but heard from a few others about their experience with recurring urinary tract infections...Jen have you ever had these sorts of concerns, heard similiar things?

xo

In the book 'Dragontime', the author mentions the Taureg women in the Tassili Mountains of Algeria who regulate their flow without pads or tampons.  When their period begins they squatt over a hole in the earth and allow the first blood to flow out, then tense their muscles and hold it in.  They sense when they are about to bleed and just spread their legs wide and let it run out.  They wear no underpants.  She also says that every now and then they jump and move around playfully to air out their vaginas. Isn't that awesome!

I have a menstrual cup but ideally I don't like wearing anything inside me.  Sometimes I prefer to use pads or nothing if I can get away with it!  I don't wear underwear usually so its uncomfortable for me either way, like the Taureg women I prefer to be well ventilated   Sorry if thats too much information for some people!

thats awesome.....amazing how powerful and effective body/mind connections can be!

I used tampons for years until one day I just didn't want to anymore. I have used pads for around 4 years now and am glad of it. I use the keeper for environmental reasons. I am glad to have this also after reading in Elaine Hollingworth's book that most pads and tampons contain asbestos. Why? To make us bleed more so we use more pads and tampons. Sheesh. No wonder the incidence of uterine problems is on the increase.

No I have had no problems with UTI's. I have a friend who has used hers for 7 years with no problems.

I love the idea of being able to control the flow.

xoxoxoxo

Thanks for the support Sanghama, I was hesitant to share that but you made me laugh


Interesting ideas Becky.  I once had a conversation with a doctor about contraception that went along the same lines. Slightly different of course because she was pushing implanon (sounds like a drug dealer ).

We were discusing different forms of hormonal contraception and I said I didn't want to use anything unnatural, so she says condoms are unnatural too and its unnatural to use contraception at all because women are naturally supposed to be pregnant all the time and its not normal for us to be menstruating as much as we do.

I was actually quite frustrated with that doctor though, she wouldn't admitt that there was a difference between using condoms and using hormones to control fertility!  She also wrote down in my file that I was a possible hypochondriac as a result of this and other consultations... but thats another story that ended in me being booked in and sent for a psychiatric assessment without my knowledge or consent, something I'm still really angry about.

Anyway, I'm interested in what you said about the extended periods of suppressed oestrogen dominance being health promoting, I wasn't really aware of that.  I have also read that during pregnancy the body works on correcting certain health problems too, I read that in a homeopathy book.

I have a suggestion for you Gina, and yes, it feels emotional to me.

What if you treated your uterus like a seperate person/personality to you?  What if you spoke to your uterus like you would if you best friend was in pain?    I have done some voice dialogue and body dialogue sessions, and it is amazing what the body reveals when you communicate directly to it. 

What happens when you have the pain?  Do you try to ignore or block it somehow, or treat it in a negative manner?  Sometimes all the body part needs is acknowledgement, just a simple "hey, I know your there, thanks for the great work you do for me" type of thing. 

I used to ignore my pain, hoping it would eventually go away.  Now I try to treat it like a small neglected child, after acknowledging its presence, I then love and embrace it, and most of the time this is all it requires.

You know your body best, and it sounds like your intuition is really strong.  You'll get your answer from within.

Sanghama

Oh, I nearly forgot.  On the food side of things the avocado is recommended for the uterus, according to the doctrine of signatures.  An avocado looks like a womb and cervix with a swollen seed and that it takes exactly 9 months to grow from blossom to ripened fruit. 

Gina,beautiful soul that you are ,i send you a warm hug...

i too speak to the parts of my body,when they arent feeling so in sync...and even when things are running well,i still do!

I have had terrible grief with period pain before i changed to raw over 4 years ago...and then my period stopped,and then i got my first period after all that time,2 weeks ago,after adding in protein....
exactly a year,since my miscarriage last year!

thank you Gina...just taking things as they come,if it happens great! if it doesnt thats great too..

i think,because i use to feel so uncomfortable about being a woman...and certainly had  alot of self loathing,that had a lot to do with my period pains..way back when!

tell you what!! since period coming back...i am ah,pleased to say that my libido has kicked in nicely,lol!