Menstrual cycle and emotional resilience
I used to confuse the term ‘resilience’ with ‘pushing through’. It took me quite a while to realize that pushing through life is a recipe for disaster, manifesting itself through physical and mental overload, poor health, low quality of communications, gradual social withdrawal, and a sense of isolation. In my early thirties, I got curious […]
Congratulations, you got your period!
I just congratulated my colleague on the beginning of her period. I am well aware of how dreading the days before the period are and how alleviating the rise of estrogen feels for the body and mind after its absolute low. As we say, “Good thing about being down is that there is only one way […]