Before I share my truth, I wish to say thank you to @wombloom who wrote such a beautiful post about WomensMenstruation mythsplease take the time to read it. Her writing has inspired me to write my truth about our woman moon cycle.
Instead of loving, respecting and honouring all that is sacred within all living things, today's society treat all natural cycles from ageing to death with such fear and hostility. Women were and still are made to feel unclean and ashamed and have been punished down through the ages during their moon cycle or menstruation. I know that for me, I was very ashamed when I first started my cycle, my mum gave me a book to look at and that was it. There was no mother daughter chat as she was as embarrassed as I was. It was just not what happened when I was growing up.
Going into a shop to buy sanitary products, was a huge ordeal, I would hide them at the bottom of my basket and look around hoping no one saw me. So much shame, I hated having to buy those things and as a result I dreaded the time when my menstruation started. I felt uncomfortable, in pain, dirty and very embarrassed. Nobody talked about it in school for fear of being teased especially by the boys.
I spend so many years feeding right into all the bullshit that was surrounding this time of the month. I had no idea about the actual power or wisdom that I had inside me, I had no idea how to tap into it. Like so many young girls and women I suffered in silence. Silence is something that has held woman back for too long. It has been one of the greatest ways we have been oppressed, our silence led us to being so dis empowered. But this silence came from fear and a very long history of being punished for being a women.
Yes times are changing and we are moving forward. But yet so many of us remain silent. There still is such negative connotation around a girl/woman's cycle. Recently whilst I was back in Ireland I saw an ad that was about sanitary products for woman and it said 'How to beat Mother Nature' or something along those lines. This really really pushed my buttons, sending a message out to young girls that mother nature is the enemy, that having your cycle is such an inconvenience and something that still needs to be kept undercover.
Even using the word sanitary for products that women use, that really feeds in to the idea that we are unclean during this most powerful time. There is even deodorant available to help conceal the fact that we as women bleed every month. Why should and why are we as women made to feel shame at the fact that our bodies can create life and sustain life. This is something so sacred and powerful and yet to this day it is being promoted as something unclean and dirty, something that is a huge inconvenience to us as modern woman.
So I will be writing more about our cycles, because this is something that needs to change. We need to move back to a time where all cycles are honoured and respected.
As women we need to end our silence and start our healing. We bleed because our womb is shedding it's lining in preparation for the next cycle, in preparation for our bodies to create and sustain life. While we release that lining, it is an opportunity to release all the emotions that we have been harbouring over the month. It is our greatest form of natural healing, it is our bodies aiding us in becoming more in balance and more aware. We are truly blessed to have this opportunity each month.
We are so intertwined with the cycle of birth, death and rebirth within our own bodies. This is our connection to nature. This is our power, a power we need to reconnect with. We need to take this time to rest and restore, to release and let go. This is what our monthly cycle is all about. Please let me know what you think, lets talk about our cycles, if you feel inspired please write a post about your story, your truth.
I have not finished my truth, this is only the beginning.
I bind myself to myself
I am sacred woman
I bind myself to all who bleed
Who have bled
And who will bleed to life
Sacred Woman
I bind myself with life
Blessed Be.
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