This episode of The Thriving Mompreneur features Liz Kent and guest Kristine Purcell, a dance movement therapist specializing in menstrual cycle awareness. They delve into the concept of cycle syncing, explaining how understanding and aligning with your body's natural rhythms throughout your menstrual cycle can empower you to optimize your energy, manage your schedule, and reduce feelings of overwhelm.
Kristine shares her personal journey of discovering cycle syncing and provides practical advice for busy moms and entrepreneurs to integrate this practice into their daily lives, fostering greater well-being and productivity.
Key Takeaways
Understanding Cycle Syncing: Cycle syncing is the practice of paying attention to your menstrual cycle's different phases and their corresponding energy levels, moods, and desires for connection, allowing you to align your activities accordingly.
Four Inner Seasons: The menstrual cycle can be viewed as four "inner seasons"—inner spring, inner summer, inner autumn, and inner winter—each with distinct energetic qualities.
Optimizing Energy: By recognizing which "season" you're in, you can schedule social events, demanding tasks, or rest periods to capitalize on your natural energy fluctuations, rather than fighting against them.
Shifting Mindset: Embracing cycle awareness involves a shift in mindset from dreading low-energy periods to viewing them as opportunities for rest, recuperation, and self-reflection, rather than a hindrance to productivity.
Community and Self-Compassion: Connecting with others who practice cycle awareness and cultivating self-compassion for your body's natural rhythms can be incredibly normalizing and empowering, reducing feelings of shame around hormonal fluctuations.
Quotes From the Episode
"At each stage in your cycle, you would notice, okay, what am I feeling? What's my energy level? Maybe what's my mood? What's my desire for connection with other people?"
"I think we tend to focus so much on the bleeding part of our cycle that we tend to call that one time our whole cycle, but it's not. It's like much of the whole month."
"Our culture is just not set up for giving that permission to sort of go in and out of these productivity periods."
"When you're being intentional about tracking your cycle, I think the rest of your life sort of just falls into place."
Resources Mentioned
Host Liz Kent
Instagram: @LizKentCoaching
Website: https://www.lizkentcoaching.com/
Facebook Group: The Thriving Mompreneur Collective: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lizkentcoaching/
Guest Kristine Purcell
Instagram: @dance.of.life.wellness
Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer
The Red School founded by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer
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