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Meditation! I am about to sit for twenty minutes right now!
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I have used the instead cups for about 10 years now and generally love them. I buy a box of 12 and use one for each period. A benifit of the instead cup is that there is no pointy end so if you are like me and inevitably get your period everytime you book a weekend getaway, you can still have intercourse. Now, on my first day, he's not getting near me, but the following, lighter days, I can clean it out, insert it, and I've got a few hours to play.
On my first day, I usually wear a pad as backup incase of a heavy sneeze, often times that pad gets thrown out unscathed.
Another cool, or gross, little feature of the instead cups is that if you are at work or a public restroom you can "burp" the cup without fully removing it.
Like was said before, this is a great option for swimming and fitness classes but somewhere I found that it did not work for me was camping. It was hard to get it clean when using a communal bathroom and certainly not ideal for outhouses, also not recommended to spill quantities of hormonal blood near a campsite lest you want to be visited by some creepy critters.
As for Mirena or other birth control options that stop your period…That just does not sound right. Our bodies, women's bodies have a cycle for a reason, screwing with that a little here and a little there…that's one thing… but stopping the cycle just sounds bereft of of connection to the organism that we are. How many women have been studied for long term effects to ceasing your menses? Who's name is on the study that released these drugs? Bet it was a man.
And in the great word's of the great Dr. Christiane Northrup, " Men planted their flag in our body parts as if it was conquering a mountaintop, as if we didn't own our own bodies" Through the ages we've known our bodies, we knew our blood, we all bled in the same cycles, we were connected to the moon's cycles, our vaginas, our labia, our uteruses were sacred and revered. We let the flags get planted there, friendly and welcoming as we are, but we didn't have to give up our connection to just how divine it is to be a woman. Somehow, along the way, when we were taught about our Fallopian Tubes (named after Gabriele Falloppio) and doing our Keigel's (Dr. Arnold Kegel) we stopped looking at ourselves as magnificent and started to believe that our period is a curse, and being pregnant is an illness, and menopause is something to be feared, swoon, my life is over….bullpoo. It is conversations like this one that bring us back home and helps us pass some wisdom on to the younger ones, and help us grow in community. Our energy births the world….sit with that a minute!
Well, I'm glad we've had this talk. We should talk and talk and type and talk and own our bodies and our womanhood and share our wisdom, and hold those men who cared enough to read this far in our arms, hearts and between our powerful thighs in "deepest" thanks and respect for their journey through this world.
Namaste Girly Whirls, Namaste
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Somebody was getting married in April and I was supposed to remind you. Someone from chat, but damn, I can't remember who it was! We chatted about a bachelorette theme, love and marriage, leaving singlehood behind and keeping hold on being vibrant and sexy even though you've decided to "settle down" .
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Me too please!