Posts Tagged ‘rhythm’
What Are the Rhythms of A Woman's Life?
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This is Women’s Health Week. I’ll be posting about this on all my blogs during the week, starting with this guest post by Suzanne Mathis McQueen. Suzanne has been a lifelong women’s advocate as well as an entrepreneur in the salon/spa industry, working with thousands of women individually as employer, associate, mentor, business leader, instructor, and hairdresser (aka confidante), for nearly 30 yrs. She is currently writing a book on the natural monthly rhythm of women, basically re-writing society’s version of the female cycle, called Four Seasons in Four Weeks: the new female experience. She lives in Ashland, Oregon with her 14-yr. old daughter, Myan (who was born on International Women’s Day and will also begin blogging, any day now, for teens on the website). I appreciate her sharing this post called “Your Natural Monthly Rhythm”:
When it comes to “periods” Mother Nature doesn’t care whether you’re black, white, purple, or polka-dotted, Republican or Democrat, Buddhist or Atheist, straight or gay, as long as you’re a human female and somewhere between the ages of 8 and 55-ish. Minus pregnancies, nursing, hysterectomies, or some unusual health challenge, women cycle day in and day out for approximately 40 years of their lives. Yet this basic premise of what makes me female is an uncomfortable, if not taboo, subject. Due to lack of information, embarrassment, or violence against them, women worldwide often suffer in silence from its sometimes chaotic effects, which influence their lives in every way – including parenting, friendships, and their sexual relationship.
As an employer, instructor, longtime mentor and women’s advocate, I continue to observe that young women don’t feel well on a consistent basis. The majority of women I talk to say their monthly cycles disrupt their lives in some large or small way, yet they don’t know how to tame the lion. I see most women going 24/7 no matter what is happening with them personally. Often they are quietly dealing with heavy bleeding, on-going fatigue, extreme breast tenderness, or headaches while working and taking care of the family. It would help a lot if their guy could understand.
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