Posts Tagged ‘cycles’
What is the Mother Daughter Your Body & Cycle Program?
When it comes to helping our daughters understand their bodies, many moms wonder: Where do I even start? The Mother Daughter: Your Body & Cycle program was created to answer that question. It’s a flexible, practical, and faith-informed course that helps moms and daughters learn together about fertility, the menstrual cycle, and whole-body health. This…
Read MoreHelping Our Daughters Embrace the Beauty of Their Bodies
Every mom wants to give her daughter the best start as she approaches womanhood. Yet, so many young women, at some point in life, discover something about their fertility and ask, “Why didn’t I know this earlier?” Whether it’s when they encounter challenges with their cycles, face fertility struggles, or take a Natural Family Planning…
Read MoreFebruary: National Self-Check Month
his February — which is National Self-Check month — commit to making your fifth vital sign your most important self-check. Don’t accept vague dismissals about what “normal” periods look like (after all, normal and healthy are not always the same). Don’t be fooled by the artificial “stability” of the Pill or the lie that to be good, a female body must perform like a man’s.
Read MoreThe Lowdown on Caffeine
An excerpt from Marilyn M. Shannon’s book, Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition. **** Caffeine is a good slave but a bad master. When you use it only occasionally or in moderation, it provides a lift that many people enjoy. However, it affects the nervous system, and can cause anxiety and irritability. It can deprive you of a…
Read MoreNFP Uncensored: Single and Charting
I was three years into my nursing program when I decided to transfer from my former college to Franciscan University of Steubenville. It was there — not in my nursing classes — that I first heard about Natural Family Planning. I was in a Catholic Marriage course with Dr. Scott Hahn when he explained the…
Read MoreThe Continuum of Fertility: Breastfeeding
An excerpt from Marilyn M. Shannon’s book, Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition. **** The experience of a nursing mother — as she follows a continuum from complete infertility to normal fertility — is instructive for non-nursing women with irregular cycles or unexplained infertility. At the beginning of breastfeeding When the hormones of ovulation — FSH and LH…
Read MoreNature Cycles for a Reason, So Does Your Body
The Autumn Equinox has come and gone and fall is upon us! September 22 at 10:21 a.m. was the official beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, and a day in which we received a split even amount of daytime and nighttime, 12 hours each. National Geographic tells us that this even split in the day is linked to…
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