Sacred Bleed

Let's get a little personal.

How do you feel about your period?

What was your experience of your first period?

I remember mine clearly. It was Father’s Day. I was young so my friends didn’t have their periods and my older sister only had overnight pads so it felt like I was wearing a diaper going to Father’s Day dinner. 

I also remember that a tampon broke my hymen because I had a very excess amount of blood one day. I asked my mom about it and she sloughed it off as normal but I was panicking and I had no idea what was going on until years later I realized.

Like our sexuality and our body, we form stories around our period because of the culture around us. And the culture around us teaches us that it’s disgusting and shameful and you should just do everything you can to pretend you don’t have a period. 

But when you really look at connecting deeply with the female body, you see that it aligns with so many beautiful parts of nature! The mensuration cycle for instance, aligns with the moon cycles, and if you actually listen to your body when you’re bleeding, it would be a time to slow down and relax and detox your body. 

Unfortunately, we live in capitalism… and we are taught the opposite of slowing down when we need it the most. 

Our menstrual cycle and our bleed actually tells us such a significant amount about our body! How much pain we encounter during it, how long it is, how regular it is, how heavy it is, the colour, the consistency… The list goes on!

But because we live in a world that doesn’t slow down, our period becomes an inconvenience at best and disgusted with ourselves or others thinking we’re unclean, at worst. So we’ve come up with medical miracles to make us not even have a bleed.

When I was 14, I was a competitive swimmer And my bleed was so strong that it seemingly hindered my athletic performance. When we went to the doctor about it, she put me on birth control to “regulate““ my period.

Yes, the bleed became less, but it literally fucked up so many other things in my body, including my mental health! 

Yet somehow no one told me to go off of the birth control when I became so suicidal from it. And I stayed on that birth control for almost 15 years! Finally, I ended up switching to an IUD for a couple of years.

But when I started doing the sacred sexuality work, I started to connect with my cervix and it told me to get that IUD out of me as soon as possible! 

My cervix was way oversensitive and in immense pain to the touch. But when I reclaimed that relationship, it felt like magic to go from incredible pain and sensitivity to incredibly pleasurable sensitivity in my cervix! As well as cycle tracking and learning to connect with my body in it's cycles instead of avoiding it and only treating the symptoms.

And now one of my absolute favourite times to connect with my cervix is during my bleed since that’s the time the cervix, which is the doorway to the womb, is open a little bit more open than typical. Bloody cervical orgasms in the shower with a blood face mask and my obsidian wand... YES PLEASE!🩸😈

Our period is a time that our body is talking loudly to us, as well as being connected to the moon, this time is witchy as hell!

So I’m curious what your period story is and have you ever thought about it before? Is the story you have about your menstruation society's instead of the story that you desire to hold? Reclaiming all of our body stories as ours is what this work is foundationally all about!

 HIGHLY recommend doing the cervical orgasm practice in The Pleasure Witch Coven the next bleed that you have. And pleaseeeeee... Report back to me!