Crystal’s Story

My period has always been a source of fascination to me. Fascination has two facets. On the one side, it's the powerful, awe-filled side. It's standing center stage in college doing a vagina monologue. It's making love on the beach under the stars, and I'm on my cycle and my partner doesn't care. It's that dull sort of ache when I know that my period is coming and I feel it resonating and I feel very tapped in to the frequencies of the planet. I feel like I could conjure lightning or something. It's so powerful. 

And then the other side of the fascination is wonderment and confusion. It's not knowing when the dull ache is gonna come, because would you believe it wasn't until like my late twenties when (it was actually a video on Instagram I think) I learned that what they call a cycle is actually part of a larger cycle. I didn't know until like 24, 25. I said, oh, that makes sense. That's why I have the hot week, the sad week, the pain week, and the recovery week, and I really didn't know any of that. So I'm grateful to be part of something like this that brings together people of the entire spectrum. People that have more knowledge than the average bear, you know, the cyclical counselors and stuff like that.

So I'm embracing learning more and just kind of listening to my body in terms of the cycle. Your body will tell you things. Your pee is dark means you need some water, or you need some leafy stuff this week. So I'm really just trying to sink my toes into the earth, so to speak, and really resonate with the truth and the facts of it as they pertain to me and pertain to all of us.

-Crystal, she/her, 33