Not only that, but I had so much energy I was dancing around my apartment. On my period! This is truly unheard of not just for me but for my mother and aunts. When I got my period as a young girl and started experiencing pain, my mom told me that she and her sisters would lie on the floor and scream in pain every month and sip whiskey to help numb the pain. My experience was reflected to me as normal.
The doctor said I probably had endometriosis, but having surgery would just make the tissues grow back, so there was nothing anyone can do about it. Then followed a lifetime of increasing fatigue, problems getting to and functioning at work, spending a day or two days in bed, horrible cramping, and heavy bleeding. Every plan I’ve ever made in my life has been proceeded by “but will I have my period?”
Since it’s something that women in my generation didn’t really talk about, I have assumed all my life this is what everyone was experiencing. I therefore had this burden of belief that women were created mainly to experience pain and suffering in this life. It’s life-changing to find out this is not true and it’s our food, culture and rotten lifestyles that are doing it to us!
I feel like shouting from the rooftops that period pain is normal, but not natural!"
I just wanted to stop in briefly to let you know of a major win I experienced last night. I am in PMS and as it’s been for 20+ years, I have terrible insomnia. I got up in the middle of the night and per your protocol, went to the fridge and ate some beans. Then I sat on the couch the way I normally do and prepared to just sit there until the sunrise and maybe listen to an audiobook.
Within five minutes the most delicious feeling of Sleep started to creep in to my body. And within 7 to 10 minutes I couldn’t hold my head up anymore. I went back to bed and fell asleep until I my usual wake up time of 6 AM.
This has never happened to me before. I have never been able to get back to sleep, and usually just sit there suffering from the adrenaline coursing through my system.
It certainly motivates me to keep up with the protocol if this is what day one looks like!
I haven’t had a repeat yet of that night, but it’s only been the first week and I know healing and insomnia is up and down and not a linear journey. I have been sleeping more generally though, a good chunk of about 4 to 5 hours, which is much more than I was getting before. It was a great first day to encourage me to keep going.
I’m also happy to say that for the first time ever after having my period for 35 years, I only took one Advil for my entire period where I usually take two every four hours for the first two days and and two doses on the fourth day. There was no need as there was no pain! So I know something good is happening!
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