Hello and welcome to episode 6 of The Future is Cyclic! I'm very excited for this one because it is actually a mini workshop that is usually only available to my 1:1 and group coaching clients. I've edited and tweaked it especially for the show so that I can present you with: Cycle Charting 101! Whether you're brand new to menstrual cycle awareness and want to set up this lifechanging practice in your life, or are a season charter wanting to breathe new life into your charting, I think you'll get a lot from this episode.

Today I’m talking to you about pre-menstrual nesting energy...what it is, why it happens, and some simple tips that can allow you to use it intentionally so that there's so much more flow and ease throughout the entirety of your cycle.

The pre-menstruum is a challenging part of the cycle for many people who experience gnarly PMS symptoms. Beginning to understand and work with the gifts that this phase offers can be a pivotal way to begin experiencing it differently.

Today's guest is Nicolette Sowder, and she is the founder of Wilder Child and Wild Schooling, representing one of the largest global online communities of nature connected parents and educators. Her experience as a teacher in a traditional classroom strengthened her resolved to help design nature bonded visceral learning experiences outside of those four. She is committed to furthering the outdoor education movement through her work as a forest based educators at strong roots natural learning community, and she finds her center inspiration and a lot of eggs on her 60 acre farmstead in Michigan where she wild schools, her two daughters.

So in our house, we are enthusiastic members of Nicolette's Kids Moon Club, and we're also passionate proponents of lunar led living. Connecting with the cycles of the moon is such a wonderful way to connect more deeply with our own cycles, with the cycles of the earth and with each other as a family. It can also give non menstruating family members an embodied experience of cyclic living. So we're talking about all of that and so much more in this episode, including some simple tips for beginning to honor the moon cycles in meaningful ways with your family. Let's dive in. Hi Nicola. It's so lovely to have you here today.

In my experience, understanding the phases of our menstrual cycles can be profoundly transformative. It normalizes our experience, helps us to understand what's going on within our bodies throughout the cycle, illustrates how we might feel, and what we need as a result. This understanding helped me feel less crazy and alone, and slowly change how I was living in order to embrace the ebbs and flows of my natural energy patterns in order to create a life based on joy, ease, connection, and flow. In this episode I explain the Inner Seasons framework of Menstrual Cycle Awareness, which gives us an easy and accessible way to understand and embody the energies of each phase of the cycle. Whether you're totally new to this concept or are a seasoned cycle charter, I think this episode will give you new insights for working with the energies of your cycle.

Today's episode is with my friend and mentor from Cycle Coach School, Charlotte Pointeaux. Charlotte is an Internationally Award-Winning triple-Certified Coach, Shamanic Craftswoman, Host of Wild Flow Podcast, and a sought-after Menstrual Educator and Speaker.

Charlotte founded First Moon Circles®, a globally-recognised facilitator training program which trains menstrual educators around the world to holistically empower, honour and celebrate children and their families at menarche (their first period). She leads a community of practitioners devoted to spreading period positivity into diverse cultures, communities and countries.

I'm so excited to share this episode as we cover important topics that come up often in my 1:1 coaching and the questions I get asked online. We're chatting about the lifelong impact of our first period, how we can go back to heal that experience if we need to, when and how to prepare for your child's first period, and creating a sacred celebration for this important life event.

The Future is Cyclic is the podcast for parents with periods. This is the place to be if you're a parent who's exhausted, overwhelm, and totally done with the burn out cycle that modern parenting seems to force you into. Hosted by accredited cycle coach Sarah Starrs, this podcast is all about finding another way ...a way of parenting that's based in ease and connection, in feeling grounded and centered as a parent and human.

In this introductory episode you’ll get to know Sarah and what to expect from this podcast, to give you an overview of what this Cyclic Parenting thing is all about and what you can expect from this show moving forward. You’ll hear about Sarah’s experience of intense burn out as a new parent and her journey of using the superpowers of her menstrual cycle to help create a whole new paradigm of parenting.

The Future is Cyclic officially launches on the spring equinox, March 21, 2023. Have a listen to the trailer to find out what you can expect from this new podcast from cycle coach Sarah Starrs. 

If you’re a parent who consistently feels exhausted and overwhelmed or you just yearn for a way of living that is more in tune with yourself and the Earth, this show is for you. Hit subscribe so that the first episode will land in your favourite podcast app as soon as it's up. I'm so happy to have you here!