Why It's Time to Ditch the Menstrual Cup and Tampon
Oct 21, 2024
I used tampons for many years before switching to a menstrual cup (another 5 years). I was also on the pill for over a decade.
In the last few years, I’ve invested an astronomical amount of dollars on healing my body including 4 years of painful bleeds every month. Which is why I’m teaching women this body of work that’s interwoven into the ecosystem of their relationship and business.
In the last year, quite a few of my group and private clients have shared they can no longer use the cup or tampon, because their yonis are literally rejecting them, as in, pushing them out.
This is the oracular voice of your womb screaming, “Enough. Pay attention to me. And tend to me.”
The hijacked modern day matrix lifestyle has women living in a state of amnesia and deep mind-body-womb-heart severance.
We want to pop a pill to look like a supermodel. Take a 3-month business program to create $50K months. And rely on a broken “health” system to tell us what it means to thrive.
How a woman relates to her womb and blood (which, isn’t just an isolated event once a month. It’s a continuum of how we tend to our woman DAILY from follicular to menstruation), speaks volumes on how she relates to the rest of the eco-system that revolves around her womb - intimacy, sexuality, body, business, and money.
Menstrual cups are convenient.
They are marketed as the safe and sustainable alternative to pads and tampons.
Yet when it comes to the highly sophisticated and complex feminine system, what’s quick and convenient according to modern day standards, isn’t necessarily what makes us thrive - physically, emotionally, sexually, and spiritually.
Menstrual cups rely on the suction effect to stay inside the yoni, by creating a seal around the cervix and using pelvic floor muscles to help keep it open.
It means, the pelvic floor muscles need to contract to *hold in* the cup, as opposed to relaxing and releasing.
Chronic tension in the pelvis diminishes the overall vitality of the cervix and womb, which can lead to an array of sexual and fertility challenges in women.
Over time, the use of menstrual cups can also cause the positioning of our cervix and uterus (womb) to shift and become off-centered.
An off-centered womb...
Is an off-centered woman.
Our monthly bleed isn’t just the shedding of the uterine lining.
This is a time of intensified psycho-emotional release, as our cervix lowers herself, and shifts into a centrifugal motion of descent and dilation.
Pulling us downward, into our primal body, animal instincts, and the dark, damp yin of the earth.
Where a woman enters into an altered state of consciousness, and experiences her monthly shamanic medicine ceremony and the wisdom it offers.
The bigger questions I like to ask women are:
- What is your baseline relationship with your bleed and your womb? Is it the conventional “pap smear once a year” and ”wanting to minimize the inconveniences during that time of the month” once a month?
- Do you view your menstrual blood as messy and disgusting?
- Do you feel victimized by your body in any way, when she needs to slow down and rest, and does not want “life and business as usual?”
The womb is a physical and energetic organ that holds potential and wounds, both individual and ancestral.
She cycles through life, death, and life, in a rhythmic continuum.
Month after month.
Year after year.
What’s held within the womb needs to move and mobilize, in order for our feminine waters to continue to hydrate and nourish us.
The health of our womb - the center of our feminine consciousness and receptivity, spirals into the rest of our feminine wellbeing, as well as the eco-system we hold - our relationship intimacy with our men, business, and money.
The health of our cervix is intimately connected to our somatic capacity to feel resourceful, centered, and overflowing from the inside out. As well as our ability to own and evoke with our voice.
We live in a world of mostly *male standards* when it comes to just about anything - work hours, business building, and health and fitness.
A continuous part of awakening to our feminine receptivity and eros, is the unlearning, and re-learning of what it means to be woman, and to thrive at it.
A very big part of this, is the willingness to be inconvenienced, and unplug from the fast paced and disembodied programming that sucks us out of the cellular intelligence and life-birthing potency within the feminine body.
