Code Red

Your period is a four-part code that, once cracked, will uncover a series of monthly superpowers. Learn how to embrace your natural cycle, work with your hormones, and reconnect to the innate feminine wisdom of your menstrual cycle.

Your period has power. Embrace your natural cycle, work with your hormones, and connect to the innate feminine wisdom of your menstrual cycle.

Women experience 350-500 menstrual cycles in their lifetime. But your period is way more than PMS, carb cravings, and lady rage. It's actually a four-part code that, once cracked, will uncover a series of monthly superpowers, and working with your menstrual cycle is a key to wellness, self-esteem, and empowerment.

In Code Red, Lisa Lister shares how to live and work in complete alignment with the rhythms of nature, the moon, and your menstrual cycle. Discover:

· how to attune to the phases of your cycle, from pre-ovulation to menstruation, to find the best times for planning, manifesting, and achieving your goals - from supercharged fertility and sexuality to emotional clarity, spiritual insight, and creative vision
· rituals, exercises, and yoga practices to support you in each phase of your monthly cycle
· herbal healing remedies for hormonal balance, sexual energy, enhanced fertility, energy, and cleansing
· how to release shame and embrace your sacred feminine energy
· easy-to-follow strategies and insights for birth control, fertility issues, reproductive health, and much more

Be inspired by insights from Wise and Wild Women like Meggan Watterson, Alexandra Pope, and Uma Dinsmore Tuli, and stories of the sacred feminine traditions throughout history. You'll be invited to connect with your true nature as a woman, tap into the transformational power of your innate feminine wisdom, and use your menstrual cycle as an ever-unfolding map to crack your lady code.

Auteur
Lisa Lister is an author, well-woman therapist, and menstrual maven. She offers practical, psychological, and spiritual support to women who are exploring, navigating, and healing their relationship with both their body and their cyclic nature. www.thesassyshe.com

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Introduction

So, there's a code.
It's ancient, it's deeply spiritual, and, more than that, it's powerful.
Fiercely powerful.
So powerful that it has barely been spoken for 3,000+ years.

**Menstruation.

**Yep, your period is way more than the PMS, carb cravings, and fierce rage that you may experience each month. Your menstrual cycle/period/bleed [insert whatever you choose to call your "time of the month" here]-is actually a four-part code that, once cracked, will uncover a series of monthly superpowers. You can use these to enhance your relationships with lovers and others, build a better business, have incredible sex, and create a "bloody" amazing life.
Until now, your monthly bleed might simply have indicated whether you were pregnant or not. You may get such painful cramps and suffer so much discomfort that the idea of finding love for your cycle makes you want to punch me in the face. And many of us have been taught it's shameful and/or embarrassing to bleed. Tampon adverts tell us our period is "Mother Nature's curse." Some advertising campaigns turn our blood into blue water to sanitize the process, to distance and disconnect us from our own blood. While others have made our bleedtime look like it's the perfect opportunity for high-energy pursuits like rollerblading, sailing, and riding rollercoasters while wearing an all-white ensemble.
It's no wonder so many of us have such resentment toward our menstrual cycle, which is why I totally get that beginning to appreciate or even, dare I say it, enjoy our menstrual cycle, is a really big ask.
But hear me out.
There was a time when women totally honored and celebrated their monthly cycles.
For real.
It was the cycle that moved a woman through the archetypes: from girl to mother to wise woman through to crone.
Back in the day, when girls began to bleed, a beautiful menarche ceremony would be held to initiate her into womanhood.
She was celebrated.
Her bleed cycle became a part of the natural rhythm of her life, and she'd gather together with the women of her family and community to bleed at the dark phase of the Moon. This was her time to go inward, to reconnect with herself, her sisters, and Mumma Earth. This quiet time, dictated by her body's rhythms, refueled her, filled her up, so she could pretty much rock out in the weeks ahead.
In my own traveler culture, men knew that women were at their most powerful during their bleedtime, so took care not to offend a woman through fear of being rendered mokadi-having something of his soul taken away. Basically, these men knew we were badass and capable of serious magic-making when we bled so kept their distance. Ha!
Our cycle-the bleed, and everything that went with it-was sacred.
But for over 3,000+ years now, our stories, our truths, and our wisdom as women have been distorted, censored, burned, and unheard because those in charge of creating the systems and structures got fearful. Christianity changed up its teachings to totally disregard the potent power of our menstrual cycle, (along with a fair few other things along the way). Because of this, we lost our daily connection to our body, to Mumma Earth, the Moon, the seasons, and their cycles.
Now we reside in a society with masculine constructs that has no guidance or structure for the feminine menstrual experience.
This complete disconnection from the cyclic experience, from our power source, has caused many of us to hate, cut, add to, and mutilate our bodies as we endlessly strive for an advertiser's idea of so-called perfection. We ignore our deepest needs as women because we no longer trust that we know ourselves better than anyone else. We look outside ourselves for the answers. We spend time and money on self-help books, p