I want to chat with you about PERIODS. I'll admit that not too long ago the word alone made me groan. Every month I would repeat some version of, "Ugh, it couldn't have come at a worse time!" So many of us feel this time of the month is an inconvenience and it's partly because we've lost our connection with our cycle. Who can blame us? In our patriarchal capitalist society our cycle has been reduced as a means to reproduce and when we bleed it becomes meaningless. Bleeding slows us down and that's not acceptable in a society driven by productivity, work and output.