I have very predictable periods, sometimes it’s so painful and other time I tend to feel nothing. During those so painful ones, my moods are over the moon, the sun is all red and dark. It tends to rain thunderstorms and hailstorms, and I can hear the roaring of the lion in my body. But,since I began to honor the roar of my menstrual period, the experience has had a great turn. I have had to incorporate simple menstrual rituals into the cycle that have changed my view of the period. I sleep and take a lot of water, exercise and let myself cry when the pain persists and shout…


