Women's Health Dynamics Homeschool Community

Are you teaching your daughter about her menstrual cycle? Do you know?

Whether or not you homeschool, we are here to help! Our educational module on the menstrual cycle walks you and/or your daughter through the cycle with wonderful computer animation, narration, and curriculum guide. Module available here: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/puberty-education-for-daughters.html

Also, these cute, free, homeschool prints are from . Check out all her printable!

Happy Love Day Everyone!

This postcard available on Etsy by kellymalka

“It shouldn’t be an act of feminism to know how your body works. It shouldn’t be an act of feminism to ask for help when you’re suffering.” -Dr. Jen Gunter

Go listen to Dr. Jen Hunter’s new TED talk about breaking the shame and taboos around menstruation with knowledge. Amazing!

Get our module to learn all about your monthly visit to Menstrual Island! Click here: http://womenshealthdynamics.com

Happy New Year! May 2020 be the year you want it to be!

Click here for our educational module: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/puberty-education-for-daughters.html

The Creation of Man

This amazing depiction of the birth of Christ is by . Sometimes we forget that the nativity was not clean and immaculate. Birth is bloody, sweaty, and hard work! I love how Natalie created a realistic view of what could have been.

May you all have a blessed holiday!

Please check out Natalie’s amazing work, especially the birth undisturbed series!

Anything you can do, I can do bleeding! Period art by

Click here for our educational module on the menstrual cycle: http://womenshealthdynamics.com

Happy Thanksgiving!

Need a present for a young lady (or yourself 😉) this season? Click for our educational module: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/puberty-education-for-daughters.html

A big congratulations to Dr. Joan Moon, founder and creator of our educational module, A Woman’s World: Discovering the Dynamic Menstrual Cycle, for being awarded the University of Wyoming’s Distinguished Alumni Award!

Joan L. Moon, EdD, CNM. Moon received her award for excellence in leadership, education, and innovation during Homecoming week on Friday, October 18, 2019 at the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences Distinguished Alumni Reception.

Dr. Moon is pictured with her husband, one of her daughters, and two of her grandchildren.

Let’s be part of the change to normalize menstruation! Kiran Gandhi ran a marathon while menstruating and no tampon:

"As I ran, I thought to myself about how women and men have both been effectively socialized to pretend periods don't exist. By establishing a norm of period-shaming, [male-preferring] societies effectively prevent the ability to bond over an experience that 50 per cent of us in the human population share monthly," - Kiran Gandhi

Happy Saturday Everyone! Period art by

Find our educational module, A Woman’s World: Discovering the Dynamic Menstrual Cycle here: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com

It’s almost here! This Saturday find the nearest rally and join in Period Day!

is coming up! October 19 join in a rally for better access to feminine products in school, shelters, and prisons and also to end the tampon tax. Find a rally near you at nationalperiodday.com! All are welcome!

For those in Colorado: is hosting a Feminine Hygiene Product Drive during the month of September to benefit the Help and Hope Center Douglas Elbert Task Force. Join by donating an unopened box of feminine hygiene products. Donations can be left in the donation bucket in the ER.

Did you know that menstrual health products are ineligible for purchases made with public benefit (WIC or SNAP), they are not exempt from taxes, and not readily available in shelters or crisis centers.

The Help and Hope endeavors to meet the immediate needs of residents of Douglas and Elbert Counties who are in financial distress and at risk of becoming homeless, to help them work through troublesome times with dignity.

If you’re not in CO-think about donating to your local crisis center or women’s shelter! ❤️

I found a great article online by on conversations and ideas to celebrate your daughter’s first cycle.

Her suggestions include: education, positivity, modeling behaviors, products, celebration ideas, a cooking class, and openness in the whole family. Read Lindsey’s whole article for the lovely details https://allthenourishingthings.com/conversations-preparation-ideas-celebrating-menarche/amp/?epik=dj0yJnU9QkYwZXlkU1JlczdfY0RhbWFERFl4U3JiRU1GUHdWZHcmbj1FZUp3TzlFT1hBR2tfN3F6MmpVTUhBJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjEtYU1V.

We hope you will include our educational module in your arsenal of tools to teach your daughter too! 😉

Experiencing your first period (menarche) is something every girl remembers. Was yours a positive experience? Did you have support? Help? Shame? Education?

“One of the ways I dealt with not having great communications with my parents, was to experiment on my own to figure out how stuff worked. Until middle school that mostly meant taking old telephones apart, building tree forts, and some memorably disastrous cooking projects. However, my makeshift bra was as yet undiscovered, so I decided to take another risk and tell a friend that I had gotten my period (a lie). I misjudged, though. My friend told her mom, who talked to my mom, who asked me about it just a few days later – talk about a deer in the headlights! Telling the truth was a prospect I couldn’t face, though - it would result in agonizing conversations with my mom, and maybe even my dad, about the lying and getting my period. I just stuck with the story that I had gotten my period, and told my mom I lined my underwear with toilet paper until it was over.

In retrospect, I realize that my mom didn’t ask me much about it, beyond that I should talk to her if I needed "to go to the store,” but that barely made an impact on me – I was now completely consumed by the inevitability that my mom would, sooner or later, check in with me to find out whether I’d had another period, or if I needed "supplies.” In other words, I had to either tell the truth – which in my 12-year old mind could only lead to punishment – or somehow come up with evidence of a period without having any clue what the evidence should look like.

So, one night five or six weeks later, during which time I had stressed myself out beyond belief trying to figure out what to do, I snuck a bottle of red food coloring up to the bathroom and squirted it on my underwear. I hid the food coloring under the sink, called my mom upstairs, and waited, panicking that she would instantly recognize my red-stained un**es as a fraud.

They passed inspection, though, and my mom sent my dad to the drugstore to buy pads..."

-Menarche: A Story of Aching and Understanding: Martha’s Story

Read the rest of Martha’s compelling story on our website: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/article/Menarche-A-Story-of-Aching-and-Understanding.html

This month we are discussing how we talk about menstruation with our daughters!

We will discuss tools, products, stories, and more. This is a sensitive subject and the more light is shed, the easier it can be to help normalize menstruation. Please comment with any tips, suggestions, and experiences!

Link to our educational module: A Woman’s World: Discovering the Dynamic Menstrual Cycle http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/puberty-education-for-daughters.html

I’m sad at how accurate this is. 🤣
Find our module at: http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/puberty-education-for-daughters.html

A MAN IN THE MENSTRUAL MILIEU

"You’re a man. What do you know about menstruation?” That’s a common response when I tell people that I teach a college course called "The Social Construction of Menstruation” and that I do research on the menstrual cycle. Once I explain that I don’t claim to know about the subject from a personal point of view but that I am fascinated by the ways that men and women engage in deciding how they will relate to each other around the presence of the period, the conversation usually opens up into an exchange of observations and stories.

David Linton, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
Marymount Manhattan College

Read Dr. Linton’s story on our site! http://www.womenshealthdynamics.com/article/A-Man-in-the-Menstrual-Milieu.html

Cards against humanity-Reproductive Version

Bodies are amazing! To learn more about yours, get our module! Link in profile. ❤️

Wow! First US baby born this month from transplanted uterus of deceased donor!

“In a first for the United States, a clinic has delivered a healthy baby from the transplanted uterus of a deceased donor.

It's a promising development in reproductive options for women who are infertile due to uterine problems, according to the research team behind the delivery.

The girl was born in June via cesarean section to a patient in her mid-30s, said the Cleveland Clinic, which performed the transplantation and birth.”



https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/us/first-us-baby-transplanted-uterus-of-dead-donor-trnd/index.html

Congratulations to Dr. Joan Moon, the creator of our educational module, "A Woman’s World: Discovering the Dynamic Menstrual Cycle"!

The Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming announced their 2019 Distinguished Alumna, Joan L. Moon, EdD, CNM. Moon will be receiving her award for excellence in leadership, education, and innovation!

Joan has been the recipient of several awards, including: University of Wyoming Outstanding Graduate Student for Community and Professional Service, Esther Rome Student Research Award from the International Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Outstanding Excellence in Mentoring Award from Western Governors University, and Outstanding Community Service Award from Citizens Against Drug Abuse in Bluffton, Indiana.

Thank you for all your work and contributions!

Link to module in profile. ❤️

Cycle Syncing: How to Hack Your Menstrual Cycle to Do Everything Better By: Alison Moodie

“Cycle syncing is when you adapt your diet, exercise routine, social calendar, and even important work engagements to the different phases of your monthly menstrual cycle. That way, you give your body the support it needs, rather than pushing it to perform at the same high level at all times.”

Our module can help!

Link to Alison’s article: https://blog.bulletproof.com/cycle-syncing/?epik=dj0yJnU9dGl2a25vbW5oZjRDbXBxYnhTUzg0TnJTSDF5QTVsTVgmbj1RZlh2N3ZYekwzUVVRLV9lbzE3Z1VnJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjBzcWZF. 😉

Anyone else? 😬🤷‍♀️🤣

If men menstruated! 🤣🤣🤣

Link to our module in profile!

“These stigmas are born out of a lack of education about what menstruation actually is, and how the female body works. To educate is to empower, and the first step is to start an open conversation about the issue.” -Sabrina Rubli

Link to our educational module in profile.

Know your cycle! Save the fruit! Click link in profile for educational module.

Last weekend Judy Chicago: The Birth Project From New Mexico Collections opened at the Harwood Museum in Taos, NM.

It featured art collaboration between Judy Chicago and over 150 needle workers celebrating birth. These were a few of my favorites, but if you have a chance to see it, go! It was amazing!

-Birth Filet Crochet
-The Crowning (Lithograph/embroidery)
-Birth Garment (Quilting)
-Birth Tear/Tear (Embroidery over drawing on silk/lithograph)
-Birth Power (Embroidery over drawing on silk)
@ The Harwood Museum of Art

Throw-back Thursday to two weekends ago when we were at the convention in Denver!