Male nervous systems regulate to dopamine (motivation, action, reward messenger in the body), while female nervous systems ground with oxytocin (the hormone of love and bonding). Defining the differences gives us beautiful insight into how to honor each other well + explains why cyclical women struggle in a linear world.

Moving through the motions of menstruation, motherhood, and menopause does not automatically bring us the wisdom we’re meant to embody. Growing older is not the same as growing wiser. Initiations require our active participation in expansion and transformation.

Overwhelm is a symptom of being under-supported — when we can recognize this truth, everything shifts. Allowing our self to be supported and being the support of the people around us is the reciprocity of life that sustains life.

Just an observation of the current state of people desiring genuine togetherness, recognition, and truth over old-paradigm, inauthentic, bullshit patterns — and a glimpse into how this tied into a beautiful conversation I had with a momma through her miscarriage experience.

Women’s lives follow a rhythm of 7 year cycles. From physiologic development to emotional expansion, we move through the “rooms of our house” in seven-year intervals. How can we embrace these shifts, embody what is balancing and valuable for us in each phase, and honor our inner timing?