For ten years, I lived with the deep disconnection that came from being on hormonal birth control ~ in constant battle with my body, always striving but never arriving. I measured myself against impossible standards, crippled by comparison and always seeing my flaws before my beauty.

During this time, I spent years working at sea in the Super Yacht industry, a life that fed my love for travel and moving between horizons. As a Chief Stew, this work taught me resilience, adaptability and what it means to hold space for others. However, beneath the adventure and travel, I began to drift further from a life anchored in deep connection to my inner world.

Read more about how I support women at sea through ‘Sister-Ship’ here

I didn’t realise how deeply that disconnection ran until I sat in my first women’s circle. Inspired and curious, something shifted in me as I felt called to explore what it might mean to be in relationship with my menstrual cycle. 

In that moment, I decided to come off hormonal contraception and I began the journey to restore my cycle naturally. When my bleed returned, it felt like I was bleeding for the first time, only this time with reverence. My body felt lighter and clearer, like a veil had lifted. I knew that this journey was not just about healing my body, but to reclaim the wisdom I was never taught as a young woman.

I asked myself the same question I now hear so many women say - why had no one told me how wise, how powerful, how deeply intelligent it is to live in a woman’s body? I felt so empowered to learn more and to share. Over the last six years, through a devoted practice of cycle awareness and living cyclically, I have learned to live in rhythm with myself and the Earth.

Empowerment begins with awareness ~ by coming into deeper relationship with your body, you learn to see yourself as a microcosm of nature and the larger cycles of life. With this knowing, our connections strengthen and our sense of being at home in our body and the world gains depth and meaning.

Just as there are no mistakes in nature, our menstrual cycle is part of a bigger intelligent design. No one part of our menstrual cycle is a weakness.

The more we start to explore and understand our inner landscape, then we can really begin to witness it from a place of reverence and awe.

My dream is to live in a world where we all acknowledge, honour and celebrate the cycles of womb life, along with the different transitions that women move through in a lifetime (menarche, birth, menopause and beyond).

This work has truly changed and shaped me in the most meaningful ways. A passion that has emerged as my life’s work, because this remembering, this returning, belongs to all of us.