When we’re young girl’s going through puberty we learn to stay silent.
I got my first period on a camp sleepover.
I was 10 years old.
I woke up and thought I was dying.
I saw blood.
Later, my mom told me what that was.
I was “a woman”. It sounded like a threat.
All I can say is, no one but my mom cared about my first experience, and no one but my mom cares about my second experience. Really cares that is.
Cut to 40 years later, I’m going through menopause. The taking back of what I went through so many years before.
I mention that my bones are literal radiators, that I can’t sleep, that I have this floating RAGE and extreme anxiety and it’s like…. I’m sorry…. And that’s it.
Like, I mentioned it once, It’s been acknowledged now move on.
Let me tell you, it’s FUCKING CONSTANT AND LASTS 12 MONTHS.
It’s a real thing that women go through and is not at all respected.
By women I mean owners of a uterus.
I’m in my warrior era and I’m cut down by my own hormones.
It doesn’t stop me from being a leader in my industry, It doesn’t stop me from thinking clearly, it just means I need to go through what I’m going through. And it actually sucks.
Return to your regular programming!!