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Celebrate Your Femininity
by Karen Rumler of Lil' Blue Goose™
Remember becoming a woman? For some of us we were younger, for others we were older. Unfortunately, for many of us, our period wasn't embraced with an excited welcome. For some of us our period was even dreaded, often seen as a nuisance or an embarrassment, some even taught to hide it and not to discuss it. Then when we wanted to start a family, we again hoped to miss it that month, for that meant our anxious anticipation of being pregnant could be true! As we near menopause, it becomes a bittersweet farewell, as this is the end of a long and personal process that has enabled us as women to carry sustain and bring life in to the world. As we think of our daughters entering womanhood, we should help them to embrace this process with new and positive rites of passage. Make it a celebration, give your daughter flowers, recount the day she was born and present it as the wonderful part of becoming a women that it is. Let us show our daughters that our menstrual cycles are a beautiful part of the cycle of life and the potential to create new life in the future! If we all could see our periods as a circle of life process to be proud of, we as women could hold our heads up high at the first sign of womanhood. Our Period!
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