“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.”

-- Henry Miller

Many of you may have seen the advertisements for a new birth control pill which reduces the number of withdrawal bleeds to four times per year, rather than the thirteen which occur with the traditional pill. In the advertisement, a woman in white twirls around as red dots, presumably representing her dreaded withdrawal bleeds, fly rapidly away from her. She looks happy, active and relieved.

The idea of menstrual suppression is not new. Millions of women have been suppressing their menstruation with the birth control pill since it was introduced to the public in the 1960s, even though most might well have been unaware that the pill stops both ovulation and menstruation since their withdrawal bleeds were intended to mimic their monthly periods.

Now, all pretense seems to be discarded, as women, en masse, are being sold the lie that menstruation is obsolete ... women are being persuaded to see menstruation as an evolutionary mistake that need only be endured when one wants to have a child.

What does it do to us when we are pushed to stop one of our fundamental bodily processes? We need to ponder why there is such a push to perceive our bodies as a disjointed collection of parts that can be modified or disciplined the way our menstruating bodies are today.

~ Megan Lalonde

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“It is really the body that holds the core truths of our lives, and not the conscious mind.”

-- Ingrid Bacci

“Liken yourself to a beautiful original part of creation -- a true work of art. Then each day ask yourself how you are living: either in ways that show gratitude for this beauty or in ways that indicate how you are defacing it.”

-- Robert J. Wicks