Period Queen: Life hack your cycle and own your power all month long

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'This will start a revolution for women.' CONSTANCE HALL As young girls, most of us were given the talk about how to manage our periods. It's the beginning of a tedious bloody grind, one of the last great taboos. But the truth is, the menstrual cycle has benefits - big, fantastic, daily, monthly, even lifelong, benefits. Every month, you have four hormonal phases that keep coming around. Each phase bears its own gifts and ways of making us feel: a time to dream, a time to do, a time to give and a time to take. Once you know what these phases are, you can predict them, plan for them and use them over and over again. In fact, harnessing your period superpowers will make you unstoppable (until you choose to stop, that is). Period Queen takes the worst thing about being a woman and turns it into the best thing. Author and period preacher Lucy Peach urges us to stop treating periods like nature's consolation prize for being a woman, banishing the notion that hormones reduce us to being random emotional rollercoasters. Become an expert in recognising what you need at different times of the month and learn how every cycle gives you a chance to cultivate the most important relationship of your life: the one with your precious self. It's pretty bloody amazing.

Lucy Peach is a performing artist, menstrual coach, speaker and consultant, working with individuals, schools and corporations to empower through menstrual education. She has worked as a human biology teacher and sexual health educator and has a Bachelor of Science in human biology and biomedicine with Honours in medicine, and a Graduate Diploma of Education in human biology. Visit lucypeach.com for more information.

'This will start a revolution for women. Never have I read anything like this. It left me feeling like I'd been whispered some ancient knowledge by a long-dead matriarch and that I've been giggling with a best friend all at the same time.' CONSTANCE HALL