{"id":1706,"date":"2017-03-04T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T03:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natural-womanhood.local\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2024-04-02T19:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:32:39","slug":"reconectar-a-las-mujeres-con-sus-ciclos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalwomanhood.org\/es\/reconnecting-women-with-their-cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconectar a las mujeres con sus ciclos"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be\u00a0hard\u00a0for a man to know exactly what it\u2019s like for a woman to be disconnected from\u00a0her natural cycle when she\u2019s on the pill. The only comparison\u00a0I can\u00a0think of would be how I have felt being on certain medical drugs that\u00a0affected my\u00a0mental alertness, and came with side effects such as low libido, nausea, weight gain, etc…But I can imagine and empathize based on countless reports I read.<\/p>\n

One thing I hear over and over from women who get off the pill and learn fertility awareness methods (FAM) is the sense of empowerment they gain from the change.<\/p>\n

Here is Katy Bicknell<\/a>, the co-founder of Kindara: \u201c[Charting] has given me such a feeling of calm, confidence. I really own my life now because I have control over when or if I have children.”<\/p>\n

Natural Cycles, the app we discussed recently<\/a>, write on their website that their mission is to \u201cempower every woman worldwide with knowledge about her body, menstrual cycle and fertility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women who get off the pill also acknowledge a major change in that regard. Holly Grigg-Spall\u2019s book Sweetening the Pill<\/em> is rich in testimonies from such women:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emotional changes I felt when I came off the pill were huge, I would go so far as to say life changing. That is how I would describe the experience of coming off the pill – an awakening.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI knew who I was on the pill and I didn\u2019t know whom I\u2019d be if I came off. . . . My pre-pill years were a long time ago. I had started on it before I even had an idea of who I might be; back when I was still physically and mentally coming into form as a young woman.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI took the pill for 20 years. When I came off it, I realized I was a completely different person to who I\u2019d thought.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

How the pill disconnects women from themselves<\/h2>\n

Here is how\u00a0hormonal contraception works<\/a> in a woman’s body\u00a0in a way that can affect the connection to her true self:<\/p>\n