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“Prior to understanding this way of thinking about my body, I dreaded being premenstrual,” she says.Īnastasia Carlson, 48, from Perth, who has seen My Greatest Period Ever twice and introduced her daughter to Peach’s teen-friendly talk on the menstrual cycle, How to Period Like a Unicorn, says it has been a positive eye-opener for the whole family. It’s a life hack, a way to harness each cycle for the energetic days and forgive herself for the days when she’s less inclined to over-achieve or kick goals. These hormonal ebbs and flows have given her and others a language to help understand and communicate why they may feel a certain way at a certain time. As your oestrogen levels increase, you enter the “do” phase: “Time to step up and step into your big power and go for it. Starting from the first day of your period, “when all your hormones have flatlined, it’s time to really think about what you want to grow and give life to next”, she says. She breaks down the four weeks into four phases, which she calls “dream”, “do”, “give” and “take”. Peach is taking a holistic approach to the menstrual cycle.
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Around the ovulation phase, some people say they feel a little more aroused at that time.”Īnd in the progesterone phase, after ovulation, a sense of fragility is not uncommon: “You can feel a bit moody, cranky, depressed, and some people have cravings and headaches.”
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Peach tracked her hormonal changes for a year, which she used in her songwriting for her show My Greatest Period Ever (coming to Sydney for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on 4 April.ĭr Rebecca Deans, a gynaecologist at the Royal Hospital for Women, in Sydney, Sydney Children’s hospital, Randwick, and the University of New South Wales, says: “At the beginning there’s a lot more oestrogen and lower progesterone and that can give different characteristics to how you may feel. Peach was inspired to look at her menstrual cycle more acutely after reading a book called The Optimised Woman – Using Your Menstrual Cycle to Achieve Success and Fulfilment, by Miranda Gray.