Not sure where to begin?
You’re here because your body’s been whispering (or maybe shouting), and you’re finally ready to listen.
Welcome to Roots of Reproduction
Your safe, shame-free zone to reconnect with your cycle, decode your hormones, and finally feel at home in your body.
🩸 I want to understand my cycle
Feeling overwhelmed by cycle symptoms that seem to make no sense. You want to know what’s happening, when, and why — and how to work with your body instead of against it.
🪷 I’m feeling disconnected from my body
Ready to understand your hormonal rhythm on a deeper level. You're craving rhythm, rest, and a way to feel like you again.
👩👧 raising or mentoring girls/ Teens
You’re a parent, teacher, or guide who wants to pass down better. You weren’t taught this — but you’re ready to learn it so you can teach it differently.
🌱 What You’ll Find in This Space
Your Cycle Is a Guide—Let’s break it down
We believe your cycle isn’t something to fight and your body isn't against you—rather it's attempting to tell you it's needs. By meeting your body where it’s at, with compassion and curiosity, you gain tools to care for yourself in a way that feels informed and aligned.
Take a look around. It’s time to reconnect with your body!
How to Manage PMS, Mood Swings & Burnout by Working With Your Cycle
Ever feel like your mood is a mystery, your energy’s on shuffle, and your body’s just doing the most without…
Understanding PMS: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and How to Take Control
Because spiraling over chocolate and canceling plans again doesn’t have to be your normal. Sudden mood swings. Feeling like you've…
Learn How to Chart Your Menstrual Cycles
How to connect with your body through your data, without burning out or giving up. You don’t need to be…
Key Terms Used On This Site
- Body Literacy: The wisdom that comes from apprenticing ourselves to the nature of being human and living in a body.
- Puberty: The process of physical maturation where an adolescent reaches sexual maturity and becomes capable of reproduction; on average begins in females from ages 8 and 13 and in males from 9 and 14 (NIH).
- Menstrual Health: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in relation to the menstrual cycle (NIH).
- Reproductive Health: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes (World Health Org).
- Sexual Health: Requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships with the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence (World Health Org).
- Reproductive Justice: The human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities (Sister Song).
- Fertility Awareness: Body Literacy specific to the sexual and reproductive system. A lifestyle and body of knowledge that revolves around awareness of our hormonal cycle, fertility and sexuality.
- Cycle Charting: The daily practice of observing and recording our fertility bio-markers, including the first day and duration of period, the total length of our menstrual cycle and any menstrual symptoms.
- Fertility Awareness Method: A daily cycle charting practice that involves observation of fertility bio-markers and other signs of health.
- Fertility Awareness Based Methods: An umbrella term encompassing all variations of cycle charting practices available.
- Natural Family Planning: A term generally associated with religious variations of cycle tracking practices.
- Sympto-Thermal Method: An FABM based on daily observations of our cervical fluid and basal body temperature.
*Please note some of these terms are defined by Sarah Bly of The Well School of Body Literacy. You can read her definitions here.*
