Simple Self-Care Tips for the ‘Inner Spring’ Season of your Menstrual Cycle

Energy levels, exercise and the energetics of food

In this previous newsletter, we explored the four seasons of the menstrual cycle and how our perspective on life can change through the different seasons. Then we looked a little deeper into the inner season of winter in this edition, exploring simple self-care tips through exercise, stimulation, food energetics and your intuition.

It’s not spring here yet in the northern hemisphere, however, today, I’m sharing a few simple self-care tips for the inner spring,¹ season of your menstrual cycle which follows the winter of menstruation. This season is part of the Follicular Phase: the time between day 1 of your period and ovulation when oestrogen levels rise as an egg is prepared for release.

If we observe nature during the outer season of spring, there is one word that encapsulates what’s happening succinctly:

Emergence.

During the inner spring of your cycle, as you move out of the winter of menstruation, you are emerging into spring. There's an awakening. A rising of energy, which you might have already noticed happening in the second half of your period.

This is when you might feel like you’re starting to come back ‘online’, with a renewed sense of clarity and purpose, that is if you’ve taken the time to rest during your menstrual phase.

Read on for some simple self-care tips and what to be mindful of during your inner spring.