Simple Self-Care Tips for the 'Inner Summer' Season of your Menstrual Cycle
Exercise, Emotional Care and Food Energetics
Previously, we have explored the dark and light inner seasons1 of the menstrual cycle and how our perspective on life can drastically change when we’re in these different seasons. We’ve looked at Simple Self-Care Tips for the Inner Winter of your Cycle and Simple Self-Care Tips for the Inner Spring of your Cycle.
Today, we’re exploring…yes, you guessed it, Simple Self-Care Tips for the Inner Summer of your Cycle!
While spring gently beckons us out of our winter slumber, summer calls us boldly out into the world with the fullness of our presence.
We haven’t yet arrived at the full bloom of outer summer here in northern Scotland, although, the sun has been shining all week long and I’m in the inner summer of my cycle as I write this. But I’ve felt the promise of the summer yet to unfold, through the remembrance of heat from the sun sinking into my skin this week – a relieving balm after a long winter.
Just as nature’s season of summer is considered the ‘high’ point of the year when the sun is strong and high in the sky, inner summer is considered the ‘peak’ of the whole menstrual cycle because this is when ovulation happens. Ovulation signals the most fertile time in the whole cycle – when energy is abundant and strong.
Let’s explore how to work with the energies of inner summer through some simple self-care tips for the season.