The Red Journal: Track Your Period, Sync with Your Cycle, and Unlock Your Monthly Superpowers Paperback – Day to Day Calendar, December 29, 2020

This is a beautifully important book that I plan to share with my daughters once they reach menstruation. While there are more thorough books about fertility charting, this one focuses on the emotional wholeness we can gain from observing and accepting our hormonal cycles. For example, after a few months of data, you may realize you are most irritable at a certain timeframe in your cycle and can pre-plan some alone time for your sanity (and your family's). The spiritually inclined may find certain correlations with astrology cycles (not just the moon). The things you can correlate are endless, as this is all about tuning into you and your unique experiences. I love how non-prescriptive the book is, and the author continuously reminds you that this journey is your own. As women, we are taught that so much about our bodies are shameful and that our emotional needs just don't make sense. This is a very deep wound and the root of why we shrink ourselves. We are cyclic beings forced into linear expectations. Realizing that there's some natural rhythm to my emotional needs has been so validating. I am not "too much," I am normal. My needs change and fluctuate, and not because I have unfair standards, but because I have a rich and changing lived experience. This book will make your husband's life SO MUCH EASIER, too, because what once seemed unpredictable and mysterious to you both will now have a pretty hormonally measurable explanation. The most important of these, personally, has been the explanation for my sexual libido. I am a trauma survivor, which, coupled with the aforementioned shame I was taught surrounding my body, and the denial of illogical, fluctuating needs, I never learned how to build a sex life that nurtured me. I never had the words to communicate to my husband why I seemed to go through phases of hard, simple lust, then phases of soft, emotional eros, then phases of "do not f***ing touch me." I internalized this as something broken within me and that it was impossible to communicate clear boundaries without feeling inconsistent and inauthentic; I just had to martyr through my aftercare emotional roller coaster. Now it is SO clear when and why my libido is going to change during my cycle. Now I don't have to peak at a contradictory breakdown and say things like, "I don't want to be touched ever again," because instead I can say, "I am in X phase of my cycle, and I will most likely feel this way for the next X days." This has revolutionized the expectations I put on myself about sex. This book is your permission slip to experience your fullness and your depth. You are not a stagnant being. You are rich and growing and changing. You are not broken. You are a cyclic woman. And it all makes sense.

Learning to chart your cycle is key for wellness. This journal explains everything you need to know to start charting your cycle.

Nice journal, only thing I don’t like is that I don’t find it easy to use. It doesn’t fold over nicely when filling out the chart, it’s be great if it was a spiral journal to open wider and I find myselfNot using it for that reason. May seem silly, but functionality is just not good to me.I think if it were designed differently I’d have gotten more usage out of it.

I love this book! It has some great information in it and I love the tracking system. Do don’t like how stiff the spine is though, it makes it difficult to write in

The media could not be loaded. I'm still reading the introduction on page 35 and I'm already crying of happiness because the author speaking a woman language I finally identify with !! I had two etopic pregnancy one when I was 19 and the second at 27, before of any of this, I had a full healthy pregnancy at the age of 18, sadly I faced does etopic pregnancy over the course of years and I was left sterile at the age of 27 with just one son! I'm grateful today of many things but now I'm 36 years old and I was left with early menopause!! My cycle had been making me insane and the fact I can't procreate and my cycle was so freaking strong and crazy and unstable I was losing my mind literally losing it and the whole world around me was a challenge every single days !! Relationship, work, myself!! I was falling apart and I stared to be in a very dark hole of depression and anxiety!! this past June I had the most crazy cycle i ever had and I'm getting an appointment with my doctor but I needed more then that as well, I find this book ! It is exactly what i needed to make peace and love with my whole body and life !! Thank you Lisa 😊