Fernanda Ribeiro Holistic

The first phase of our cycle menstruation brings us the feeling of winter days. The days are darker for us, where the earth needs to rest and regenerate the energy necessary so that the seed can grow and provide us our need until next harvest season (summer). Thus, it happens with the phases of our cycle, metaphorically we are aligned with the winter season, where we invited to enter our cave and reflect on what we will take with us generate and harvest in the next cycle.
Don’t rush to get everything done at this time. It’s time to get you questions answered and clean the debris from the past cycle. It’s time to regenerate.

A primeira fase do nosso ciclo menstrual nos traz a sensação de dias de inverno. Os dias são mais escuros para nós, onde a terra precisa descansar e regenerar a energia necessária para que a semente possa crescer e nos suprir nossas necessidades até a próxima época de colheita (verão). Assim, isso acontece com as fases do nosso ciclo, metaforicamente estamos alinhados com a temporada de inverno, onde convidamos a entrar em nossa caverna e refletir sobre o que levaremos conosco para gerar e colher no próximo ciclo.

Não se apresse para fazer tudo neste momento. É hora de ter fazer perguntas e limpar os detritos do ciclo passado. É hora de se regenerar.

Day 1 bleeding.

The oestrogen is low progesterone is dropping, we are losing iron, that means, our body is claiming for resting.
Although we live in this society where us women are pressure to keep going regardless if we are bleeding or not we don’t pay attention to our body needs. As result, we feel pain, bloating, tired, loss concentration, and the list goes.

To keep us “on track” we rely on substance like coffee or iron supplement (unless it’s low), but it DOESN’T fix the problem, then sadly we ended up taking the pills 😔.

I don’t blame either or judge you, because the society we live in force us to do things ALL THE TIME, if we stop we feel guilt. Am I wrong?

I know some people have bills to pay (either do I), family to look after but slow down whenever you can, how?
- have a bath
- Take a day off if you can
- Ask husband to make the dinner these days
- Watch Netflix
- Avoid social encounters
- Eating nutrition food that support your iron loss (greens and reds is a perfect combination)
- Avoid or reduce caffeine
- Avoid processed food and sugar
- Walk barefoot (my favorite)
- Herbal tea like Nettle and raspberry leaf, ginger
- Adaptogenic herbs such as Withania, Licorice
- Journaling
- CRY, allow yourself to release your emotion

Once you start giving yourself the treatment you deserve during your bleeding time, you will see the symptoms fading away or reducing.

Of course, if it is too intense and you don’t know how to manage it yourself always ask advice from a qualified professional.
I am a naturopath that has been working for so long with my period and I can tell we need patience, self-compassion and willingness to make the changes.

Ps: this is me watching Netflix eating black bean with kale and beetroot and nutritional yeast on top.

New Moon sync with my Bleeding cycle - New Beginning ahead.

This is the beginning of a journey where I’ll face lots of transformations to make a difference in the world and the adjustments necessary to create a new life that reflect my true values.

This is the time when I return my sacred blood to the earth. I asked mother to transmute the fear I experienced in the past few days and courage to overcome all the expectation of our patriarchal society and break old belief that try to keep from becoming the wise woman I am meant to be.

This is the time to do the work with the help of my guides spirits to enter the last stage of the Triple Goddess with Grace. I Surrender.

Há uns 3 anos atrás eu tive o que eu conseiderei um dos piores momentos da minha vida, pois era meu aniversário e eu havia convidados algumas pessoas para jantarmos. Alguns deles não apareceram e outras chegaram já há poucos minutos de sairmos. Fora o serviço ao consumidor do restaurante que também não favoreceu muito.
Desde aquele dia eu chorei por uma semana, não era um choro de uma criança mimada como muitas vezes foram, era um choro dolorido e muito profundo. Naquele tempo eu não compreendi, mas hoje eu entendo que aquele choro era de uma ferida que havia sido tocada e despertou vários sentimentos adormecidos de crenças que foram criadas no passado. Nunca quis ir a fundo para entender sobre o assunto, apenas disse para mim mesma que nunca mais iria fazer festa de aniversario.
Anos passado por alguma razão senti no coração de fazer uma celebração. Até o dia da festa que tinha uma plano inicial totalmente diferente, eu passei por várias negações devido a pandemia, duque trouxeram crenças limitantes e etc. Por ter levado tanto na cara com expectativas e frustrações eu apenas não alimentava aqueles pensamentos limitantes e seguia o fluxo de uma maneira leve e sem expectativa.
Como resultado a festa aconteceu de uma maneira melhor do que eu imaginei. Eu me senti tão segura emocionalmente e mentalmente e feliz com todas as pessoas presente que hoje eu percebo que aquela experiência foi necessária, para curar e deixar ir embora o que ja não me servia mais. 💜

English/Portugues

I see many women talking about gender equality on the women’s day.
But how we can expect to be equal if we are so disconnected from our feminine essence.
We are constantly changing our bodies;
We are ashamed of own blood, the only blood that does not come from suffering
We criticise and judge other women;
We forgot the spirit of womanhood
We want to be in control all the time;
We don’t accept the natural chemical changes of our body
We always are looking to be perfect, to please this patriarchal society we live in.

We will start seeing the respect we really want when we:
Connect with our essence
Connect with our blood
Honour and accept the nature chemical changes in our body
Stop suppressing our emotions
Accept our vulnerability
Empower other women
Be Inspired by other women success
And LOVE our Mother Nature

I wish we all stand together in union, and even more we celebrate the success of our sisters and be inspired by them. Once we cheers other women beautiful things happen in our life. 💜💜💜

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Vejo muitas mulheres falando sobre igualdade de gênero no dia da mulher.
Mas como podemos esperar ser iguais se estamos tão desconectados da nossa essencia feminina.
Estamos constantemente mudando nossos corpos;
Temos vergonha do próprio sangue, o único sangue que não vem do sofrimento
Criticamos e julgamos outras mulheres;
Esquecemos o espírito da feminilidade
Queremos estar no controle o tempo todo;
Não aceitamos as mudanças químicas naturais do nosso corpo
Estamos sempre buscando ser perfeitos, para agradar essa sociedade patriarcal em que vivemos.

Começaremos a ver o respeito que realmente queremos quando:
Conecte-se com a nossa essência
Conecte-se com o nosso sangue
Honre e aceite as mudanças químicas da natureza em nosso corpo
Pare de reprimir nossas emoções
Aceite nossa vulnerabilidade
Empodere outras mulheres
Seja inspirado pelo sucesso de outras mulheres
E AME nossa mãe natureza

Desejo que todos estejamos juntos em união, e ainda mais celebremos o sucesso de nossas irmãs e nos inspiremos nelas. Uma vez que aplaudimos outras mulheres, coisas lindas acontecem em nossa vida. 💜💜

I'm starting to get convinced that EVERYTHING our society once told us was right isn't.
I’ve reading and hear few things that are triggered lots of uncomfortable emotions and the true is I am resisting to believe it is entirely true. F**k hell. When this is gonna stop? Or it even stops one day? Because it a bit painful.
I really don’t know, but here I go again facing the trigger, changing my mindset and breaking old society beliefs.
IGNORANCE IS BLISS.

Eu estou cada vez mais conhecida de que tudo o que a sociedade uma vez nos disse que eram verdade não são.
Eu tenho ouvido e visto algumas coisas que começaram a criar vários desconfortos, pq na realidade eu estou resistindo em acreditar que aquilo possa ser verdade.
Que m***a, será que uma dia ficar sabendo da verdade vai parar? Ou será que um dia isso termina.
Eu não sei, mas aqui vou eu de novo, enfrentar esses gatilhos, mudar o mindset e quebrar velhos paradigmas da sociedade.
Já dizia o velho ditado. Ignorância é bliss.

Menopause
✨It becomes common in my clinic practicing many post menopausal women complaining about the symptoms relate to menopause, but what is frustrating is the poor approach the conventional medicine provide towards women’s health in general.

✨It SHOULDN’T never be understood that is a forever suffering transitions that all women will experience not matter what. The true is, the conception of suffering was created by the patriarchal system that always wants to diminish the wildness power we carry in our wombs.

🌪The physiological changes will happens and we can’t fight against them, but we can be supported by professional that understand these changes and can support us accordingly. However, the most important of any passage is when us women are encouraged to embrace gracefully the natural changes in our wombs.

🔥Menstrual cycle, motherhoods, menopause are a rite of passage that brings connection to our power and awareness to heal wisely our wounds.

Photo: Pinterest

Before you let go.
Honour and be grateful for that part of your history that allowed you to become the person you are right now.
I’m thankful for the plant medicine that taught me once how the process is and yesterday I honoured with much love another part of my history that needed to go. My heart is light and shinning ❤️

Antes de deixar ir.
Honre e seja grato pela aquela parte da sua história que permitiu que você se tornasse a pessoa que você é hoje.

A planta medicina uma vez me ensinou como era o processo e ontem mais uma vez honrarei com muito amor no coração uma parte de minha história que precisava ir embora.
Meu coração está mais leve e brilhando🧡

Feeling alive connecting with that WILD powerful energy within me that the patriarchy society has tried to disconnect me from. That sacred energy that the patriarch society is afraid of.

I am back home. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Me sentindo mais viva do que nunca conectando com aquela energia selvagem que um dia a sociedade patriarcal tentou me desconectar. Aquela sagrada energia que o patriarca tem medo.

Eu finalmente voltei pra casa 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

The days prior our cycle we tend to experience feelings such as anxiety and sadness which during my academic journey i was taught it was a body functional imbalances known as PMS. Over time i understood that what we experience close to our period goes beyond physiological imbalances.

Ancient teaching explain that close to our period we tend to experience certain feelings because we become more sensitive and our intuition increase due to the influences of the moon (either new moon or full moon) in our psyche . No surprise that old wound tend to arise arise.

That the why menstrual cycle rite in many culture were considered sacred, because during this time when we are connected with our feminine instincts we can heal, growth, and create good things in our life.

Today in my private ritual, I returned my sacred blood to the earth to transmute past traumas from my linage and to connect my high self with the wisdom of the mother earth to guide me in this new chapter that is about to begin.

This ancient wisdom in connecting with the body makes me feel more connected to my essence, a part of me that I didn't know existed. Reclaim our connection to our body and break old believes is act to LOVE ourselves.

I feel more ALIVE than ever.

The Womb of Gaia
The Womb Consciousness of Mother Gaia. Coming home and rebirth again.
🦋✨🌸

Our primal feminine essence of the red river is wild, passionate, fiercely protective, magnetic, alluring, sensual, playful, and fearless without ANY shame.

The red river is a powerful essence that opens to the deepest wisdom, freedom, and power of Love. It is completely wild without boundaries that allows us to overcome any obstacle.

I encourage you to connect with this powerful energy that our society has forbidden, make us believe it was dirty and we should have shame of it in order to suppress our self-love; capacity to develop personal boundaries; overcoming sexual shame; patterns of self-sabotage and victimisation.

Our sacred 🩸 is the most powerful and holy of all blood fluids it guide us through our state of consciousness and the consciousness of our collective environment.

In the past our sisters ancestors used this this sacred blood in name of Love and Healing, and today I am here to reclaim this power that always belonged to me.

Inspired by the book Womb Awakening


Ps: I’m slowly coming back.

The herbs found in this blend are a great combination to alleviate the awful pain or to give an extra care to your body even if you are painless during the moon cycle

⚡️Cramp Bark - as the name suggest its used for reducing cramps and pelvic spams.

🌿🩸Nettle Leaf - has many benefits during menstrual period. It helps uterine blood circulation, reduce excess of blood loss, reduce water retention and contains chlorophyll, vitamin c and helps iron build up. Is important to women during reproductive time to increase consumption of food rich in iron to replace iron loss.

💜Lavender - the therapeutic benefits of Lavender go beyond calming the nervous system effects, studies have been showing that lavender has influence on general well being and quality of life.

🍃Raspberry leaf - is a fantastic traditionally used herb to strengthen the uterus muscle commonly used to minimise uterine spams during painful period.

This tea Lunar Cycle tea others blend tea are available in 30g and 50g. Link in Bio.

After the storm comes the calm.
Our challenges are just like a storm doesn’t last for long period sooner it disappear and calmness prevails.

Don’t distance yourself from Mother Nature ever. She is our everything 🌱🌱🌱🍃🍃🍃💚💚💚

Common complaint I see in the clinic. In this post, I want to share some of the causes that can affect iron levels.

- High levels of certain minerals (such as Zinc) in the body can inhibit the absorption of Iron.
- Chronic blood loss such as a peptic ulcer or another gastrointestinal disease.
-🩸Heavy Menstrual period
- Lack of iron in the diet
- Gut impermeability or leaky gut - damage in the gastrointestinal line can inhibit the proper absorption of iron.
stop taking the iron supplement when the symptoms improve

What to do:
* Taking supplements under professional advice.
* Treat gastrointestinal complaints and diseases accordingly. Seek a health professional immediately if you notice blood in the stools.
* Increase consumption of food rich in iron during the menstrual period, however, heavy periods is NOT NORMAL you may have an underlying condition that needs to be investigated.
* Support gut cells integrity - eliminate food allergies such as gluten is a good start, however, you need professional support to address possible infections and/or food allergies and to heal the gut’s cells line integrity.
* Increase consumption of a diet rich in Iron (beans, lentils, green leafy, spirulina etc)
* Iron supplement (prescribed)- If you were prescribed to take iron supplement make sure you take on an empty stomach because other minerals in food can compete with iron absorption such as Zinc. (there is in the market good bioavailability iron that does not cause nausea or constipation. Some patients may need intravenous iron)
* Your health professional should advise you to take iron supplement for at least 3 months in a row after diagnosis. Commonly, people stop taking the supplement when the symptoms stop, but this does not mean your iron levels is fine because the iron reserve can take 3-6 months to build up. After this period your health practitioner should request another iron studies test.

If this post is sound like you, I would love to help you through a holistic consultation to identify the root cause of your problem and to develop a personalised treatment plan.