Mandy Adams - Menstruality Mentor

15/10/2020

I took Bethany Webster's 'Healing the Mother Wound' online training five years ago and in processing the deep grief of losing my sister it has opened me to re-visiting my deeper grief of the emotional abandoment I experienced as a child. In this new blog post I share from her below she articulates the meaning of sovereignty...

"Sovereignty is about no longer depending on external approval but on finding the INTERNAL RESOURCES we need to own our power and take wise action on our own behalf and on behalf of all life. The power we seek already lives inside of us and it’s something we can claim, tap into and cultivate at any moment. As women, we need to do our own inner work but we can’t do this alone."

This sovereign woman is who I have experienced meeting at menstruation, birthing my sons and now more prevalently in my menopause. She is the one who 'feels everything' in order to birth new life. I have found that in actually 'feeling' my grief, anger and terror (that I wasn't safe to allow as a child) I am more able to hold my sovereign self. During these uncertain times when outer leadership is unclear and attempting to dominate my inner feeling I am meeting a deeply healing and insightful inner journey for me to stand in the gifts that I can bring to support others to do the same.

I am here offering my Menstruality Mentoring sessions to support/ witness / hold / mirror and meet YOU in your stepping into your sovereignty alongside me and drawing from the deep well of our pain / wounding to stand up for our own lives and all life on our beautiful Earth xx Get in touch if you'd like me to walk beside you in bringing home your medicine you can read more about my work here:
https://mandyadams.co.uk/menstruality-mentoring/

https://www.bethanywebster.com/what-is-sovereignty-13-elements/?inf_contact_key=949b809c59957e84cee7e9208919e047

A Menstruality Mentoring session with me engages with and supports you in the unfolding of your own unique menstruality journey, leading you back Home to find your Medicine. Menstruality is a woman’s inner Intelligence or organising principle leading her Home, to herSelf. It is a path that unfolds...

07/10/2020

My experience of lockdown blogpost...Back From the Edge...when all support got stripped away and I am left holding the frightened girl inside of me. As I step back into my life and work what is paramount is that I'm no longer willing to abandon myself xx

As I look back at the past six months and the repeated shocks that Life has offered me I could never have imagined such a personally challenging time. A worldwide pandemic, school closure’s, homeschooling our three sons (the youngest of which is autistic and requires 1 to 1 support), the sudden de...

05/10/2020

All set up in my new home to begin my menstruality mentoring work again online tomorrow. When women book an hour online session via zoom I ask the questions below to begin to build the container for this transformational work together. It is my belief that when we can begin to see how we were met as women at each of the rites of passage in our lives then we can then begin to truly meet and hold ourselves in our fast changing world. Seeing our own unique patterning and the pain it causes us (and those around us) to habitually abandon ourselves is what I feel is being asked so urgently of us all right now. Menstruality Mentoring sessions with me provide space to hold, process and feel the direction that our Life has always been leading us. Together fostering courage to at last acknowledge our gifts and to stand in our unique medicine...

Please go to https://mandyadams.co.uk/menstruality-mentoring/ for bookings and more information...

Where were you born?*
Please also tell me what you know about how you were born, who was present and the circumstances surrounding how you were met?

What was your experience of your first bleed (menarche) like?*
Were you sufficiently supported, informed? Was it celebrated in any way? Were there any stressful circumstances going on around you? What did you you tell yourself about becoming a woman?

What is / was your experience of your menstrual cycle?*
Describe your experience of your menstrual cycle, as best you can, in all its phases (Preovulation, Ovulation, Premenstruum, Menstruation). Include feelings, energy levels, and any physical symptoms.

Have you ever used hormonal contraception?*
(e.g. the Pill, Mirena or copper coil, patches, injections, or implants) and if so when and for how long?

How do you look after yourself during your menstruation?*

At what age did you encounter your first experience of sexual meeting?*
Can you share some of the feelings you had around this?

How many pregnancies have you had (including mis-carriages)?*
Please include the name(s) and age(s) of children if any.

What is your experience of peri-menopause / menopause?*
If you have not yet reached this phase please share what you have witnessed in your Mother's, Grandmothers, or significant mature women you have been influenced by.

Do you have an aim / intention for these sessions?*

What motivated you to work with me?*
Anything else?
Is there anything else that you think it would be helpful for me to know about you? Any life challenges present or past?

01/10/2020

Now sent my first eNewsletter for 6 months to say I've been waiting for the moment to feel ready to begin a phased return to my work and am pleased to say that I will starting my menstruality mentoring again next week.

I will be working via Zoom on a Tuesday and a Thursday at either 11am or 1.30pm UK time starting from the 6th October. Sessions cost £70 per hour or are reduced to £60 when booked in a block of four.

I am here holding space for you to meet yourSelf as we are each finding our 'new-normal' in our fast changing world. Vulnerable, honest and alive...no longer searching for leadership outside of our own knowing...stepping into our unique and magical medicine. The form is menstruality mentoring where I walk beside you to re-establish trust in your own inner knowing.

I believe it has never been more urgent to rely on our instincts to carve a new path for ourselves, for her families, for our Earth...

Please get in touch if you are longing to be seen, met and heard in your naked truth.

I have been waiting for the moment to feel ready to begin a phased return to my work and am pleased to say that I will starting my menstruality mentoring again next week.

30/06/2020

Dear all who follow my work as a Menstruality Mentor here. As many of you will be aware my sister (Rose) has suddenly and unexpectedly died. I am mourning her loss. I am also moving our family home this week. At the same time as moving my 85 year old Mother to be with us and packing up my birth home. As such I have decided to wait until September when my 3 young sons are expected to return to school before recommencing my classes, mentoring, days-in-circle and workshops. I warmly look forward to finding my 'new normal' in the months to come. Wishing all here courage as you face your own inevitable grief, fear and anger alongside me. May we each find a renewed joy from our roots up when we have the good grace to be together again. With warmest love to all...Mandy xx

03/05/2020

Beltane blessings and warmest love for the start of summer to all here. This beautiful poem speaks about the potential available to us all at this worldwide unprecedented time

20/04/2020

Have you noticed how lockdown is bringing deep inner-autumn and winter vibes to the whole world? How’s this playing into your cycle?

We feel like our time is now because we are experts on inner-autumn and winter, seasons that are just totally unpopular out there in the positiva world because they force us into our truth. This can be very uncomfortable both for us and for the world!

Luckily the marvelous Red School Menstruality Mentors have online programs and 1-2-1’s to hold you while we weather the storm and eventually, navigate our spring re-entry into the world.

Group coaching is an accessible option and Lisa de Jong of Your Cycle Matters - Lisa de Jong is offering Menstrual Cycle Awareness Process Work starting on 12th April. Calls are on 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month at 10am GMT+1 (Dublin Time) and you can join/leave at any time. It’s an online space for group-oriented process work for anyone interested in deepening their practice of Menstrual Cycle Awareness.
Details https://www.yourcyclematters.com/group-coaching

If 1-2-1 is more your thing, then we have that too. Anne Bonsall offers Menstruality Coaching & Mentoring to support you to get to know and embrace the rhythm of your menstrual cycle, illuminating the path to wellbeing for those going through life transitions, and holding space for everything in-between. Anne says “As your coach I will fiercely and compassionately stand beside you to help you restore balance and discover your soul's calling whilst deeply honouring your body's wisdom.”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-bonsall-37204618a/
Register by emailing Anne on bonsall.red@gmail.com

Mandy Adams - Menstruality Mentor is another experienced mentor offering Menstruality Mentoring ‘to welcome you back home to your cyclical nature in times of change as we meet this global rite of passage’. Available Mon- Fri 10am and 1pm
Booking and details are on https://mandyadams.co.uk/menstruality-mentoring/

If you are looking to deepen your inner journey through pregnancy, Tessa Sanderson of Pearls of Birth Wisdom is the woman to go to for 1-2-1 Menstrual Medicine Circles. Details are here www.cyclicalwisdom.com/medicinecircle

Leora Leboff of Aura Mama is a Menstruality Mentor using EFT and Medicine CIrcles. She’s available in the spring and summer of her cycle for girls crossing to womanhood, menstruating women and those in menopause and beyond. She says “It’s a joy to provide women a space for nurture, sanctuary, and exploration, as these life journeys are traversed.”
Contact Leora here http://auramama.co.uk/contact/

26/03/2020

Dear all who follow my page here I am writing as the Covid-19 pandemic touches the lives of us all here in the UK. My three sons are now off school, my husband is working from home and we as a family are self-isolating for the foreseeable future. In one short week the lives of everyone I know has rapidly changed as we meet these challenging and devastating world circumstances.

We are facing a difficult time and for many a time of crisis, hardship, stress and loss. I want to name and honour the fear and anxiety that can arise when everything seems to be breaking down and falling apart.

For the foreseeable future I am unable to teach my yoga classes, offer my workshops or run my circles. It is now more than ever that we need to sustain our connection to our inner guidance and come home to the Lifeforce that expresses itself through our female bodies. Last week (just before my sons schools closed!) I recorded a Well Woman Yoga class and a Pregnancy Yoga class. I offer them to you for free to support your immunity and as a way to continue my classes at home, or perhaps to now begin. Each is an hour long and is best (if possible) practiced undisturbed to access the para-sympathetic nervous system enabling rest and digestion of all we are each coming to terms with.

Wishing you and your extended families safety and love x

I recorded this video hoping that it may be useful for you at home, during this uncertain, changing time. It’s an hour in length and I run a full well woman yoga session, so I suggest that you try to ensure you have a quiet space for that time, a couple of pillows, a yoga …

20/03/2020

May it be so for all living beings who breathe together and co-exist as part of our beautiful Earth ###

20/03/2020

Spring Equinox Blessings to all here at this unusual and unprecedented time. I am daily watching my thoughts and consciously choosing what I read and align myself with. This piece below offers hope and understanding of the balance that the Earth Equinox’s offer us...AND the wider context of global balance that perhaps this pandemic is offering to us all. Warmly with LOVE to all reading xx

If we fail to understand and care for nature, it can rear up in devastating and unpredictable ways.

16/03/2020

I was part of a circle of fellow yogis this weekend and naturally the topic discussed was the corona virus. Between us we decided to put our energy towards what this world pandemic could positively create. I know that when I am in fear my stress levels rise and as a consequence my immunity decreases. I believe that it is not only vital for my health to chose to focus on ‘possibility’ but also for those that I love and care for because how I feel affects them deeply too. In all this uncertainty I trust that self responsibility, kindness and community will be what will come to the fore. Then my husband shared this article with me from a renowned American trend forecaster which I offer below. Hoping that through facing what is to come our Earth may just receive the critical turning point in our collective consciousness to take responsibility for our global wellbeing over our cultural distraction of productivity and profit. Sending LOVE to all reading xx

The coronavirus epidemic will lead to "a global recession of a magnitude that has not been experienced before" but will eventually allow humanity to reset its values, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort.

09/03/2020

In support of International Womens Day yesterday I held an interactive talk at Falmouth library about how retreating at menstruation supports womens mental health. I was very moved by the women who shared their experiences and feel even move passionate about bringing my work as a menstruality mentor to an even wider audience. In my hometown here in Hayle every Tuesday evening from 8-9.30pm I offer my Well Woman Yoga classes which provide a weekly opportunity to deeply listen to your body and come into relationship with your unique cyclical nature. Please do come along and find out what a yoga class feels like that honours all it means to be a Well Woman xx Further details and booking your place can be found on this page of my website below...

During my well woman yoga classes there is a heavy emphasis on practices that tone and balance the organs and glands within the pelvic bowl. This area is considered to be the seat of a women’s vitality and my classes nourish the uniqueness that each woman’s menstrual cycle offers her – alongsi...

03/03/2020

This fantastic FREE festival starts in Falmouth tomorrow. Benow is Cornish for 'female' and there are so many fantastic speakers and events happening over the next 5 days. Take a look below and if your not already booked onto my interactive talk on Saturday 'Retreating at Menstruation - Supporting Womens Mental Health' from 3.30-5.30pm then you can reserve your place by clicking on 'Saturday' below xx

22/02/2020

This year the youngest of my three son's has started school and I am feeling the pull to endeavour to express more clearly why I am so passionate about living with cyclical awareness. If you are a Facebook user you will have noticed that I have changed my Red Tent Cornwall FB page to 'Mandy Adams - Menstruality Mentor' to better reflect all that I offer.
If you have worked with me over the years would you be willing to write a review of your experience on my page if you haven't already? It's very simple just follow the link below and press the tab on the left hand side of my page underneath 'contact us' it says do you recommend 'Mandy Adams - Menstruality Mentor'. Then it gives an option to say 'yes' or 'no' and to write a few words about your experience of working with me. It helps so much for other women to understand my work through another women's experience. Thankyou for considering taking a moment to do this xx
https://www.facebook.com/mandyadamsmenstrualitymentor/

This page has been created through my work as a menstruality mentor at www.mandyadams.co.uk

22/02/2020

eNewletter gone out today to all on my Mandy Adams - Menstruality Mentor database...click below to have a read and sign yourself up if your not already xx

As Life emerges from Her deep Winter's rest and we observe nature waking up all around us. Do you feel the compulsion to follow your more playful / spontanious inner  maiden / lover aspect of your psyche? Do you notice yourself wishing that you could follow the lead of your inner life on a more re...

13/02/2020

Dear women and men here I am speaking at Falmouth Library as part of their Benow Festival on Saturday 7th March from 3.30-5.30pm. It is a FREE interactive talk which has limited places so if you would like to come along with your partners, brothers, sons, nephews, friends or simply by yourself to hear why retreating at menstruation supports women's mental health book yourself in below xx

Supporting women's mental health (for women and men) with Mandy Adams

08/02/2020

Sunlight streaming through the windows today blessing the inner work of the brave women who came to my Spring Red Tent Cornwall Day-in-Circle today. I feel so full of hope that these women will feel fortified and renewed enough to trust in their instinctive selves again. Knowing that their deeply feeling, vulnerable and therefore softly powerful voices are SO dearly needed in our world xx

07/02/2020

Well researched article which offers me hope that we can collectively change our culture in my son’s lifetimes xx

Psychologists such as Jordan Peterson argue patriarchal society is the ‘natural order’, but it is a relatively new development, writes Gaia Vince