With a holistic approach, she guides her clients in aligning their lives with the ebb and flow of their menstrual cycle, embracing the wisdom of both the earth’s seasons and their own inner seasons. Rebecca’s expertise lies in helping women understand and honour their cyclical nature, promoting balance, well-being, and a deeper connection to themselves.
My journey of becoming a menstrual cycle coach and tapping into womb healing was very unexpected. I never thought this would become my career path! Through personal experience and witnessing how connecting back to my feminine was the missing piece to feeling fulfilled in my life, I started diving deeper into learning about the menstrual cycle and womb, realising that it was the missing piece for so many women.
A couple of years ago, I completely burnt myself out by overworking and constantly being in “survival mode.” I didn’t know what it meant to be a soft, well-rested woman. I didn’t see that as “successful” or “valuable.” I hit a wall and fell into a deep depression, not wanting to participate in life. Doing one task felt like running a marathon. I didn’t know how to get out until I stopped resisting and just let myself be.
I came across cycle tracking and dove deep into learning about the cyclical nature of a woman that we had all been taught to neglect. I took courses, read all the books, and immersed myself in learning about the womb—and life started to feel full again. I re-established a relationship with my body that brought me safety and, in that, joy.
Now I’m on a mission to remind as many women as possible of this innate wisdom.
What is Cyclical living and its benefits?
Cyclical living is when a woman comes back into sync with her innate inner rhythm. From a hormonal perspective, we have a 28-day (on average) hormonal cycle that has four different hormonal phases (Follicular, Ovulation, Luteal and Menstrual) that each have different hormone changes.
The first half of your cycle, our oestrogen is more dominant, making you more social and outward, feeling more courageous and confident, experiencing higher energy levels, and wanting to be immersed in the world. The second half, your progesterone is more dominant. This makes us feel more inward, feeling slower, experiencing lower energy levels, feeling more in touch with your inner emotional world, and needing more time in solitude.
With cyclical living, you start living with your cycle and its changes instead of against it. You learn to embrace these monthly changes, the different phases, and their needs or tasks. This creates less resistance and instead, more ease, alignment, grace, and compassion towards ourselves.
It is also the initiatory path to your power and freedom as a woman. Because your world is very masculine-driven and often praises more masculine traits such as doing, producing, and achieving, we often neglect our feminine qualities such as being, feeling, creating, which are just as valuable.
Bringing yourself back into alignment with our cycle means going at a pace that works for you versus the world. It means listening to your innate clock, your body, and supporting yourself in this way.
In return, you might find yourself having more regulated nervous systems, balanced hormones, easier periods, less mental strain or emotional hardships, and overall, just feeling the power of being a woman.
Within our monthly menstrual cycle, we have our four hormonal phases, which correlate to the qualities of the earth's seasons. These are considered our inner seasons.
Cycle day 1 is when you start your bleed—this is the menstrual phase or your inner winter. Our inner winter is all about slowing down, resting, hermiting, going inward, and allowing the end of a cycle (death) and the beginning of a new one (rebirth) . This is a great time to do nothing and allow yourself complete rest so you can immerse into this new cycle fully recharged.
Rebecca wears the Rooh Maxi in Cacao
Rebecca wears the Nora Mini in Primrose
Rebecca wears the Uma Maxi in White
Rebecca wears the Uma Maxi in Black
Next week in Part 2, we will keep exploring Women's Inner Seasons with Rebecca.
Imagery by @danicowanphotography and words by Rebecca Akat of Blume Womb.
Imagery by @danicowanphotography and words by Rebecca Akat of Blume Womb.
