# What is Menstrual Cycle Awareness? ##### Menstrual Cycle Awareness for Perimenopause --- ![[Pasted image 20261024191103.png]] --- ## TL;DR - Menstrual cycle awareness is not just about your periods. - It’s about being aware of how your cycle affects you every day, from one bleed to the next. - It’s understanding the shifts in energy, mood, motivation, behaviours and physical symptoms. - It’s about creating a deeper connection with your body, its strengths, vulnerabilities and needs in each phase. --- ## Transcript Before we move on, there are a few things we need to clarify. OK, so, first: what is menstrual cycle awareness? So menstrual cycle awareness is not just about your periods. OK, your periods are an important part of it, of course, but it’s not just about your periods. It’s about being aware of how your menstrual cycle affects you every day of your cycle. OK, so from the first bleed all the way through to the next bleed every single day. And it’s understanding the subtle shifts and maybe not so subtle shifts in energy and mood and motivation and behaviours. And, of course, physical symptoms. Yes, but it is more than physical symptoms. You know, it’s creating a deeper connection with your body, with its natural rhythms, strengths, vulnerabilities and needs in each phase or in a season. So that’s a bit about what menstrual cycle awareness is.