YESYESYESYESYES. I always had that attitude, as well. I’d get very depressed and angry (no surprise, the way I suppressed my emotions all month long), and I have mostly had blinding pain during my period — to the point of being nonfunctional for one day a month — and I dreaded it all and gritted my teeth and fought the experience and just wanted it to be over, blah blah blah.

I wonder now how I would have fared had I felt more allowed to fully experience my period. No hiding it. No shame. No assumption that it’s an inconvenience. I’m more at peace now with my period than I ever was and I believe that is because I’m so aware that it will be gone very soon. I now see it as precious and I don’t want to miss a moment of it.

I wish we lived in a world that taught us to live with all the ups and downs of it — and one that allowed us to adjust for that. ❤

And I’m hoping menopause is the ULTIMATE real, the ULTIMATE time when the masks drop. I can’t wait.