Episode 26: Menstrual Health (with Jesica Medellin)

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Welcome back to our first episode of 2024! Today we are chatting with our first transatlantic guest, Texas-based creative author and body positivity advocate Jesica Medellin. Jesica is the author of the beautiful anthology First Moon Manual: Letters to Our Daughters which is aimed at young women starting their menstrual cycles and those who love and support them. As mums of girls that age ourselves we loved this chat but there is so much in Jesica's work which is of interest to anyone who experiences menstruation or who is navigating any hormonal shifts such as post-natal symptoms or menopause. We hope you find this chat as interesting and uplifting as we did.
Trigger warning: reference to pre-menstrual mental health issues including thoughts of suicide.
Order First Moon Manual in the UK here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Moon-Manual-Letters-Daughters/dp/B0B37KWV1B
Jesica's website (including links to order First Moon Manual in the US): https://www.jmmedellin.com/home
Jesica's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstmoonmanual/
NHS advice on menstruation: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/periods/period-problems/
Support for teenagers around menstruation: https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/you-your-body/puberty/periods/
PMDD support: https://iapmd.org/
Post-natal support: https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/

Menopause support: https://menopausesupport.co.uk/

Intro/Outro music: Motivational Day by Audio Coffee via Pixabay. Thanks for listening!