How to Adapt Your Work-Life Balance to Your Menstrual Cycle

The most important step for the female entrepreneur in order to honor her own authentic natural flow and menstrual cycle is actually to develop an awareness of the menstrual cycle, meaning to know exactly in which phase of the menstrual cycle she’s in. And by knowing this, she will be able to optimize and use completely the superpowers of each of different phases, because each of the different menstrual phase has its own superpowers and challenges. I always give example with menstrual phase, which probably is the most problematic phase for most women and most women do experience a lot of challenges. I recommend, for example, women to not expect high peak energy or to achieve big goals at that time because the very same hormones that are actually helping us to have peak experiences are their lowest points. So the same way, as I explained before, that women are very much mirroring the natural cycles. These changes can be used for our own benefit while we are managing our plans. We schedule our activities and we can really plan according to the super power of that respective phase we’re in. But as I said, the first step is definitely to create an awareness of our menstrual cycle and knowing this rise and peak can give us a lot of freedom and release of guilt and shame in terms of when we are productive and when we are not and to accept our own bodies and to flow with the energy of our bodies so we can actually achieve our results and we can without the burnout. So when it comes to the work life balance, particularly in the female experience, I would like to point to a word that is very trendy and that word is sustainability. Sustainability literally means an ability to sustain a project for a long period of time without exhausting resources and being able to renew and rejuvenate during this process. So when it comes to the big master of sustainability, this would be nature. We see nature as a complete master of rejuvenation and renewal. Being able to provide resources or constantly year by year and still without exhausting its own resources. So in that sense, this blueprint of sustainability is very much embedded also in the menstrual cycle of a woman where if she’s conscious and following these steps very much connected with the natural cycles, she will be able to sustain her own work-life balance intact, knowing when she can push and she can really use our energy at its peak and when she can withdraw and rejuvenate and rest, in that sense, she will always be able to move forward with her life in a very successful way. And yet not feeling burnout, which is so much prevalent in our society due to the high expectations of constant productivity, which is not a natural way of living, not in nature and not in the female body. So that is definitely helping a woman to have this awareness of the natural cycles in her menstrual cycle, to keep the sustainability of her energy and thoughts to create a work life balance.