Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power Paperback – April 4, 2017

This book was the thing I’ve been searching for ever since I reunited with my cycle (went off hormonal birth control). For years, I’ve been searching for a spiritual connection, for self-understanding and for the deeper meaning of the delicate and amazing way of womanhood. After breaking barriers in sexuality, reuniting with my cycle was a clear next step into reclaiming womanhood.I’ve only began to track my hormone levels (using a fertility tracker), but have been tracking my cycle symptoms for months. I love data but I didn’t know what to do with it all. After finding Wild Power, it felt like I could compare this scientific knowledge with the unexplainable power of the infradian rhythm: the surges of ideas, the pitfalls of what felt like depression, the craving for something deeper, something richer, something ethereal.Although I just started keeping a cycle journal, I have referenced this book almost every day - understanding where I might be in the various ways the authors describe cycle stages. There is something for every woman in this book. Most importantly, it has shown me the beauty and power of the ways of the woman.

This is a must read - def for women but also men would appreciate this . To understand better the women you love

I’m a guy. I tell everyone about this book. The 5 stages of menstruation, I realized, are really the 5 stages of ANY initiation, be it a plant medicine journey or a pang of fear or social awkwardness that shows up out of the blue. Realizing how to be with those moments and times in my life has absolutely changed me.If you’re familiar with plant medicine journeys, then as a guy, you’re meant to read this book because you’re meant to be a guardian to the women in your life as they traverse the menstrual cycle journeys.This book made me want to HAVE a menstrual cycle! I want a monthly “deep downloads” conversation with God!I share this with any woman I can find, because the mission of helping women reclaim their divine spark, as the cycle is designed to do, is too, too, too, too important - for that woman herself, and for the world.

i'll definitely try and use some of the methods discussed ... some of the book was a little repetitive though but overall an interesting read

This book just goes another level beyond every other book about menstrual cycles and really explains the energetics behind different phases of the cycle. I've read a lot of books like this - but this one really stood out as having something quite profound to share.

I remember when my partner installed an app on my phone for tracking her cycle in 2015. At that time menstrual cycles weren't talked about in the mainstream. Move forward 9 years and a change in partners and a change of consciousness in our world. I remember my employer holding Zoom sessions during COVID for women to speak openly about what is happening in their lives and bodies. It led to changes in the workspace because they opened those rooms to men. You’ll learn a lot in a room like that if you keep an open mind and to understand how this can be used to hold someone back. The company didn’t back down when we returned to the office, adding in conversations about men and society ignoring men with chest (breast) cancer and the damage it causes to men’s bodies including loss of the usages of arms.Now we have this book to help us understand more about the menstrual cycle women experience. When I met my current I knew enough to help her and now she’s made me go through this book after I bought it for her. Guys chart yourself over 90 days and you’ll find your natural cycle then like women start tracking your 28 days cycle. This will change your life!As you go through this book, do the work and it will take time because there are no shortcuts. Yes, you have to do the work and it will change your life. Enjoy the journey and bring your current or later your future partner along for the journey!

The main reason I am so freaking thrilled with this book is that I now have a reason why I feel the way I do. I’m not someone who’s battled depression all her life as I’ve always believed (although at times, hell yes), but I am someone who has gone through an entire cycle of seasons in one month, each and every month and never realized what that meant. I always assumed hormones played a part in why I would start to feel that can-not-get-out-of-bed type of low, but I honestly thought more than anything I was fighting a lifelong battle of depression. Knowing that when I start to contract and retreat inward is more a sign that winter is coming (no, not that winter GOT fans) instead of a cycle of depression that is out of my control has given me so much enlightenment and peace. Instead of white-knuckling this rollercoaster, I know it’s time to light a fire, grab a good book, get cozy, and settle in. I now welcome the stillness. I embrace this opaque season and give way to caring for my needs without guilt or shame. Because I know in a week or so, spring will reappear, and I’ll slowly start to return from the shadows where I’ve cultivated enough energy to return to the task of tending to others once again.Now that I understand this cycle, fear no longer lords over it. Fear has been replaced by sweet acceptance, and I lay out the welcome mat for each season to come, stay for a bit, and then graciously walk it to the door and bid it farewell until next time.Wild Power has helped bring awareness to my femininity and masculinity that I hold in such revere. I’ve been working toward loving myself for a long time, and the information contained in the pages of this book has helped cultivate that love in a way I never thought possible.My only regret is not having found this book sooner. Although I console myself in the knowledge that timing is everything, I may not have had the ability to grasp such concepts before now.