I have been:
A portrait photographer
Remedial masseuse
Musician
Youth mentor and facilitator
Menstrual educator
These have taught me things about the human condition.

I now offer holistic education (a nature school building social/emotional literacy) and rites of passage programs honouring and celebrating puberty and periods through my business Wild Creative.

Since perimenopause laid me to waste I realised I knew nothing about the power inherent in this time of my life.
So I educated myself which allowed me a space to stand when my internal world went weeping and raging.
My daughter was entering the counterpoint to perimenopause - puberty.
I had to do something so she had a healthier relationship with her mind and body than my generation did.

I've been mentoring and facilitating kids and their mothers for almost a decade now and girls are still afraid of their periods and changing bodies.
Mothers fear how to talk to them about these topics because no one showed them how and they carry wounds from their own experience.
Our bodies in all their messy, human glory are still taboo.

This must change.

Bodywise A puberty and period guide was created because the next generation deserve to feel empowered and unashamed of their bodies natural processes.