Make the Most Out of the Phases of Your Cycle

Did you know that you're better at different things at different point in your cycle? How can you make the most out of each phase? That's what we're going to talk about today.
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[@emeliasoderlund]

This so resonates with me. *Working with your body - instead of against it - is the way.* Edit: Re-watching to take some notes :33

[@Lealpi1]

This is fascinating! Why is this not more common knowledge/discussion? I feel like this is going to make a HUGE difference in my life. Thank you so much, Victoria, for teaching me how to learn more about myself so I can look after myself and understand my body better. You are the best!!! x

[@jenquinne]

Loving the condensed version of this video! Putting this idea into practice has made a huge difference in my life! I use to work against my body, I felt like it was an inconvenience, one that I had to dominate, and force into line with my agenda. Now I work with my body and use its natural Rythm as a guidepost. I Enjoy all my tasks so much more now and my body is way happier.

[@annieoosthuizen8296]

Victoria! You’re the best. I started noticing how my moods would shift throughout my cycle before learning about the 4 phases from you. Knowing this now makes me feel a lot better. Especially when I feel introverted during my luteal phase or how I struggle to listen to others during my follicular phase😬 Our body’s are truly amazing, thank you for being a spokeswoman for them!

[@kayleighogut]

I used to be so great at intuitively understanding my phases. Then I moved to a new country (and got married) and my menses prolonged by three weeks. When it finally arrived it came in swinging! I'd spent years healing my cycles and now it felt like I had completely regressed. It's been almost a year and I am finally realizing that I've got to relearn this in order to give my body what it needs in this new circumstance. Your videos are very helpful. I watched the older ones too--wow have you grown and eased into the role you are serving! Thank you so much for your work and time.

[@persephone213]

I love this! I think in society we kind of feel the pressure to be “on” ALL the time when it really makes sense to go with the flow of our cycles and how we’re feeling instead of trying to fight it.

[@rachaelkibicho7461]

The accuracy is incredible, you unfolded the events of my most recent cycle and in the end made me well aware of my current location !

[@TheGennybean]

Love this video!! I love how rational and yet sensitive you are to female health and cycles. I'm signed up for the next chart your cycle and i cant wait to get off the pill and start properly listening to my body :)

[@HikeOregon]

For some reason I am super emotional in my follicular phase and then feeling super energized and gung-ho in my luteal phase. I was on the pill for 12 years and am just starting my second cycle off of it and I am loving listening to my body! I had the best period, less pain, less bleeding, it was awesome. Does anyone else experience “Mittelschmertz?” It hurts so bad :(

[@LuminousLibro]

This video gave me the courage to finally go see my doctor about some irregular things in my cycle that have been affecting my health. Thank you for this!

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

That's great that this video inspired you to go see the doc! Whoo hoo! I hope your cycle irregularity is being figured out!

[@courtneymfultstaylor]

This is so helpful, thank you so much Victoria.

[@tiamatwarda202]

Love it! I watch all of your videos, but haven't commented yet. You mentioned how you try to save the lengthy relationship-conversations for a fitting time in your cycle. I would love to hear more about that and how you keep your relationship healthy in general! Hugs from Germany

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

This is a great video I loved how you explained the ovulatory phase as the "networking phase". It makes so much sense! I'll remember this in my next ovulatory phase. Thank you!

[@robinhazard5570]

This was so helpful! It really laid everything out well so I can better understand the phases, the benefits that can come out of them and the imbalances to notice. I love knowing about the tools that we can use within our body, mind, and soul to become our best self! Especially the superpowers that us women carry!

[@babybluebabyblue]

this is so interesting thank you! i'll try to be more aware

[@GodHasBeenGracious]

Thanks for the video :) I wish I'd seen videos like this years ago, so my expectations of myself would be more realistic. What's helped me to understand this best is charting my underlying emotions alongside my temperature, cervical fluid, and cervical position on my chart. Seeing that so much of what I feel is tied to my physical body helps me know what to expect and better gauge my responses to life events.

[@MilleBothilde]

Yes!! Finally got to see the first 4 (old) videos some weeks ago, and loved them. But was curious if you still had the same perspective and knowledge about it now, and thought about writing to you for an updated version :) never got to write to you, but if came anyway, thank you!! 😃 and thank you for "holding my hand" and give me the courage to ditch the pill after many many year😣 love both your channel and the varieties of videos you make, such an inspiration ❤️ lots of positive vibe, from Millie (Denmark)

[@daniellemnvlogs]

Yes!!!! To everything! I try to save my creative and social work for right before I’m ovulating.

[@imaginativecreativeyou8890]

Such great information. Self-Care is very important.

[@livegreen6665]

I love your videos!!!

[@Gulfport05]

This is a very good very informative video thank you self care is important the better you know your body the better you can be as comfortable as possible thanks for the video

[@valeriafregei.8024]

You need to make “All that jazz” t-shirts!! 🙌🏼😍🤣 Love your videos, by the way! I’m a new listener and I’m pretty sure I binge watched 90% of your videos already. Thank you for sharing and empowering women! 💜

[@flowergirle9250]

That was such a spot on an accurate description of how it feels during the menstrual cycle by the way. 👍🏼 It makes me feel better about feeling not the spunkiest or most social during certain phases because well it’s just a phase that will soon pass.

[@AudreyCLord]

I love this! I've been meaning to read books about this topic and was in the process of watching your old video serie. Would you consider creating a blog post that summarizes this video? I'd like to print it as a resource!! Sending you love, beautiful light!

[@zgretute]

great video, thanks a lot for sharing :)

[@Gwyn142]

i loved this!!! spot on. thank you!!!!!!!!

[@riandrach]

THIS. IS. SO. GOOD.

[@honeyjam9593]

This makes so much sense. Recently I started tracking my period using Clue and I found out I felt kind of sad everytime before the period begins, and after the period I was feeling energized. It was a bit confusing at first, because I thought my period was the sad part and the rest was just, well, normal... This explains it so much! Thank you

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

It's so cool that you've found cyclical correlations that make sense in your body. It's all about knowing our body and making decisions on behalf of our femininity!

[@catalinadoerr7291]

Hi, i saw the 4 videos time ago, such an amazing information! but i have a doubt, which one is the creative phase, i thought it was the luteal phase, but in this video you said is the ovulating phase. I feel really creative on my luteal phase.. thanks fpr sharing the magicccccccc

[@maayans.181]

Everytime I'm like yayy my period is here! And then the day after I'm like a zombie (passed out a lot, got blood infus...) so even though i'm happy to get it - it's still very hard days for me. But at least it's once every 4-6 months (was even worse, it got better!)

[@flowergirle9250]

I just had the thought that the 4 seasons correlate with the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle: (1) Menstrual/Winter (2) Follicular/Spring (3) Ovulatory/ Summer (4) Luteal/Fall

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

Yep - this concept is also in the book "Four seasons in 4 weeks". It's a beautiful book.

[@laurenpappin284]

I like your board in the back and what it says😂

[@yellowbeachgirl]

Could you share or do you have any videos on tips for ttc? Thank you!

[@PettyBlue1]

I've been doing complete charts for only like 4 months, but some things are repeating at the same time. I get super emotional for a few days about one week before my period. This is also the time I tend to catch a cold if that happens. Yet this is not the most tired phase of my cycle. I find it hard to slow down because I get so many ideas of what I could do! But the first week after my period is always the most "meh", like I've lost my rhythm. Btw the best self care (for me) is taking walks, dressing up and going out :^D Idk I rarely feel my best just sitting at home

[@KingElvis3230]

4th what is your favorite period product to use and wear during your period love your videos about periods so I can know more about them and study your the best from your Awesome fan hunter

[@tvisha7572]

I understand that follicular is supposed to be one for planning and menstrual when u relax and ovulatory when u go all out and luteal when u bring things to a completion. This i think is relatively easier to do when you're a working person who is in charge of her work for example a businesswoman. She can schedule and reschedule her meetings and tours etc according to her phases. I find cycle syncing pretty challenging to accomplish as a student where we dont know when an exam would come up or when there would be any sports or other co curricular activities taking place. I obviously can't reschedule them according to my cycles. Any tips on how to cycle sync as a student?

[@missseveri3512]

When you have Endometriosis your periods can ruin your life... :-( I'm having my 3rd Endo excision surgery in a few days time so I should be less crippled for some time afterwards :-) .... Until it grows back again!

[@sanmiguel5866]

I was taking phentermine and now my period is out of contral its going and going forever

[@itsme_rebeca9001]

My follicular and lutear phases are the complete opposite that you´ve mentioned. During my follicular phase I don´t want to do anything I´d rather be alone and in my lutear phase I tend to do everything that I´ve dragged during the month and suddenly I´m super productive. Also five days before my period I feel the urge to bake something in the oven, it´s kinda weird

[@Stankoniabegonia]

I love this

[@flowergirle9250]

I’m in my literal phase right now, 9 days away from my period and I’m feeling the slow-down/easy irritation/chocolate craving. Also my voice pitch is a bit lower than last week. Does this happen to anyone else? It’s my least favorite phase of the 4 because of the demands of life/society but I’m trying to learn to make the best of it.

[@francescacappai2652]

I feel like during the first phase of my menstruation i feel more sluggish but i KILL IT when i work out 😂 maybe i need to take some anger out of my body by working hard at the gym

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

I've experienced this energy flux with menstruation too. It's an amazing feeling on our bleed!

[@OliveB69]

You should do a video on lunaception!

[@OliveB69]

Its a method people use to line up their cycles with the lunar cycle! Ovulate on the full moon and menstruate (new cycle) with the new moon. Apparently this is what we are designed to do but artificial light and other endocrine disruptors have messed that natural cycle up in most women. You sleep in a pitch black room every night and on the day before, the day of, and the day after the full moon your put on a nightlight to mimic the full moon or if you're lucky enough to have a window in your bedroom that can let the light of the moon in, just open your shades on those 3 nights. Your cycle should start to adjust so you ovulate on one of those nights where your nightlight is on.

[@amarahc4351]

Olivia Reinhardt ”lucky enough to have a window in your bedroom”.... Bedrooms legally have to have a window to have a person sleeping in them for fire safety... Sounds like your sleeping in a ”bedroom” not up to code....

[@amarahc4351]

Olivia Reinhardt I won't even touch on the theory, just your mention that you sleep in a room without a window and don't know that is against housing codes.... Sad...

[@flowergirle9250]

I meant luteal phase , silly autocorrect.

[@laurenpappin284]

When you clapped you scared me

[@karlimaerie]

Does anyone get cramps when they are ovulating? I don’t get many period cramps but every month without fail I get painful cramps on one side of my abdomen :(

[@FemmeHead]

There's actually a term for ovulation pains/cramps. "Mittelschmerz". So, you're definitely not alone!

[@karlimaerie]

FemmeHead wow I had no idea! Thank you!

[@haleymfoxx]

While I like the concept of connecting to your body and embracing what’s happening, the idea that you will act a certain way based on your cycle or that you should wait for a time of the month to do something feels gross to me. Womanhood shouldn’t limit us and I think you can be aware of what’s happening to you while maintaining your life. I can’t tell my boss, sorry I can’t give you my best work until my period is over or can we push this networking event out until I’m in my ovulation phase?

[@amarahc4351]

Haley Fox you have such a judgmental way of interpreting scientific research... This isn't just made up, if you personally don't match these ”mood swings” that means you fall into the minority... Don't go to university for math or science lol

[@amarahc4351]

Like you sound like it's a theory, and you have the right to be offended by it.... This is like physically proven in case studies....

[@CycleCoachAcademy]

Hey Haley, when you say "we have to act a certain way in your cycle", I totally understand where you're coming from. Cycle syncing can seem too astringent and tight, yes! But true femininity is finding your own flow within the cycles that you experience. It's not about STICKING to one thing, it's about finding ease with the world around you.