In touch with the Mother Goddess
Dec. 12th, 2002 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeOr most emphatically NOT.
I do not in the least understand this whole meme of "being one with the divine Mother", "feeling your moon power" or "the power of sacred creation".
I don't feel holy, consecrated, creative, powerful, or a channel for a voluptuous deity with flowers draped all over her. I feel like there's a metric fuckload of blood pouring out of my bits and I deeply resent having to a) shove a cotton plug up or b) wear what is, effectively, an adult diaper in order to keep from leaving a messy trail all over myself and my chair. Even if we left out the cramps, bloating, &c., which can be dealt with by various methods, *nothing will change* that fundamental symptom; nothing will make it magical or powerful or anything other than really goddamned annoying. Go ahead--tell me how a constant feeling like you're widdling yourself is the feel of girl power.
Snarl. Bleh.
I do not in the least understand this whole meme of "being one with the divine Mother", "feeling your moon power" or "the power of sacred creation".
I don't feel holy, consecrated, creative, powerful, or a channel for a voluptuous deity with flowers draped all over her. I feel like there's a metric fuckload of blood pouring out of my bits and I deeply resent having to a) shove a cotton plug up or b) wear what is, effectively, an adult diaper in order to keep from leaving a messy trail all over myself and my chair. Even if we left out the cramps, bloating, &c., which can be dealt with by various methods, *nothing will change* that fundamental symptom; nothing will make it magical or powerful or anything other than really goddamned annoying. Go ahead--tell me how a constant feeling like you're widdling yourself is the feel of girl power.
Snarl. Bleh.
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Date: 2002-12-12 04:17 pm (UTC)How do you deal with bloating?
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Date: 2002-12-13 01:31 pm (UTC)Loosening my belt a notch and swearing a lot. :) Beth, on the other hand, swears by the Yogi brand womens' teas: Moon Cycle and Energy. The active ingredients there are dong quai and black cohosh. I can't say if they help or not, because you're supposed to start drinking several days in advance, which I never remember to do.
Avoiding caffeine and booze and anything else that makes life happy is supposed to help too.