Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! Today we are talking about menstrual cycles and the moon phases with Joy Davis, a Fertility Awareness Educator training in the Justisse Method. Joy grew up in Alderville First Nation in Southern Ontario, Canada. Her Anishinaabe culture is a huge part of her identity. She teaches menstruators about using their menstrual cycles as a health tool and to achieve or avoid pregnancy. She strives to make fertility, cervical mucus, vagina's and uterus' fun and talked about openly. She believes in using your fertility to your advantage instead of fearing it!

In this episode:

• Introduction and Joy’s experience with hormonal birth control and her discovery of fertility awareness method (FAM)
• The benefits of the fertility awareness method and the ways it can connect you to your cycle and your body
• Joy’s business Full Moon Fertility, and the meaning behind the name
• Full moon ceremonies: what there are and what they signify
• The relationship between the moon and a women’s cycle
• Red moon cycles vs white mood cycles
• The difference in energy flow between these two-cycle types
• Acknowledging how our cycles and energy may vary month by month
• What are a woman's top fertile signs that she should be paying attention to?
• Misconceptions when looking at basal body temperature as a fertility indicator
• Addressing why FAM is worth the extra time commitment
• The learning curve of FAM
• The benefits and reward of charting your cycle
• The first steps to getting started with FAM
  

Connect with guest: Joy Davis

Instagram: @fullmoon.fertility  | Website: www.fullmoonfertility.ca

Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND

Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com.  Instagram: @drantoinettefalco

Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to thehormoneheartbeatpodcast@gmail.com, If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!