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Period Power
- Narrated by: Maisie Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Maisie Hill explains the Cycle Strategy
In the Cycle Strategy your cycle is divided into the four seasons, each representing a distinct phase in which your hormone levels influence your energy, mood and behaviour. The Cycle Strategy is a flexible framework which allows you to understand and work with your particular experience of your cycle, helping you to use the powers of each season to get what you want out of life, and to make adjustments to improve the darker days.
Summary
Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, to give all menstruators a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to us every month and how we can use each phase to its full advantage.
Ninety per cent of people who have periods experience symptoms of PMS, a syndrome which features a wide range of signs and symptoms, and yet there's an enduring lack of understanding about what it actually is and a disappointingly meagre range of treatment options.
So many of us have a Jekyll and Hyde experience of our lives; we feel on top of the world, capable, confident and sexy for part of each month, then find ourselves in a state of physical and emotional discomfort and fatigue, wanting nothing more than to collapse on the sofa in front of Netflix.
But what if instead of just trying to plan for our dark days, we were equipped with ways to improve them? What if our desire to improve ourselves could be combined with our need to know just what our womb and ovaries are getting up to every month?
Not to mention how to take advantage of the natural superpowers that sit in each phase of our cycle so that we can plan our month to perform at our best.
Maisie Hill is uniquely placed, as an acupuncturist, women's health practitioner and doula, to explain just how we can achieve this as well as focusing on particular milestones that require an altered approach, such as coming off hormonal birth control, infertility, pregnancy, motherhood and the perimenopausal years.
Using what Hill calls 'The Cycle Strategy' - a secret weapon when it comes to improving our relationships, career and health - Hill will give us all the information we need to make sense of our cycles as well as accessible and practical suggestions through which we can improve our physical symptoms and stop berating ourselves because of the way we evolve through each menstrual month.
About the Author
Maisie Hill
Maisie Hill is a highly qualified and sought-after women’s health expert with more than a decade of experience as a practitioner and birth doula. Maisie knows the power of working with the menstrual cycle and believes that are hormones are there to serve us and help us get what we want out of life. Maisie is a go-to authority in the growing trend for women to get a handle on their menstrual cycle and is quoted in publications from The Guardian to Grazia.
Firstly learning about my cycle and all the stages that it goes through was eye-opening on it’s own. But then layering on the language and understanding of the seasons has fundamentally changed my life, my outlook, my selfcare routine and my interpersonal relationships, all for the better. A sense of calm has washed over me through this understanding that I was deeply searching for but didn’t know where to find the solution. Maisie has taught me that the solution is me by tuning into my cycle, to working with my cycle and harnessing the unique power that comes with being a woman and having a cycle. It’s the beginning of a magical journey!
- Eileen, client from Maisie's Womb Tang Clan online programme
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- AnnaLouise Brunton
- 31-05-20
All Over the Place
This book was a real struggle to finish. I enjoyed the first section about the cycle strategy, especially listening while on my period. I found it comforting, albeit at times unrealistic on how much control people have to plan their schedules around their period (if every woman did this I can imagine a very disordered society).
If the book had ended there I probably would have given it 4 stars however the 'self-care' chapter was infuriating. With an air of social media 'expert' it promotes an orthorexic inducing lifestyle and suspicion of medical professionals who have higher qualifications than the author. I would honestly advise against reading this chapter.
In the epilogue, Hill states her aim for the book as making women feel better about themselves. For me that was completely unsuccessful. The only way you can feel good about yourself in light of the advise in this book is if you have a completely restrictive lifestyle.
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- Jade
- 14-04-20
Reliant on anecdotes not scientific data
There is a lot of information in this book that is verified by solid scientific research, however she delves into anecdotal advice a lot which can be quite unhelpful. Some of the advice is nbased on cherry picked data and her biases do show through at times because of her personal issues.
If it's your first book on this subject, hormones, female health and diet, then I'm sure you will learn a lot but there are better books out there with more qualified and less biased advice.
I find the use of strong language unprofessional at times, though I generally enjoy foul language lol maybe there are more appropriate books for that type of thing.
I was warmed by her consideration for those who don't identify with a specific gender. I did find the over the top sterotypical feminism and politics a difficult read. She does paint women as victims that are blown around by our hormones. Buying into sterotypical views that women feel x at this time of the month and y at this time of the month. Rather than women are influenced by their hormonal fluctuations but not controlled by them. Chapters that revolved around this were difficult to finish and felt very patronising.
If your looking for a friendly chat about hormones then go for it, but if your looking for an informational book backed by science not opinions then there are much better.
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- N. J. Badger
- 16-08-20
Not what i thought it was going to be
Didn’t meet with what I was expecting from the description. Tried to listen but couldn’t stay attentive.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-01-21
Good but also flawed
I did really enjoy the first few parts of this book. And I definitely think women should think more about their cycles so thank you Maisie for writing this. However, I was disappointed that a lot of the advice was rooted in unscientific practises and things that to me seem to steer people away from modern medicine. It was still very informative in some parts hence the 3 star review but I found it to be topped with hooey statements that made me question the overall validity of the book.
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- Éabha Wall
- 16-02-20
1.5 stars, struggled to finish
1.5 stars. I'm glad Audible had this on sale, I would have been disappointed to waste a credit on it. There was 20 mins left in the recording that I didn't finish. Anything useful or interesting in this book, I already knew (to be fair if you knew less about the human body and or menstrual cycle you would rate this higher).
I just felt really conflicted over some of the messages in this book. Although Hill maintains she "doesn't judge" any woman's decision with how they manage their cycle.. she's fairly staunch in her anti-hormone anti-western leanings. I think any natural measures one can take for their health are always to be considered and tried, however sometimes medication is necessary, end of.
She kept referring to oestrogen (or maybe progesterone, I can't remember) as the "Beyonce" of hormones...
I did find bits about black women's disproportionate access to healthcare & women's health in particular, fairly interesting.
Look, I just didn't find anything in here particularly groundbreaking. It was the same "eat well, exercise often but not too often, cut down on alcohol intake" self-help advice you'd find in so many other places.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-01-23
If I could score lower I would
Honestly everything is horrendous. I’m half way through “winter” and honestly the misinformation and jarring tone was too much, At which point I checked the reviews and had my suspicions confirmed.
Using Beyoncé as an analogy for a hormone means nothing. Extremely patronising, cookie cutter “girl power”. The remarks on exercising when you enter the menstruation phase were the final straw for me. Absolutely quack nonsense & contrary to research by actual PHDs, MScs who work in this field. Very concerning how many people will have read this crap and been misinformed about their bodies.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-02-20
One Stop Book for Women
The book has lots of great information and is well structured. I didn't enjoy the narration (sorry to writer) or the swearing. A very passionate writer who seems very knowledgeable. Enjoyed the quotes and backing up of statements too, had a scientific element. Also had really good practical advice. Loved that the book had all information needed in one place from starting period to fertility to menapouse. Also, information for transgender etc. Writer is a passionate advocate for women! Thank you
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- Sam Plastow
- 24-06-19
Don’t waste your money/credit
I can’t review this book any better than ‘music lover’ did.
I really wanted to like this book, and it got of to a promising start. The first section which focuses on the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system is interesting.
The rest of the book is just padding and or pseudoscience nonsense. It very much reminds me of reading a horoscope. Hill with makes claims that can neither be proved or disproved, or says a lot without really saying anything at all.
In the end I couldn’t even use this book to help me fall asleep at night because I found Hill’s narration annoying.
Save your money or credit- avoid!
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- Lydia
- 04-02-23
Fantastic but some concerns
This book is absolutely brilliant and did change the way I thought of the female anatomy and my relationship to my own cycle.
I think it is incredibly informative and educational.
My only concern is I recently learned the author is self taught and I’m not sure that absolutely everything is research backed.
However she seems to care much more than any doctor I’ve ever had so even if it’s with a pinch of salt I’ll definitely take and use the advice in this book
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- FrenchTeacher
- 25-11-20
Wish I'd read this years ago
I'm buying a copy of this for every woman I know for xmas. unexpectedly entertaining too.
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