My Story & The Birth Of Spotless Girl
When I was 13 years old, I was put on the pill.
I went to the doctor, having once more fainted in gym class. My periods would last 9 days and come every 7 days. I had intense bleeding, cramping, fainting spells, and low energy. My parents thought this couldn’t last any longer, so we went to the doctor.
But back then, nobody explained what was happening to me, and how I could handle it. I was stuck. I was drained. And honestly? I was a scared little girl in a big adult world. So with no other understanding than “that’s just the way it is for women… some suffer more than others”, I was put on the pill.
6 years later, I was struggling with depression, had gained unexplained weight, and felt very disconnected from my body.
One morning, I held the pill in my palm, and felt a physical reaction to it. I knew with certainty that if I took that pill, like I had every day for 6 years, I would throw it right up.
That’s when I started asking questions about it.
I learned about the pill’s side effects. I learned about the ways it shut down my menstrual cycle, altered my brain, threatened my fertility in the long term, and put me at risk of high inflammation. I got terrified. I could see and feel the side-effects impacting my body, and I could feel myself feeling less and less like…well… myself.
So I secretly got off the pill.
And when I did that, I was still scared. Would the previous symptoms come back? How would I manage them from now on? Was wanting a child in the future worth all the pain I had to go through now?
This started my journey of trying to figure out what was happening to my body, why it reacted like that, and if that was just the curse of womanhood or if there was something to do about it.
I discovered that what I had thought about my body and cycle wasn’t true and that my life was meant to feel healthy and radiant.
I discovered that period discomfort was a symptom of hormonal disregulation, not of womanhood. That my cycle impacted my entire life, not just the one week when I bled. That my menstrual cycle was led by a change in my brain, not in my uterus. That it was indeed possible to have a pleasant period if you considered your hormones.
And my whole health took a U-turn.
As a result, I took a deep dive into my cycle.
I became an Integrative Health Coach with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, an EFT practitioner with the Priority Academy, and a herbal practitioner for women with Aviva Romm (and many other teachers such as Marie-Christine Vallières, Sajah Popham, Kami McBride, Erika Galentin, Evan Sylliaasen, Camille Freeman, and Dr Libby Weaver).
I learned to use somatic therapy, nutrition, regulation of the nervous system, herbalism, and many other methods to transform my body and relationship to it, in ways that matched what I needed and wanted.
Now I have taken these years of learning and poured them into Spotless Girl, to give you the tools I wish I had as a girl.
Tools to balance hormones without the pill, to explain the natural design of the cycle and other hormonal flows, and to give women the opportunity to reconnect with their bodies as a whole miracle rather than a series of disassembled pieces that need fixing.
Spotless Girl exists to help women gain their power back, using their feminine biology as their biggest ally in a world that tells them to wage war against it. I encourage women to tap into a power that is so feminine that it literally shows up in their bodies, and to use it to create the lifestyle they truly desire.
This is about rejecting the easy fixes that actually dim the light of our cycle because, in the end, we are complex and wonderfully made creatures that deserve exquisite attention and care. We hold the map for radiance within, we just need to relearn to read it.
I Trust it Can Change for You, Too
I truly believe that women have the right to experience radiance during their period.
They can feel strong in their body and confident in their skin, no matter what time of the month. The gateway to this then becomes a journey of reconnecting, renourishing, and relearning about our cycle and menstrual wellness.
It gives us the peace of mind that comes from knowing that our next menstruation won’t disrupt our life, and that we’ll know what to do with the information our body will give us.
“The menstrual cycle is... our inner guidance system, initiating us into and anointing us with ever deepening revelation and wisdom,”
