Menstrual Phases Quick Guide
Here is a quick guide to your 4 phases! This handy table will help you explore the different feelings and actions of each phase. Also, you can use this as a cheat sheet to approximate what phase you are in. Para leer este artículo en español haga clic aquí.
Just a reminder: The suggestions in the post are possible ways you may be feeling. There is no wrong or right way to feel. Use this as a guide, but know that your body is the ultimate authority!
Jump to any of the phases below to see their overviews.
Find Deep Dives on each phase at the bottom of this post.
Menstrual Phase Overview
Follicular Phase Overview
Ovulation Phase Overview
Luteal Phase Overview
Menstrual Phase
Moon Phase: New MoonSeason: Winter
Approx. Cycle Days: 1 to 5
Physical: Shed Endometrium Lining
Experience:
- Blood Loss
- Abdominal cramps
- Tender back, pelvis, & thighs
- Fatigue
- Mood Swings
- Introversion
- Most Sensitive
Actions that Honor your Phase:
- Observe unseen aspects of yourself and bring them into the light for healing and integration.
- Release and let go of what is not serving you.
- Rest
- Journal
- Ritual
- Meditation
- Prayer
Qualities:
- Introspective
- Wise
- Integrative
- Inactive/Inert
- Cleansing
- Restful
- Quiet
- Contracting
- Introverted
- Prayerful
- Spiritual
- Revealing
- Deep
- Aware
- Perceptive
- Present
- Releasing
- Bleeding
- Sensitive
Cycle of Creation: Planning
Suggested Business Tasks:
- Planning
- Brainstorming
- Intuition
- Plans for virtual assistant or employee
- Let go of what doesn’t serve you
- Ideas to improve business
- Create vision for cycle
- Brainstorm collab partners
- Create presentations
- Schedule meetings and events
- Welcome packets
- Create Opt-Ins
- Mapping steps
- Creative Projects
- Writing Copy
- Scheduling your upcoming cycle
- Analyzing where each phase falls
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Follicular Phase
Moon Phase: Waxing MoonSeason: Spring
Approx. Cycle Days: 6 to 11
Physical: Ovaries Preparing Egg
Experience:
- Steadiness in mood & energy
- Increased concentration & focus
- General wellness or sense of wellbeing
- More extroverted
Actions that Honor your Phase:
- Play
- Shop
- Start projects
- Persue education
- Have fun and be active
- Move your body
- Go after goals
- Take leaps of faith
- Open up your receptivity to life,
- Draw desires toward you
Qualities:
- Innocent
- Playful
- Moving
- Active
- Expanding
- Growing
- Belief
- Faith
- Extroverted
- Explorative
- Manifesting
- Creative
- Imaginative
- Learning
Cycle of Creation: Doing
Suggested Business Tasks:
- Start new projects
- Networking events
- Meetings
- Learning
- Training
- Making phone calls
- Launching programs
- Updating email list
- Posting on social media
- Live videos
- Meetings with collab partners
- Drop off business cards
- Give presentations
- Schedule posts
- Post videos to YouTube
- Send emails
- Online challenges/summits
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Ovulation Phase
Moon Phase: Full MoonSeason: Summer
Approx. Cycle Days: 12 to 19
Physical: Egg Released
Experience:
- Increased energy
- Changes in libido
- Extroverted
- Heightened sense of smell
- Light spotting
Actions that Honor your Phase:
- Socialize
- Take risks
- Seek pleasurable interactions
- Actualize goals
- Peak time for manifestation, creativity, and being more outward with your work & social life.
Qualities:
- Energetic
- Confident
- Active
- Expanding
- Extroverted
- Adventurous
- Passionate
- Creative
- Fertile
- Actualizing
- Pleasureful
Cycle of Creation: Manifesting
Suggested Business Tasks:
- Live videos with call to action
- Speaking engagements
- Recording videos for programs
- Sales calls
- Raising prices
- Follow up with prospects
- Collaboration
- Tackling projects you are afraid of
- Leading meetings
- Getting pictures or headshots taken
- Events
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Luteal Phase
Moon Phase: Waning MoonSeason: Fall
Approx. Cycle Days: 17 to 28
Physical: Body Releases Progesterone
Experience:
- Relaxed
- Calm
- Serene
- Increased sensitivity
- Decrease in energy
- More introverted
Actions that Honor your Phase:
- Connect with nauture
- Heal
- Cleanse
- Prepare for release and shed
- Dig into deeper emotions, sensitivity, and your shadow
- Tap into primal instincts to cultivate inner transformation
- Analyze what is and is not working
Qualities:
- Mature
- Calm
- Contracting
- Introverted
- Deep
- Present
- Aware
- Critical
- Feeling
- Sensitive
Cycle of Creation: Analyzing
Suggested Business Tasks:
- Administrative tasks
- Accounting
- Scheduling
- Organizing paperwork
- Wrap up projects
- Analyze social media and website insights
- Cleaning
- Reorganizing
- Redecorating
- Filing
- Analyzing what did and did not go well this cycle
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