THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
These are the books, tools, and treasures that have supported me in living cyclically, parenting with presence, and guiding mothers and girls in their journey. I only recommend things I have used, loved, and would offer a dear friend. Some links are affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission—and I only share what I truly stand behind. If I've missed something that should be here, or if you find something problematic about my recommendations, please reach out and let me know.
MENSTRUAL CARE PRODUCTS
These are the menstrual care items I most often recommend to girls and parents in my Period of Change workshops. Whether your daughter is exploring period care for the first time, getting the hang of it and ready to explore new options, or you're rethinking your own options, these are gentle, effective, and tween/teen-friendly.
PADS
Gentle, visible, and easy for tweens and teens to manage without internal use.
Thoughtfully designed for first periods — compact, cute, and free of harmful chemicals. Parents rave about it.
Cute, soft on the skin and washable. A beautiful way to introduce sustainability into body care routines.
Organic cotton + chlorine-free = peace of mind. Good price point for younger girls.
Founded by a Black woman, Honey Pot products are free of SLS, SLES, phthalates, and artificial fragrances. and are "powered by herbs." Plus, they donate 2% of sales to charitable organizations.
DISCS
A soft, internal option that sit higher than cups and can be a great choice for active teens or those looking for a barely-there feel.
Ideal for trying out discs without committing to reusable care. Slim, flexible, and great for swimming or long days.
One of the most beginner-friendly reusable discs — comes with a soft applicator that makes insertion less intimidating for tweens and teens.
Made from 60% plant-based material, this sustainable option is soft and body-safe — a nice match for teens with sensitive systems.
Designed with a built-in pull tab for easier removal. Great for active girls or anyone nervous about getting a disc out.
CUPS
Soft, flexible, and reusable, menstrual cups can be a great option for tweens and teens who are ready to explore internal care.
My go-to for beginners — soft, small, and comes with everything needed to get started, including a gentle cleanser and carrying pouch.
Designed specifically for younger users with a lower cervix or petite frame. Soft, flexible, and thoughtfully engineered for comfort.
One of the smallest cups available — a great starter option for tweens who are curious but need something ultra gentle and easy to manage.
Features a pull-tab for easier removal, which many teens love. Great for active girls or those feeling nervous about insertion and removal.
PERIOD UNDERWEAR
With the look and feel of regular underwear, these have built-in absorbency for light to moderate flow.
Designed for younger bodies with fun prints and real absorbency. Teens love how normal they feel — and how well they work.
A great backup or emergency option. Make from organic cottong, these are soft, breathable, and ideal for overnight use, travel, or packing in a first period kit.
Specifically made for tweens and teens — sleek, absorbent, and totally swim-proof without looking or feeling different from regular suits.
A more affordable option with a variety of styles. Great for extra coverage and light to moderate flow days.
MOONTIME MAGIC BASKET
Can you imagine what it would have meant to receive not just information, but adoration—a basket of care, comfort, and celebration at your first period? Whether you’re preparing this for your child’s menarche, or beginning a monthly ritual you'll share, a Moontime Magic Basket is a tangible way to bring reverence, softness, and a little magic back to our cycle.
BASKETS
Cute and practical, these baskets say, "Let's make this all about you!"
The perfect size, and very on-trend.
Super cute, with handy handles.
Rectangular with a scalloped top edge, this adorable basket looks good in any room.
Classic basket style, perfect for a self-care collection.
Not a basket per se, but this 2-bag wet/dry set is a must-have for moontime care, and it comes in lots of cute patterns.
HEAT THERAPY
Help her get comfy with warm relief.
These are just about the cutest thing out there! I pretty much want one of each of these weighted, scented, and microwavable plush animal friends.
This adorable microwavable heating pad is unscented and washable. (And there are lots of other super cute options like fox, cow, unicorn, etc.)
This electric heating pad has twelve temperature settings and eight timer options.
This sherpa fleece heating pad has moist heat option, twelve temperature settings, and auto shut-off function.
Chocolate
Yes chocolate gets its own category! Who doesn't crave something extra decadent and delish?
My favorite chocolate: organic, paleo, Keto, non-GMO; free of dairy, cane sugar, refined sugar, soy lecithin, gluten, and emulsifiers, with lots of yummy flavor options.
Dove Promises are a fan favorite in all of my circles, and Dove supports female cocoa farmers in Cote d'Ivoire through the CARE humanitarian organization.
The mission of Tony's chocolate is to end human exploitation and child labor in the farming and processing of cocoa. Ethical and delicious!
SELF-CARE
Moontime baskets are the perfect way to create a magical monthly rhythm of self-care.
Five-pack of plush spa socks in different color and pattern options.
Four-pack of super comfy jogger lounge pants with adjustable drawstring waistband in many color options.
Three-pack of cozy high-waisted jogger lounge pants in many color options.
Two-pack of aromatherapy flaxseed pillows with washable cover.
Pink fuzzy couch-sized throw with heart pattern (and other pattern options).
Cozy adornment to let the family know she is needing extra rest and care.
The perfect way to bring a sense of ritual and sacred care to her moontime.
A set of 54 affirmation cards focusing on self-love, body positivity, friendship, school confidence, and personal growth.
Great journal for tracking mood and energy each day.
Mental health journal to track mood and ease anxiety, and promote positive thinking and gratitude.
Great to have on hand to encourage self-awareness, and helpful for inserting internal menstrual care products.
These plant-based compact flushable wipes are hypoallergenic, paraben-free, fragrance-free, and alcohol-free -- and perfect for period care bags.
I honestly can't live without Dr. Teal's Eucalyptus & Spearmint Epsom salt, and love that it's cruelty-free, paraben-free, and made with pure essential oils.
I LOVE this and use it just about every day - it is such a lovely and refreshing pick-me-up. (Roll-on also available.)
Another fave that I can't live without! Everyone is EWG verified, GMO free, cruelty free, gluten free, paraben free, triclosan free, and synthetic fragrance free. I use the Citrus+Mint daily.
HERBAL SUPPORT
Plant allies to soothe cramps, balance hormones, and offer comfort.
A blend of crampbark, ginger, yarrow, and valerian. I swear by this blend; it works better and faster than NSAIDs without harming your stomach.
This uterine tonic relieves cramping and pain.
Eases cramps, reduces bloating, and soothes intestinal discomfort.
High in iron to help support blood loss.
High in iron to support blood loss; supports immunity and regulates energy.
Herbal supplements are not regulated or evaluated by the FDA, and their use should be discussed with your care provider before including in your child's diet.
BOOKS I LOVE
I wouldn't be who I am today without the right books coming into my life at the right time. I have learned so much about myself and the world we live in through the wisdom and insight and magic of so many women. My journey began with Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler; that book literally changed my life. I hope to pay it all forward with my work, and by sharing some of my favorite books and authors with you.
FOR KIDS & TEENS
Great additions to her Moontime Magic Basket or bookshelf.
A holistic guide for girls as they approach puberty – a celebration of our menstrual bodies and initiation to womanhood.
Answers about perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began.
Provides children age seven and up with the honest answers they’re looking for through age-appropriate, reassuring words and accurate, up-to-date, inclusive art.
A trusted resource on sexuality for 9+ year-olds and vetted by experts, this edition is updated and features current information and inclusive language.
The journey of a young girl in learning from her community about celebrating the powers of menstruation.
Features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts, including answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples. For 8+ year-olds.
Features tips, how-tos, and guidance for the next steps of growing up; covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more. For 10+ year-olds.
Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched graphic novel covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, jealousy, rejection, sex education, and more. For teens.
Filled with information and free from cultural hang-ups, this gender-neutral book is directed at anybody that's ever dealt with having a period.
A body-positive guide to help girls ages 8 to 12 navigate the changes of puberty and grow into women, this age-appropriate sex education book has the answers young girls are looking for―in a way that they can relate to.
THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP & GIRLHOOD
Focused on communication, emotional growth, and supporting daughters through adolescence.
With the moon as a guide and a symbol, Moon Mother, Moon Daughter introduces a whole new approach to the coming of age years, a time to strengthen the mother-daughter connection with the support of community, and celebrate female gifts and wisdom.
Guides mothers in learning how to build the foundation for a deep and lasting relationship that is a source of support, joy, and love throughout your lives.
A timely, readable combination of insightful research and real-world examples that illuminate the challenges young women face and the ways to address them.
Provides realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways and gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions.
Offering a fresh perspective on the fraught mother-daughter relationship, McFadden shows how mothers can create the right environment for their daughters to grow into self-assured women. An essential resource for women who want to establish a more open and positive relationship with their daughters.
A Jungian analyst gives mothers positive, solution-oriented strategies for minimizing conflict and for coming to terms with their changing role.
A guide that helps parents focus on their children's unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers.
PERIMENOPAUSE & MIDLIFE
Insightful, empowering reads that illuminate the hormonal shifts, emotional truths, and spiritual transformation of the midlife journey.
A trailblazing guide to menopause, filled with nourishing wisdom and practical advice to help you harness the transformative power of the menopause and thrive in your life.
A completely original paradigm—that of the midlife Queen, a woman in her prime who has achieved wisdom, mastery, and self-esteem—that reflects more accurately the realities and needs of women today.
Calm positivity to help makes sense of complex physiological processes in an easy-to-understand manner, helping women to understand what the hell's going on with them and provide instruction on what can be done to improve their experience of the perimenopause transition.
Brings you empowerment through knowledge by countering stubborn myths and misunderstandings about menopause with hard facts, real science, fascinating historical perspective, and expert advice.
Uses a myriad of tools and practices such as Earth based spirituality, shamanic teachings, movement and dance, and breath and sound work to teach women how to reconnect to their feminine wisdom in order to start rebalancing all aspects of their lives.
In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, names the powerful new energies and goddess archetypes of compassion, outrage, healing laughter, and new layers of wisdom that come into the psyche at this momentous time.
A leading neuroscientist and women’s brain health specialist unravels these mysteries by revealing how menopause doesn’t just impact the ovaries—it’s a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage.
Everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage.
A life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet, exploring perimenopause as a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds.
A companion for everyone who's reached this "what to expect when you're not expected to expect anything" time of life. It's a health-forward, feminist, no b.s. (and damn funny) perimenopause guide for the generation that time forgot (aka GenXers), offering straightforward descriptions of our bodies, minds, lives and what's going on with them during this time of hormonal chaos.
CYCLICAL WISDOM
Books that directly support understanding periods, cycles, and bodily rhythms.
Full of practical insight, spiritual wisdom, empowering resources and creative activities, this book will help reconnect you to the cycles within and beyond your body.
A profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, providing a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to their hormones every month and how they can use each phase to its full advantage.
Brings together over 1,000 meticulously researched scientific references in a textbook-quality guide to understanding your menstrual cycle.
Helps identify the root causes of your symptoms and guides you through a 6-week proven program to achieve lifelong hormonal and gynecologic health.
Where it all started for me! This book discusses how to become pregnant, avoid pregnancy naturally and gain better control of your gynecological and sexual health by charting your cycle using the proven Fertility Awareness Method.
Through natural hormone regulation, this prescriptive program has successfully helped thousands of women regulate their periods, clear up their skin, lose weight, alleviate PMS, get pregnant naturally, have more successful IVF, restore their energy, improve their moods, and have better sex.
A revolutionary 4-week solution to manage your energy and time according to your female biochemistry. By working with each phase, you’ll support your hormones, unlock peak creativity and performance, and avoid burnout.
Unprecedented insight into the feminine body and on using its natural rhythms to heal, find balance and reconnect to our emotions.
A guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and natural hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation.
Proven 30-day program designed to reverse the myriad of symptoms women experience every day—whether you choose to stay on the pill or not. The first book of its kind to target the birth control pill and the scientifically-proven symptoms associated with taking it.
A life-changing step-by-step natural protocol to ignite lasting hormone balance and improve everything from PMS, period pain, and heavy periods to irregular cycles and missing periods.
Discusses often overlooked topics including how cultural attitudes affect women's health, the different phases of your period, natural ways to relieve menstrual symptoms, strategies for processing premenstrual feelings constructively, and understanding the menstrual altered state of consciousness and how it supports spiritual and psychological development.
Addresses the menstrual disconnect that women have been undergoing for centuries, and offers remedies to heal this split. Moon Mysteries invites all women to reclaim the wild and inherent menstrual wisdom that is their birth right.
BODY LITERACY & EMPOWERED EMBODIMENT
Books that deepen understanding of the female body, pleasure, and body sovereignty.
Answers the questions you’ve always had but were afraid to ask—or couldn’t find the right answers to.
A new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making—the uterus, ovaries, and vagina—and illuminating them as part of a dynamic, resilient, and ever-changing whole.
New insights about "the mind-vagina connection" and about what women really need, on many different levels; considers what sexual relationships—and a woman's relationship to her self, as well as to her own desire and pleasure—may look like.
This book is meant to be a wake-up call and a reclamation, Readers learn the secret ingredient every woman is missing; how to crack the confidence code; why sex appeal is an inside job; what’s ahead on the next frontier of feminism—and how they can help make it happen.
Uses a myriad of tools and practices such as Earth based spirituality, shamanic teachings, movement and dance, and breath and sound work to teach women how to reconnect to their feminine wisdom in order to start rebalancing all aspects of their lives.
Discusses how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. (Almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function.)
Offers a unique, holistic approach to reclaiming the power, spirit, and joy of the female body and the understanding of its connection to creative energy flow. By restoring the physical and energetic balance in the pelvic bowl, women can learn to care for themselves in a nourishing and respectful manner, heal spiritual fractures, and renew their relationship with the sacred feminine.
Explores how our cravings are the gatekeepers of our deepest longings and desires; how transforming habits set us free; and how detoxing unclutters our bodies and minds so we may engage in our lives with more power and authenticity.
100 women bravely share un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside honest, courageous, powerful and humorous stories about their breasts and their lives. Women from all walks of life took part, aged from 19 to 101, sized AAA to K, from Buddhist nun to burlesque dancer. Their perspectives and experiences are revealing and profoundly moving.
Departs from the ‘ideal vagina’ and presents the gentle un-airbrushed truth, allowing us to understand and celebrate our diversity. 100 brave and beautiful women reveal their bodies and stories on their own terms, talking about how they feel about pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, birth, motherhood, menstruation, menopause, gender, sexuality and simply being a woman.
WILD WISDOM &
FEMINIST MYTHOS
Stories and frameworks that reclaim the sacred feminine and invite a return to instinct, archetype, and ancestral knowing.
A potent tool for personal and global transformation, these meditations beckon you to explore the powerful realm of symbolism and archetypes, inviting you to access your wild and wise inner knowing.
Shows how women's vitality can be restored through "psychic archaeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious and helps women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.
A fascinating discussion of how civilization became patriarchal eons ago as masculine power and greed overwhelmed and destroyed goddess who were more nurturing and cooperative in nature.
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
A compelling book urging modern women to reconnect with and reclaim their inborn feminine powers and ancient wisdom.
From Daughter to Blood Sister, Mother to Amazon, Sorceress to Crone, this groundbreaking work reveals the grand pattern of women's lives through thirteen archetypes.
Empowering girls* with body
sovereignty and cycle literacy,
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Empowering girls* with body sovereignty
and cycle literacy, one circle at a time.
* All Period of Change events are inclusive, and welcome menstruators and future-menstruators of all gender identities and expressions.
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