A letter to my body

By AMY STOCKWELL

Dear My Body –

We’ve been together for a while, so I figured that it’s time that we had a talk.

Our life together has been pretty good, hasn’t it?

I take you out for dinner. I take you for walks. I buy you pretty things.

And yet, there is that one issue between us that just won’t go away.

You see, once a month, you seem to hate my guts.

You begin by banging on my abdomen a march of imminent doom. You make my belly poke out (more than usual) and give it a very unfriendly stabbing.

Not content with owning my lower body, you invade my brain. You squeeze my temples and poke out my eyes. You have encouraged some kind of evil conspiracy between my head and my stomach that means that for every throb of my head, my tummy takes a spin.

You invite in a hideous rage that can be triggered at any time by the entirely inconsiderate nature of public transport, the unreasonable expectation that I might need to queue for something, or the temerity of someone who is rude enough to look at me.

You make me tired and keep me awake AT THE SAME TIME(how do you do that?).

And then the indignity: you make me cry during tissue commercials. Sometimes during toilet paper commercials. Always during RSPCA commercials.

Look, I feel like I’ve tried to work on our relationship. I am very understanding about our uterus’s need to sluice itself. I’m considerate: I buy you the feminine products with the nicest patterns on the boxes to make you happy.

So why do you continue to be such a jerk? What is it that you want from me?

I’d really appreciate it if you could get back to me on this issue in the next 26 to 30 days.

Yours faithfully,

Stox

Ancient wisdom, modern medicine.

Through his extensive clinical experience as a naturopath, Fusion® Health co-founder Paul Keogh

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Does your body hate you during that time of the month?