Moon time: A guide to celebrating your menstrual cycle is a book of empowerment to help you to find healing and learn to celebrate yourself as a woman. Personal, wise, gently humorous, warm and welcoming, it opens a dialogue on what is often a taboo subject. If you are looking for...* deeper harmony with yourself and your menstrual cycle* greater self-knowledge and self-acceptance* natural ways of dealing with PMT* rituals to express your feminine creativity* an enhanced relationship with your family at “that time of the month”* a way to balance your hectic life and your body's needs* positive language to describe your body and its functions* how to create a red tent or moon lodge* knowing how to celebrate you daughter's impending womanhood* a greater connection to nature's cycles, seasons and the moonYou will find it here. Lucy Pearce shares her own personal story of being a cycling woman, woven in between the voices of menstrual educators and visionary teachers from around the world, all dedicated to bringing about greater understanding and self-acceptance for women and their moon time. Supplemented by spiritual insight and scientific research, this book provides a comprehensive, reflective and highly accessible, practical guide to being a cycling woman.The first book to document the Red Tent movement, this practical guidebook shares creative tools to help you celebrate your cycle:* rituals for self care* nutritional and herbal suggestions for supporting you through your cycle* spiritual/ wise woman insight into your cycle* creative projects* resources for charting your cycle* a large chapter of resources: books, websites, forums and videosLearning to celebrate your cyclical nature leads to a greater sense of ease, well being, physical and emotional comfort throughout the month.Lucy Pearce is a teacher of Woman-craft and creativity, a free-spirited freelance writer and mama to three young children, based in Ireland. She is the founder of a women's group and leads women's rituals and ceremonies. Recipient of the Writer’s Bureau runner up Writer of the Year 2010, she is a regular contributor to Modern Mum magazine, The Irish Examiner, JUNO and online to Rhythm of the Home and Wild Sister magazine. She is contributing editor at JUNO magazine.