Protecting My Deepest Desires™

In Week 1, we come together as a group for the first time to get to know one another and explore the “why” behind what brought each of us here. This session is an invitation to share your past experiences, your current struggles and the hopes you hold for shifting your relationship with your cycle and finding relief from PMDD. There is immense power in being witnessed in your story — and in modern life, we’re rarely offered spaces where we can speak openly, without judgement and be met with understanding. Week 1 creates that space, setting the foundation for bravery, connection and transformation.

In Week 2, we gently open to the idea that PMDD is not fixed, permanent or inevitable. In a world that often frames PMDD as incurable or something you must simply “manage,” and where mainstream support frequently centres on medication or hormonal contraception as the only option, this programme offers a different perspective: that your body is not broken...and that another path is possible. 

Together, we explore the broader context that PMDD exists within: the long history of menstrual cycles, premenstrual experiences and women’s health being dismissed, pathologised or stigmatised. Understanding this landscape helps you see that your symptoms are not personal failings or random suffering — they are part of a much bigger cultural story. This week is about expanding your sense of possibility, reconnecting with hope and beginning to believe that a different experience of your cycle is available to you.

In Week 3, we deepen your knowledge of the menstrual cycle so you can understand exactly what your body is communicating each month. We explore the hormonal phases (or inner seasons) of your cycle and how your energy, emotions and needs naturally shift throughout each one. We explore your hormones in-depth and we also look at the balance — and imbalance — between masculine (linear, structured) and feminine (cyclical, intuitive) energies, and how living in a chronically “linear” society can amplify premenstrual sensitivity and PMDD symptoms.

Building awareness of your nervous system is a key part of this week. You’ll learn how stress, overwhelm and constant activation can intensify PMDD experiences, how to recognise the signals your body gives you and how to respond. 

In Week 4, you are invited to get even more curious about your cycle experiences and explore practical tools and strategies to get to the root of what these PMDD symptoms are trying to tell you. This may involve tracing the history of menstrual cycle related experiences in your family or looking at cultural beliefs you inherited, to spot patterns and generational stories that still impact your relationship with your body, your womb and your cycle. You will also examine lifestyle factors, as well as where you may be overgiving of your time and energy and not receiving enough in return. 

You will then have the opportunity to receive high quality guidance from guest coaches and facilitators on ways in which to access and work with the root causes of what you're experiencing, whether that's through nutrition, herbalism, energy work or other holistic and natural-health modalities. Whatever speciality our guest coaches bring will support you to build a more in-depth understanding of how your mind, body, energy and spirit are all interconnected and how you can work with all of these elements to restore more balance and trust when it comes to your menstrual cycle.

In Week 5, we begin to explore what it means to create a new, more loving and compassionate relationship with your menstrual cycle. This is the week where you are invited to meet your cycle with fresh eyes.

We gently return to the moment of menarche, the beginning of your first bleed. You may remember it clearly or you may not remember it at all. Either way is completely valid. What matters is the energetic imprint of how you were welcomed into this chapter of your life. That early experience often shapes how you continue to relate to your cycle today.

This week is an opportunity to rewrite that story as an adult. You are invited to give yourself the understanding, celebration and support you needed then. You get to offer yourself the guidance, reassurance and reverence that may not have been available to you at the time. To hold this work, we create our own virtual Red Tent or Temple. Through creative and healing arts practices, this is a space where we honour the wisdom of our cyclical nature, acknowledge the power we carry and recognise the challenges we have faced both individually and collectively. It becomes a place to feel seen, held and connected as you reshape your relationship with your cycle in a grounded and empowered way.

In our final week, Week 6, you are supported to integrate everything you have gained throughout the programme. This is where the insights from each week begin to settle into your daily life. You get to bring together all the pieces of menstrual cycle awareness you have been building and let them form something steady, practical and personal to you.

This week is about creating your own toolkit. A set of practices, habits and reminders that help you move through each phase of your cycle with more clarity and compassion. You will explore what truly supports you, what you want to keep nurturing and what feels ready to be released.

It is also a moment to acknowledge the progress you have already made. The shifts in understanding, the small wins, the new language you have developed for your own experience. Integration is not about perfection. It is about recognising what is working, tending to what still needs time and committing to honouring yourself in a deeper, more consistent way.

By the end of this week, you leave with guidance you can return to again and again. A living toolkit that grows with you and supports you far beyond the programme.