Cycle and low mood/ energy throughout.

Morning. 🙂

I’m wondering about my cycle and my moods/ energy levels throughout my cycle. It seems a little off. I’ve been tracking my cycle on an app for a while but started fresh with a new app and spreadsheet in June.

I’m noticing my mood is low a lot, tired a lot throughout my cycle. I’m often very low in spring, summer. I don’t think I’m giving myself any more self care or rest during my autumn or winter. Curious if this is a large part of the problem.

I should also mention, it’s been a stressful few months, opening a new business and a lot of feelings of doubt about this, so of course that would factor in.

My goal for autumn involved slowing down and practicing more self love. I’m not sure I’ve been doing that.
I planned to rest over my winter this month, but I ended up taking on a big job over the weekend, (my winter) which was more stressful than I expected, and definitely more stressful than enjoyable. Leading up to the weekend, work was very full on then I had a big meeting on the Friday just to top it off. My cortisol levels were through the roof a lot over the period of a few days & I was sleeping really badly. All during my autumn/winter.

The following week (my spring), I expected to feel a little tired, but have been really low as well. I did feel quite angry towards myself for taking on this job over the weekend, not respecting my cycle or my goals/rocks, but at the same time I felt we needed the money. I’m wondering, is there a way to get myself back on track for the rest of the month? Anything I can do in situations like this?

I’m still trying to get my head around self coaching and thought work. Listened to some of the calls on it this week so it’s starting to become clearer. I probably really could’ve done with it this past week but I’ve been really drained, finding it hard to focus so it’s not coming easily.

Thanks so much for help.

Answer:

The first step is always awareness, and what I’m seeing here is that you do have a lot of that. This is a great time to fling the door all the way open and invite even more awareness in. Take some time to reflect on how you ended up (or created the result of) not respecting your cycle, goals or rocks. It doesn’t need to take more than 3-5 minutes. It may be helpful to take a look at your decision making process as a series of steps – almost like an instruction manual or a set of directions. Write down what steps led you to deciding to say yes to this even though your goal was to rest, and do this from a reflective, objective, or even loving space if you can – shame and judgment aren’t invited to this party. You’re just trying to learn about what you do that has you saying no to yourself and yes to other things.

What do you notice from doing this exercise? How do you feel when you see it on paper? What does this allow you to choose about going forward into the remainder of your cycle? Be gentle with yourself. You’re learning something new, and it’s okay to wobble and fall – it doesn’t mean that anything has gone wrong. We’re here to support you on your journey. Also, starting next week, we will be hosting a new 30-minute long call that is exclusively for practicing models! Join us for some of that self-coaching goodness. In the mean time, watch the Doing Less webinar in the Bonuses tab.