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226. The Power of No: Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Boundaries (Alexandra & Sjanie)

January 22, 2026 • Red School • Season 16 • Episode 226

One of the most beautiful and practical gifts of menstrual cycle awareness is how it awakens a newfound capacity to know and assert our boundaries.

As we track our shifting emotions, mental state and energy levels through the cycle month, we get to know our unique strengths and our limits. This helps to build confidence in ourselves and our nature, so that when we become aware of a boundary that has been crossed, we’re more able to find a skillful way to use the power of NO.

So today we’re exploring the power of menstrual cycle awareness for setting boundaries, especially when you’re highly sensitive, in the premenstrual phase of your cycle, and in the years running up to and during menopause, and how this is potentially a life-changing and even world-changing act.

We explore:

How to work with the inner critic voice that invariably wakes up when we decide to claim a boundary and take care of ourselves.
How the initiatory times in our menstruality life arc; like matressense, perimenopause, menopause, illness, loss require even stronger boundaries to hold ourselves through liminal times.
Why we all need to re-write the story of the emotional messages of inner autumn as boundary signals rather than irrational outbursts.

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