Nobody handed us the answers. So we froze, changed the subject, or Googled it at 11pm.
Because I didn't understand my body or my cycles, I was put on the pill at sixteen — and spent years feeling like a stranger in my own body. It took me twenty years and three sets of qualifications to learn what your girl deserves to hear from you, now, in plain language.
She's going to learn about her body from somewhere. It might be a friend who's guessing, or a video that's half-wrong — or it could be from you, delivered calmly and with love, and with the right words already in hand.
Her body isn't broken. It's brilliant — and it's still finding its rhythm.
