Why I made Cycle Diary

Half of humanity knows, has known or will know how it feels to live inside a menstruating & ovulating body.

We ebb and flow like the tide, we change like the seasons, we're cyclical as the moon, plants and everything else in nature. The biology of our reproductive system is brilliantly sophisticated. The folklore around it is rich and full of wisdom. We're different every day, but we return to that same day and experience similarity. It has a pattern and inside that pattern is an insight to yourself: how you feel about what you eat, how you spend your days, who you spend it with, what you need, what you want.

It's a colorful, magical, brilliant reality. But it's not celebrated and it's rarely taught. We're ignoring it at best and hating it at worst - looking at centuries of ideologies to dominate over nature and female sexuality & fertility that *might be at fault here*.

I started illustrating cycle days because I wanted to make more space for our reality, more art about it. I wanted to prove it's a shared experience (as old as time!), a fun and rich place to investigate, a door to your psyche, a power of some sort we've mistaken for our weakness.
I distilled everything I've learned in the past few years about cycles into images, colors and concepts. My hope is that the art delights you and makes you wonder if there's more to your cycle than meets the eye…

I don't know what you'll figure out about yourself, your needs and desires, if you pay attention to your ovulating & menstruating body. But whatever it is, I believe it matters. I made a colourful journal full of illustrations to help you realise you come from a lineage of creative, cyclical beings, and if there's one thing I know for sure, it's this: you too belong.