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The Period Playbook for [mostly] Natural Women 📖🩸✨️
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items Stuff that helps — whether you’re on period week, want clearer, brighter skin, a rounder booty or anything in between. This is a real-life mix of [mostly] natural support, easy swaps, and products that make every phase a little bit easier.
Sections
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Menstrual Days (1-5)
Follicular Days (6-13)
Ovulation Days (14-17)
Luteal Days (18-28+)
Best DIY Coffee Scrub
Period Pre-Game Movie List 🎬
Menstrual Days (1-5)
You are feeling tired, introspective and a little fragile. You're craving quiet, warmth and comfort and you need rest! Days 1 to 5 of your cycle are all about softness, slow mornings, nourishing foods and permission to pause 🫶🏼
Yes, you can want chocolate on your period — your body’s not lying to you. Dark chocolate is high in magnesium, which helps relax muscles and ease cramps, plus it gives you that little mood boost from serotonin. Go for 70% or higher so you get the be...
Dark Chocolate
These Rael heat pads are a period week lifesaver. They stick right to your underwear, warm up fast, and stay hot for hours — so you can get cramp relief without being stuck to a heating pad on the couch. Perfect for running errands or just moving aro...
Rael Heating Patches
You NEED a comfy set. IDC! Something you can sleep in, chase the kids, do yard work, clean the house, run to a playdate, take a nap or even wear it on a date. It’s cute enough for out of the house, cozy enough for the couch, and tough enough to survi...
Lounge Sets
If you’re feeling the pressure on days 1–5 of your cycle, which as a mom I do every month, this little CalmiGo device is actually the best! It helped me realize how shallow my breathing had gotten—and in just a few days I genuinely felt calmer and mo...
CalmiGo - Breath Trainer
If you get bad cramps, try red raspberry leaf tea. It helps tone your uterus and can make your shark week way less intense. Tastes kind of like a mild black tea, but without the caffeine. Tip and trick! Try it ICED 😋
Raspberry Leaf Tea
Period week? Get in a magnesium bath. Your uterus is basically a giant muscle and magnesium is great for relaxing your muscles! It helps with cramps, and just makes you feel less like throwing your whole uterus away. Brcause you deserve to feel comfo...
Magnesium Bath
Your skin changes with your cycle — oily, dry, sensitive, glowing — it’s all hormone-driven. Matching your skincare to each phase can help keep it balanced and calm. I’m adding a link with more info so you can see what to use when, without guessing
Syncing Skincare to Your Cycle
Perfect for making delicious high protein smoothies that are going to keep you energize and going all week long! It's quick and the perfect size. Easy to use and easy to clean. No leaks. Great for taking on the go!
Ninja Blast™ Portable Blender Black, 18 oz
Follicular Days (6-13)
Fresh, optimistic, motivated. You're clear headed, open to new ideas, ready to start again. This phase is about getting back into structure, creativity, light workouts, playful routine and goal setting energy.
This is a great matcha to start with —smooth, clean energy that keeps you focused and calm. This is the phase where you’ve actually got energy again — like, “maybe I could clean out the junk drawer” energy — so don’t waste it on a typical caffeine cr...
Matcha Tea Hot 🔥 or Cold ❄️
The perfect kit for making smooth, delicious matcha 🍵😻
Matcha Making Set 🍵
These are my go-to and such and underrated workout tool — theyre a great workout on their own and they’re easy to stash anywhere, or add to any exercise to give you that extra burn, and help build strength without needing heavy weights. Throw them in...
Resistance Bands
Thank me later. This is basically your body’s “coming back to life” week—energy’s up, skin’s renewing, and you’re ready to glow. A few minutes of dry brushing before your shower boosts circulation, wakes you up, and sloughs off dull skin so your mois...
Dry Brush
This app is SO CUTE, and right now (follicular phase—days 6–13) is THE time in your cycle to start using it. Finch is a self-care app that turns building healthy habits into a game—you raise a little bird that “levels up” every time you check off rea...
Finch - Your New Self-Care Best Friend
I have to have it over ice! I just think it tastes the best really cold 😋 but anyway you have it — now in your cycle is a great time! Your estrogen is climbing and your body’s building back up after blood loss. SO load up on greens — they’re packed ...
A Good For You Greens Powder 🍵
This accessible YouTube playlist is your hype squad: bright, feel-good tracks that keep you moving, smiling, and saying yes to life during this come back phase of your cycle. Perfect for morning matcha sipping, cleaning sprees, workouts, or just danc...
🎵 Listen on YouTube via the link and let this be your soundtrack while you glow and go all week long!
🎵 Listen on YouTube via the link and let this be your soundtrack while you glow and go all week long!
Glow & Go Playlist 🎶✨️
Ovulation Days (14-17)
Radiant, confident, magnetic. You feel powerful, social and effortlessly beautiful. You need visibility, connection, intense workouts, date nights, celebration
A cute bold lip combo to get the co fidence BOOSTED 👌🏼 Nars has rich colours that are not over the top, they stay put, and they fade pretty instead of crusty. There's a shade for everyone.
A Bold Lip Duo 💋
Luteal Days (18-28+)
You craving calm simplicity and emotional grounding. Sensitive, intuitive, reflective. You need stability, cozy rituals, grounding meals, soft movement, clear boundaries and permission to slow down 🐌
I love Lush — they’re the best, and my kids are obsessed too. This time of the month, all I want is comfort, and that’s exactly what a Lush bath bomb gives. It’s this bougie little ritual that makes the whole period pregame way less shitty.
Lush Bath Bomb
This is clearly a must for bath girlies. A place to put a nice candle, your phone, a wellness bevy or a glass of wine (or somethings stronger we don't judge) 😆 some snacks and whatever else you need to make your bath time as relaxing as possible 😌
Over the Tub Tray 🛀🫧
A weighted blanket is not just having a warm hug that takes the edge off. It an ADHD girlies nighttime best friend. The extra weight helps calm your nervous system, lower stress, and actually get deeper sleep — which your body is begging for right no...
Weighted Blanket
These socks are just a vibe 😆
Cranky Cat Socks
If you want a trainer that cares, accessible 20 minute yoga flows for a busy mom on the go, Gabby at Serene Moms is who you want to connect with 🫶🏼 her online classes are on demand so you can log in and take them anytime! She also has support chats...
Serene Moms Online Yoga 🧘🏻♀️
I swear by an ice roller when my face feels puffy, inflamed, or just tired this time of the month. It instantly calms my skin, helps with redness, and feels like a mini spa treatment at home. I keep mine in the freezer and use it in the mornings or a...
Ice Roller
Cutest mugs and stuff for the book girlies 💖☕️
A cute go-to mug 💖
Best DIY Coffee Scrub
My go-to scrub for before my period when I’m feeling sluggish, puffy, and irritable in the week before my period and in desperate need of a little refresh. The coffee boosts circulation, the lemon brightens, and the coconut oil leaves you so soft you...
Any ground coffee you would also enjoy drinking! I love this Kicking Horse Three Sisters coffee (it was gifted to me by an old boss I used to have) and Ive loved it since! Ground coffee is great option if you want to make a batch to keep and use when...
Coffee Grounds [1/2 c]
Raw sugar works great for a body scrub but you can also use white if you want a smoother scrub. Ultimately you don't want the grounds too coarse. You want a comfortable scrub that isn't cutting and grinding the skin but buffing and polishing ✨️👌🏼
Raw Sugar [1/2 c]
Coconut oil is perfect for this scrub. It smells amazing and has antimicrobial properties. It also can be used so many different ways and provide countless health benefits
Coconut Oil [1/4 c]
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Lemon juice is a great add for this scrub. It add some extra cleaning and brightness! A squeezer makes things easier!
Lemon Juice 🍋 [1 tbs]
Perfect to hold your coffee scrub 😍
Glass Jar + Scoop Spoon
Period Pre-Game Movie List 🎬
Because sometimes you need to channel your inner Elle Woods Energy 💖👩🎓
Legally Blonde
Southern Charm + 2000s Reese Witherspoon. Comfort at its finest 😆⚡️
Sweet Home Alabama
Perfect for the millenial little girl in all of us who is wondering when we became adults. Plus killer thriller dance scene 👌🏼
13 Going on 30
I know! But TRUST ME! The story is all about breaking generational curses and loving even the parts of you that are hard to love ❤️ AND the music SLAPS so you will be singing, dancing, and crying all that the same time! 🤣
KPop Demon Hunters
A glow up story every girl dreams of. Watching a misunderstood introvert become a beautiful princess is true medicine for my soul.
The Princess Diaries
Peak childhood nostalgia—IDC what ppl say about her sometimes you just need 2000s Lindsay Lohan in double doses.
The Parent Trap
Sandra Bullock proving you can be a hot mess and still be all that! 🔥 Beauty isn't about perfection it's about being authentically YOU!
Miss Congeniality
Jamie Lee Curtis body-swapping chaos is the perfect escape from mom life.
Freaky Friday
Body-swap nostalgia is back with three generations. Laughter + legacy = luteal phase gold
Freakier Friday (2025)