Pūr Energy Life - Winter Edition (Dec 2020)

PŪR ENERGY LIFE
INSPIRING STORIES
Dana suffered for years from extreme PMS symptoms that were
debilitating and severely impacting the quality of her life.
Learn how she managed to transform her “pain into purpose”
and now it is her passion to work with women (and even men and
children!) to understand and embrace the cyclic wave.
The Painful Past
I once was an ambitious young woman working in an academic environment, inflicted by a ‘little’
problem every month: PMS. Although I was using contraceptives to regulate my menstrual cycle and
reduce the symptoms, once a month for a few days, I was totally useless. I was feeling as if I had
barbed wire in my underbelly and my brain refused to work (which totally blocked me in my work, be
it preparing courses for my students, teaching, translating or writing articles). There was nothing I could
do apart from waiting for the moment that blood started to flow and the spasms subside.
On one occasion, it went so far that I almost fainted while waiting at an office.
But from a medical viewpoint, I was absolutely fine. The only solution was to take
painkillers to help with the debilitating pain.
Emerging Hope
I believe in synchronicities, and the turning point for
my suffering was when a friend of mine brought me
a film called Moon Inside You by a Slovakian
director, Diana Fabiánová. The film opened up a
new and unknown area to me – it showed me that
the menstrual cycle is something different than only
a few annoying days of pain. It showed me that the
menstrual cycle has another, more profound
meaning, which we were never told about.
Pain-Free and Full of Passion
The breakthrough for me was the moment I realised that pain and suffering was only an option – but it
was the only option I thought I had at the time. I stopped focusing on the negative symptoms and I even
stopped dreading the days that my menstrual phase would arrive.
And my pain didn’t reduce; it disappeared altogether!
I decided to learn more about the menstrual cycle and I came across books by Miranda Gray: Red
Moon and The Optimized Woman. And this is where my journey started, as I was inspired to share this
with other women and teach them how to start enjoying life with all the gifts that our cycle brings to us.
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