Good Flow: Your Holistic Guide to the Best Period of Your Life

by Julia Blohberger

With this empowering handbook, a better period is possible!

If you menstruate, you’ve probably experienced unpredictable cycles, mood swings, cravings, and unpleasant physical symptoms. We’re often encouraged to treat period discomfort as inevitable. The good news is that you don’t need to.

This handbook from two certified yoga and Ayurveda teachers will give you the information and tools you need to feel your best when you normally feel at your worst. Good Flow
Advice on eating, exercising, and introspecting for every stage of your cycleRecipes for herbal tonics to ease cramping and bloating, as well as personal rituals for soothing discomfortJournal prompts for reflecting on your cycle, your body, and how you care for yourselfMonthly trackers to record and manage symptomsAnd more!
Learn how to take action no matter what kind of menstruation experience you’re having so you can feel like your best self.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 26, 2023

Reviews

[Kriti | Armed with A Book]

The primary aim of this book is to develop a positive attitude towards menstruation. I loved the art work and the journal prompts. The book had longitudinal suggestions on how to keep a naturally occurring cyclic routine by aligning with the lunar cycle if someone does not have periods.

Good Flow brings information from Ayurveda and yogic sources, listing foods that can be enjoyed at different times of the cycle, the seasons in the cycle, a few meditations to try out and herbal teas that would be soothing. The contents of this book are based on the experiences of the authors. There is no research listed for any of the suggestions.

Overall, the book has a cozy feel, with helpful information about menstruation as well as guidelines on how to develop a kinder relationship with the body. I would have loved it as a teenager. In my 30s, I still liked the book and flew through it in just a couple hours.

I consider this more of a spiritual book. It felt good to read about periods from another point of view. Most of Good Flow is focused on the five days of menstruation. There was potential for this book to be better. The idea of knowing the body and the cycle could have been solidified further by sharing techniques of charting the cycle.

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[Karli Sherwinter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is not very informational, and is more of a journal for people to write their own thoughts and feelings about their periods. I imagine that most people who pick up this book have already thought a lot about their own menstrual cycles. If that is not the case, then, perhaps there is some value in understanding the natural cycle of menstruation, and taking some time to consider the body’s need for rest and restoration on a monthly basis. I will try some of the meditations, and buy some fresh ginger and cinnamon sticks to make a tea this month. We’ll see if those rituals are helpful.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick read about being period positive or at least making it semi-positive. It's very alternative, I'm not sure how much of it I'll actually use, but there are some ideas in there about supplements and diet that might be interesting to try.