My NY Resolution: Body Literacy for EVERYONE
Hadley Gallen | JAN 9
Hi %FIRSTNAME%,
Comedienne Mickey Overman has this great bit in which she says:
"I was a teenage girl in the early 2000s. The ONLY thing we trained for was to NOT. GET. PREGNANT. That was our entire training! That was ALL the life advice that we received, was just Do Not Get Pregnant... If you get pregnant, your life will be OVER!"

Does this so-called 'life advice' sound familiar?
That pretty much sums up the 'life advice' I received in Sex Ed. Nothing about ovulation. Nothing about how the ovulation cycle actually worked, about how long sperm can survive, nothing about REAL physiology. The vagueness of it left me with the illusion that pregnancy was something that could happen at any time in my cycle, and the fear that an unplanned pregnancy would ruin my life.
Fear is an incredible motivator. It gets us to comply. It makes us predictable, gets us to buy whatever solution promises to make our problems go away, instead of trusting ourselves.
But KNOWLEDGE protects us, makes us feel safe, deepens our self-trust and helps us navigate challenges with calm and confidence.
If I had known then how my body REALLY worked, I would have done SO many things differently!
(Personal story time...)
I probably wouldn't have used Plan B while I was on NuvaRing, had I known that my birth control prevented me from ovulating and that Plan B only works before ovulation (more on that here!). I probably wouldn't have felt so panicked and helpless, desperately waiting to see if my 'period' would arrive (which, by the way, I would have also known wasn't a real period since I wasn't ovulating!).
What if instead we had the KNOWLEDGE to know how to listen to our bodies? To understand the language of our Fertile Signs so you're never in the dark again? It assures you peace of mind, gives you confidence, and sets you free.
For any donation amount over $50, you can have access to the freedom that is rightfully yours, so you never have so feel small and uncertain again.
Love
Hadley
Hadley Gallen | JAN 9
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