Period Queen: Life hack your cycle and own your power all month long

Ladies, meet your four period superpowers! Just like the seasons, there are four phases that keep coming around. Once you learn this self-awareness, you'll come to love and appreciate how your body tells you when to dream, do, give and take. By harnessing the power of your menstrual cycle, you're about to learn the greatest life hack of them all.

For so long, girls are given the 'talk,' then told how to 'manage' their periods - the beginning of a tedious bloody grind, one of the last great taboos. But the truth is the menstrual cycle has benefits. Big, fantastic, daily, monthly, even lifelong benefits which, when understood, will change the lives of half the people on the planet.

Lucy Peach is a folk singer who has worked as a human biology teacher, sexual health educator and theatre maker. She has a Bachelor of Human Biology and Biomedicine with Honours in Medicine, and a Graduate Diploma of Education in Human Biology. Lucy is an independent theatre entertainer, currently performing My Greatest Period Ever (14+) and How to Period Like a Unicorn (all ages) around Australia, including in a TexEx talk. Lucy is about to embark on a PhD researching the impact of novel ways of teaching menstrual education in schools. Lucy is currently working with Mamamia to develop two podcast series, one for women and one for girls.