A place for cyclical beings

A hub for harmonizing your menstrual cycle & realigning with your cyclical rhythms

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An exploration of cyclicality, body literacy, & holistic wellbeing ☾

Moonbeam is a women’s health education hub dedicated to helping cyclical beings harmonize their menstrual cycle through body literacy and holistic practices.

Founded in 2021 by herbalist & women’s health education Sabrina Rose, Moonbeam is a different kind of women’s health platform. It’s real, gritty, sometimes bloody. It understands the self in context of history and society. It’s body, spirit, heart, shadow. Herbs and simple practices. Evidence-based and magical. Subversive and rebellious, but reverent and sacred. Poetic, erotic, esoteric. Rooted, not trendy.

Moonbeam is a space for cyclical beings to explore their cyclical nature & come into harmony with their inherent rhythms.

Here, the cycle is a source of power and wisdom. Like the moon, we wax and wane. To be a cyclical being is to walk the life/death/rebirth spiral ꩜ To bleed is to go through a lifetime of transformative deaths and rebirths.

This is a place that honors the darkness just as much as the light. That recognizes the power in embracing our shadows, in exploring our depths. Here, the underworld isn’t only a necessary part of life — it’s a fertile space ✷

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“While [in the underworld of female knowing], we are infused with instinctive language and knowledge. From that vantage point we understand what cannot be so easily understood from the point of view of the topside world.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Current Offerings

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Current Offerings ✦

Dealing with cramps or PMS? Interested in adding herbs to your cyclical self-care, but not sure how?

Meet Herbs for Cramps & PMS, a guide for building your basket of healing potions that you can carry with you for any cycle-related challenges you might face ✦

Inside, you'll meet 23 herbs for supporting you through cyclical challenges. You'll also find recipes & formulas (like balancing adaptogenic hot chocolate & my go-to cramp ease tea), medicine-making tips (like how to brew a decoction & prepare a womb steam), & a guide to building your home apothecary (like my favorite places to source herbs) 〰

New on the body literacy blog 〰

Body Literacy Blog
A guide to hormonal headaches & migraines 〰
A guide to hormonal headaches & migraines 〰

If you've ever experienced a migraine (or even a bad headache) then you know just how miserable they can be. And chances are, you have experienced one – migraines are three times more common in women than they are in men. Why? Hormonal shifts can be a huge migraine trigger.

Here’s what we can do about it.

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A guide to your vaginal ecosystem ✿
A guide to your vaginal ecosystem ✿

You probably know about your gut microbiome and your skin microbiome, but did you know you also have a unique microbial environment in your vagina? The vaginal microbiome is a diverse ecosystem, teeming with vibrant life. Our overall health influences the health of our vaginal microbiome, and vice versa.

Learn what your vaginal microbiome is, how to keep it lush and thriving, what can disrupt it, and how sex can influence your ecology.

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A guide to nontoxic period products ✦
A guide to nontoxic period products ✦

On average, a woman will use about 15,000 pads or tampons during her life. Despite the fact that half the population use them on a regular basis, the FDA still doesn’t require manufacturers to disclose the ingredients. Many of them — even some of the ones marketed as “clean” — are regularly found to be filled with hormone-disrupting pesticides & dioxins.

All of those toxins right next to our very absorbent, sensitive vaginal tissue on a regular basis? That can lead to some serious issues.

But that doesn’t mean we have to free bleed — we just have to choose carefully. And in order to choose carefully, we need to understand what the potential risks are & how to watch out for them.

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