The Cycle Book - by Laura Federico & Morgan Miller (Paperback)

About the Book

''A revolutionary, must-have approach to tracking and charting your hormonal cycles--a necessary guide in the pursuit of understanding your own body''--

Book Synopsis

A revolutionary, must-have approach to tracking and charting your hormonal cycles--a necessary guide in the pursuit of understanding your own body

Millions of people track their cycles on apps because it's a convenient way to know when your next period is likely coming. But those apps are also tracking your data, sometimes in ways that are not legal or consensual. And they don't go deep enough. What's worse, they're also leaving users vulnerable to surprisingly inaccurate fertility predictions, with some studies estimating efficacy at about 20 percent for correctly predicting ovulation.
Written by a midwife and a clinical sex therapist, The Cycle Book is the solution. It's the customizable book they dreamed up because they needed it so desperately--for their patients, for their friends, for themselves. Complete with journal prompts and a full year's worth of beautiful, simple-to-use cycle tracking forms, this is daily charting made easy.
When you learn how to track your cycles, you are learning to:

• expand the pleasure in your life

• manage and prevent pain

• regulate your moods and emotions

• chart the ups and downs of a relationship

• understand your period

• ease the symptoms of endometriosis, anxiety, IBS, or perimenopause

Cycle tracking can even be the missing link to getting a chronic illness diagnosis or the final piece of the puzzle in understanding your mental health.
Menstruation is vastly understudied and has not been given its due by science and culture. We've been done wrong! Now, there's a better way. The powerful tool of tracking is so valuable that everyone can learn from it. The Cycle Book is an education. You decide what to track, and Laura and Morgan will help you step-by-step as you take back control over your cycles--and your life.

Review Quotes

"I loved this book. It provides so much practical wisdom about cycle-tracking and systematically removes the hurdles that can make it feel overwhelming. In addition to giving you all the tools you need to monitor your mental and physical health across the cycle, they give you a language to describe things going on in your body that you might be at a loss for otherwise."--Sarah Hill, PhD, author of This is Your Brain on Birth Control

"There is nothing more radical or powerful than understanding how your body works. The Cycle Book is a highly informative and in-depth guide to deciphering your cycle all the way through perimenopause. Of course, tracking your cycle is not new, but if you've felt intimidated by what it is, what it means or how to do it, this is the book for you!" --Aminatou Sow, co-author of the NYT bestseller Big Friendship

"This book offers a much-needed systems-thinking approach to menstruation, bridging the gap between oversimplified explanations and detached, esoteric concepts. It provides a framework to reimagine your relationship with your cycle, helping you decompartmentalize how you think about your period and yourself. It's an essential read." --Erica Chidi, Educator, Doula, and author of Nurture

"In a time when knowing the terrain of and owning our body sovereignty is more important than ever, this book gives you a key to unlocking and understanding the beautiful mystery of your cycles, a sixth vital sign of our essential health."--Aviva Romm MD, Midwife, and author of the NYT bestseller Hormone Intelligence

"Understanding my cycle has always been a lonely struggle. Doctors. Friends. Family. Random people on Reddit. Nobody ever seemed to be able to grasp what wasn't right with me. The Cycle Book is an overdue miracle. Now, I don't just feel less alone--I finally have the tools to help me make sense of it all." --Mackenzie Thomas, artist and writer of the Substack I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT

About the Author

Laura Federico LCSW, CST is an AASECT certified sex and relationship therapist in private practice.

Morgan Miller CPM, LM, IBCLC is a certified professional midwife, activist, and birth center founder in private practice.