Menstrual health is mental health. Yet, it’s often overlooked in conversations about emotional well-being. Join us for Menstrual Health = Mental Health, a thought-provoking virtual panel that brings together health and wellness practitioners from across North America to explore the deep connection between the menstrual cycle and mental health.
This event is designed to challenge misconceptions, provide insightful perspectives, and empower individuals to understand their cycles as an essential part of their overall well-being.
What to Expect
Mind-Blowing Relationships: uncover powerful truths about the interconnectedness of menstrual health and mental health that you didn’t learn in school
Expert Advice: Gain practical tips to support your mental health goals in alignment with your menstrual cycle.
Empowering Perspectives: Walk away with insights to offer compassion and take action to shift your mental health moving forward.
Meet the Panelists
Holly Naraine, B.Sc(Hon), M.A. Candidate in Counselling Psychology, RP(Qualifying)
Holly(she/her) is a queer woman of colour, equestrian, auntie and registered psychotherapist (qualifying) at Positive Space Consulting. She combines her background in social justice studies and psychology to create an intersectional feminist informed approach to therapy. Holly is passionate about supporting other LGBTQ+ people of colour in healing from trauma and improving their overall well-being. Her practice draws from her lived experience as a marginalized person navigating cis-het and predominantly white spaces, lending to her unconditional care and empathy towards her clients. Holly is conducting her master’s thesis on therapists’ experiences providing equine-facilitated psychotherapy with BIPOC clients and trauma survivors.
Heather Litster, BSc, HHP, Menstrual Educator & Workshop Facilitator
Heather (she/her) is an Award Winning Holistic Health Practitioner & Menstrual Educator based out of Ontario who supports busy folks to take control of their health from the ground up.
Heather helps bridge gaps in current health care systems by empowering individuals & community leaders with knowledge & tools for body literacy. She is the Founder of both Moon & Bloom and the Cycles of Change Project - a photo project that aims to reduce stigmas around menstruality through photographs of normal period situations.
Whitney Jones YTT, PT, CNC, Reiki Practitioner, Womb & Menstrual Wellness Educator
Whitney (she/her) is a Womb and Menstrual Health Educator whose work with women emphasizes connection, healing, and pleasure for the most sacred feminine center, the yoni. Her offerings include womb-aware yoga and meditation, menstrual cycle education, reiki, and much more! She is also a dedicated artist and sculptor that specializes in vulva casting and yoni art in order to uplift and celebrate the Divine Feminine that resides in us all. Her company, Sacred Womb Connection, offers products and services that support women’s empowerment as they journey home to their womb’s wisdom.
Sheena Howard, BNSc, MA, RN, Psychotherapist & Nursing Business Expert
Sheena (she/they) is a nurse psychotherapist, business firestarter, and unapologetic disruptor of the status quo. She built the award-winning Acceptance Nurse Psychotherapy—the only full-service mental health clinic in Canada owned and staffed entirely by nurses—to deliver fierce, compassionate mental health care for children, youth, and adults. She also created BizNurse Savvy to help nurses turn their brilliance into bold, profitable businesses. Diagnosed with ADHD later in life, Sheena became obsessed (in the best way) with how hormones and cycles impact the ADHD brain. She speaks fluent nursing, therapy, strategy, and boldness. She brings a megaphone to the convos most people whisper about— she’s not just raising her voice, she’s raising the standard (and a few eyebrows, too).
Nat Daudet, MSW, Cycle Coach, Certified Fertility Awareness Educator
Nat Daudet is a double-certified fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle coach and the founder of Fertility Awareness Project and Fertility Knowledge Collective. Hundreds of people worldwide have learned to chart their menstrual cycle for birth control with her online course, Cycle Love.
Event Details
🗓️ Date: May 6th, 2025
🕖 Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
💻 Location: Virtual and Replay available (Link provided upon registration)
💲 Cost: $15 or Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC) – proceeds support the Cycles of Change Project. (email for PWYC)
A PERSONAL NOTE:
I’m writing this message from my living room floor before my partner wakes, with the windows open. Birds are chirping, there some construction happening, and the sun is shining through onto my cheeks.
It’s before 7, which I remember a time that I was like “EW GOD DAVID” nothing good happens before 10 am.
My mental health was not so good those days.
Because I also remember a time (maybe I was 11) where morning was my favourite time of day. Where I was excited for 5 am wake ups for busy garage sales & the smell of worms and crisp air on my cheeks.
Interestingly enough, it was 7th grade where I started disliking mornings. Some say it was the puberty. I say, probably was! My hormones were absolutely raging at that time. but that’s also when my mental health started on a rapid decline.
The next 10-12 years was tough. A lot of struggles. Between moving, my dad getting into and recovering from a horrible car accident and my family home burning down. “Regulating my nervous system” wasn’t an option, or even something we knew about at the time.
There eventually came a time where I learned about how life & hormone cycles affect how we process and respond to things in our external and internal worlds.
It changed my life.
I now can flow through all the hard shite and be able to support my community and myself again. I can now take time for me.
That started with my awareness that Menstrual Health IS mental health.
Which is why I’ve teamed up with this incredible experts for our next period panel in support of the Cycles of Change Project.
Support a Great Cause
All proceeds from the event will go toward covering artist and administrative fees for the Cycles of Change Project, dedicated to empowering menstrual health conversations and initiatives.
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