Go with your flow

Annie Carter, host of the Yes You podcast, remembers her first inkling that there was something cyclical about her experiences: “I was feeling really stressed and really anxious one day and, as I was writing in my journal, I felt like I’d written this before. I looked back, and I found that about a month before that, I had felt the same. It was almost verbatim. That’s interesting, I thought. At that point, I didn’t realise that it had anything to do with my own cycle, but it twigged me to the fact that these things come and go,” she says.

The first time I came across the idea of the infradian rhythm (versus or in addition to the circadian rhythm) and its impact on women’s energy levels, creativity, productivity, my jaw dropped. Kate Northrup, the author of , was explaining on a podcast that on top of the universal circadian rhythm, women also have a 28-or-so-day rotation that governs their