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Beth Moxon’s favourite topic is, you guessed it, PERIODS, which I am totally here for! Beth channels her inner fire to ensure that menstrual shame is a thing of the past. She is a powerhouse who is educating her own community through holding First Moon Circles, and is starting big conversations on TikTok where a huge proportion of children now receive their menstrual education.
Meet Beth
Beth Moxon is a cyclical living guide in East Sussex, England, a qualified and highly experienced secondary school teacher who now trains teachers. She is a certified Cycle Coach and First Moon Circle facilitator and has extensive experience holding space for young people and adults. She is highly skilled and knowledgeable in all things menstruality related and loves to share her passion and knowledge by running local First Moon Circles. She has two little daughters who keep her busy during the times when she’s not thinking about periods!
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The different ‘tell’ signs our bodies give us 24h before we start bleeding,
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Why Beth doesn’t believe in resting for the whole period, how she shows up for a podcast on Cycle Day 2, and how she supports herself through it instead,
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Beth’s story and journey to doing the amazing work she does today,
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Her perspective of the (UK) school period education guidelines, the limitations schools are under, changing the perspective that schools need to cover it all, and how she is stepping up to contribute another layering of education for children and parents.
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Her vision for children and the right she believes all children have to a high quality, empowering menstrual education,
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The power of language, and how we perpetuate menstrual shame without realising it through the words we use,
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We share memories of both being teenage swimmers who feared the erroneous tampon string, and other stories of hiding periods in schools,
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How Beth is taking on TikTok to reach a wider audience, so she can educate adults and children,
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and so much more…..
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Charlotte Pointeaux
Charlotte Pointeaux is an Internationally Award-Winning triple-Certified Coach, Youth Mentor, Host of Wild Flow Podcast, a sought-after guest menstrual educator and speaker. She is a Shamanic Womancrafter, a Priestess of the Cycle Mysteries.
Charlotte’s work as a Wild Feminine Cycle Coach weaves together shamanic womb healing and rite of passage work with menstrual cycle awareness and feminine embodiment tools, to guide women through their transformational journey of reclaiming their wild feminine cyclic powers to expressing their big magick as a sacred leader.
Charlotte founded First Moon Circles®, a renowned facilitator training program, to train new menstrual educators to prepare, honour and celebrate children and their care-givers at menarche (their first period). To date, she has trained almost 100 facilitators across 5 continents and is on a mission to infuse families, friendships, classrooms and communities with period positivity and menstrually inclusive practices.
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