Current Methods: FEMM and Justisse
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- Tell us a little about yourself.I'm a fertility awareness educator and an Orthodox Christian priest's wife. I'm very passionate about aligning my life with the patterns set in nature, and strive to always be growing more close to my design as a human being by peeling away layers of modernity. We are planning towards having a homestead at some point. Our children will be homeschooled. We will not inject or circumcise any of our children. I gave birth at home, and hope to freebirth in the future. I am training to be a radical birth keeper to support women with non-medical model birth support and women planning freebirths. I love gardening, sewing, reading, writing, herbalism, and any other handicraft and traditional skill. I am learning a lot this year, partly propelled by the instability brought by the tyranny of the past 1.5 year, and concerns about the future as Christians in the developing global technocratic systems of oppression that seek to overtake all our food, supply chains, bodies, mobility, and free thinking. I've been learning fermentation, sourdough baking, and more about traditional nourishing cooking. I have some college education, and was fully homeschooled, but shifted to pursing training in my specific interests as I believe the education system is a culturally-pushed conveyer belt trying to create faith-less activists to serve the powers that be, all the while believing themselves to be radical and counter-cultural.
- What effects has fertility awareness had on your relationship?We've only ever practiced FAM, and I seriously geek out about it and about everything to do with women's health and nourishing our family's health. It's also my job. So I don't have a comparison to a marriage without FAM. But I do feel that I am much more empowered an grounded in my own authority over my own health and body than what I've seen with women who do not have FAM. I love sharing my CM observations with my husband, and the bathroom sometimes looks like a laboratory, we joke, because I have so many fertility products 'm testing for review writing. It's very informal and just a part of our daily life. We chat about our intentions when a new cycle starts (unless we know 100% we're avoiding, like before conceiving our first child, and for the first year and more of postpartum). And we touch base about where I am in my cycle when we're intimate...sometimes a little last minute. I feel bad that my husband doesn't have a cool chart to track his health haha though I think he gets plenty of charting talk from me...maybe too much. But I biohack his health and I'm always nourishing his own fertility as well as my own , and we detox and avoid EMFs and fluoride and only eat local and organic, so we are always conscious together of feeding our health and fertility.
- First Method: FEMM - How did you find your instructor?I am my instructor. I am a FEMM teacher. 🙂
- Describe your daily charting routine.I've been charting officially (like more than period tracking) since 2016 when I was single and 21. I'm 26 now and a mother. I chart a combination of FEMM, Justisse, and Sensiplan. I also incorporate FSH, LH, and PdG testing, as well as a Kegg estrogen electrolyte monitor. (I'm testing products for review, even though I don't promote or strongly beleive inthe use of FemTech for charting...I prefer the idea of a sovereign women who just charts with tissue or sensation). I love charting, so I really consider it to be as a much of a hobby as it is a health tool.
- What made you choose this method?I teach the FEMM method. I trained to teach Justisse for 1 year, but left that program and switched to doing my 2nd year with FEMM. I find that my students learn the FEMM CM categories more quickly, and it gets the job done. There also is no witchiness, which was a huge factor. I wish FEMM promoted BBT more.
- Has charting helped you to understand your overall health?Absolutely! Because of charting I transitioned over a few years from starved anorexic stressed vegan to nourished and whole Weston A Price style traditional eating. It helped me to prioritize my nutrition, because eI saw the starvation of many years on my charts. I now eat so much saturated fat, organs, eggs, raw milk, cod liver oil, caviar and the like, and I've never been healthier.
- Did you switch to this method from another one? If so, why?I did TCOYF first, then Justisse, then FEMM. I now do Justisse and FEMM at the same time, in separate rows on my chart. FEMM gives my a simple quick overview with notes, and Justisse coding gives me very specific data about what I observed. I like the combo I have going.
- Second Method: Justisse - How did you find your instructor?I was training to chart Justisse while in the Justisse HRHP program for 1 year. The total program was $15,000 CAD, and I paid 1/2. It was outrageous for the quality of education...I left that program after being discriminated against for being Christian and married. And I also left because a huge portion of the training was focused on the specifics of abortion.
- Describe your daily charting routine.See before.
- What made you choose this method?I love the specificity of Justisse. Even though I teach FEMM, I still chart Justisse as well as FEMM because I love the codes that tell me the exact color, texture, and inches of stretch of my mucus.
- Did you switch to this method from another one? If so, why?Because I switched my teacher training to FEMM, I now chart both FEMM and Justisse.
