Periods! Blood! Internal Bleeding! Come back, I’m trying to talk to you! There, are all the squeamish people gone? Good. Now, to business. I, like a large percentage of humanity, have periods about once a month. Now periods both due to patriarchal culture, and just the simple nature of how painful and messy they can be are often something we feel deep discomfort talking about. But why? It’s just blood, just the lining of the womb slothing off after our egg has failed to be fertilised that month? What’s so terrible about that, so terrible several of you have no doubt already clicked away? I think we need to talk about it more, after all it’s something that most of us will either experience ourselves sometime in our lives or will be in the vicinity of someone experiencing it. It doesn’t hurt to be a bit more honest and open about it.

And in the spirit of that I’d like to share that I get very painful periods. Agony, is a word that suits them very well. I do take pain meds but they don’t always do a great deal, it’s so much pain it’s very difficult to think at all…which for a writer is slightly unfortunate. But what can you do, you just have to ride it out and hope next month it’s slightly better. So what I do, when I don’t have to work, is lie as still as I can, close my eyes and listen to my music. That is to say, yes, this has all been a very elaborate way of plugging one of my Spotify playlists. Now as it’s quite a long playlist, so obviously I won’t be putting every song down here, so if you’re interested I suggested clicking on the link below to catch the full playlist and see if you can guess which songs will make the cut.

Perfect Songs for when you’re on your Period

Christmas is All Around by Billy Mack

Because sometimes you just want a little fun when you’re in pain.

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