Follicular Energy, Luteal Doom, and Actually Understanding Your Cycle with Consciously Cait

Dec 4, 2025

Consciously Cait, a fertility awareness educator, shares invaluable insights about understanding menstrual cycles. She dispels myths about periods being the cycle's main event and discusses the nuances of PMDD versus PMS. Cait provides practical tips for each cycle phase, including dietary needs during the luteal phase and how to align your business activities with your energy levels. Listeners learn effective tracking methods and the significance of cervical mucus, ensuring they can work harmoniously with their bodies.

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INSIGHT

Ovulation Is The Cycle's Core

The menstrual cycle has four distinct phases and the period (menstrual bleeding) is not the central event of the cycle.
Ovulation is the pivotal event that the cycle orients around and determines subsequent hormonal shifts.

INSIGHT

Luteal Distress Isn’t Just ‘Moodiness’

Severe luteal symptoms can indicate PMDD or interactions with neurodivergence like ADHD.
Social and lifestyle stressors that chronically dysregulate you can amplify luteal-phase distress.

ADVICE

Fuel Your Luteal Phase

Eat 200–400 extra calories in the luteal phase and prioritize regular meals with protein, carbs, and fat.
Make eating simple (smoothies, protein in coffee, convenience foods) if ADHD or low appetite prevents elaborate meals.

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If you've ever scheduled a full day of client calls during your luteal phase, this episode is for you.

Or if you've ever thought "I'm so hormonal right now" while on your period (you're literally not btw!), this episode is ALSO for you.

In this episode, I sit down with Cait from Consciously Cait — fertility awareness educator and cervical mucus expert — to break down the four phases of your cycle, why your luteal phase isn't actually trying to ruin your life, and how tracking your cycle is so much more than just logging when your period starts in some random, data-hungry app.

TOPICS & TANGENTS

— Why your period is NOT the main character of your cycle

— PMDD vs. regular PMS

— Why you need 200-400 extra calories in your luteal phase (and a juicy steak on day one)

— Why predictive apps are lying to you

— The difference between discharge and cervical mucus (my main takeaway!)

— Aligning your business with your cycle: what to do in each phase

— How to track your cycle when you have ADHD and forget everything

POINT OF THE STORY

When you actually understand what's happening in your body during each phase, you can work WITH your cycle instead of against it. And maybe, just maybe, stop planning launches during your luteal phase.

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CAIT LINKS

— Follow Cait on Instagram and Threads

— Check out her website

— Grab her freebie, THE BIG O

— Download her cycle tracking spreadsheet

— Learn how to confidently chart your cycle and use FAM as birth control in Fam Formul

— Cait’s walkout song

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