8 Books to Read on Your PMDD Healing Journey

They might just rewire your subconscious mind and make you fall in love with your menstrual cycle

Brett Buchert · January 16, 2025

The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods + PMDD by Shalene Gupta 🔎

This book needed to be written! Details the history of menstruation, PMS, PMDD and the ongoing challenges with diagnosis and treatment and simply living with PMDD. This is a PMDD must read.

Period Power by Maisie Hill 🩸

This book sparked my entry into the world of menstrual cycle awareness and I couldn't be more grateful. Goes deep in menstrual physiology, hormones, science, and also ways to embrace the four phases of the menstrual cycle.

Wild Power by Alexandra Pope + Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer ✨

If you're ready to go deeper in understanding your cycle as the container of creativity, intuition, expression and growth it is, this is THE book. One of my all-time favorites.

Red Moon by Miranda Gray 🌙

A classic on the feminine archetypal journey of the menstrual cycle across the four phases - hag, virgin, mother, sorceress - rewriting the story from our first bleed to our last.

Her Blood is Gold by Lara Owen 🌟

A story that will have you truly loving your bleed. I think one of the ways I've healed PMDD is through coming to love menstruation so freakin' much and the window into my deepest self the cycle provides.

Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler♀️

The Fertility Awareness Method bible. Whether you practice FAM for birth control or to conceive, there's so much beauty in being able to tune in and observe the physiological fertility signs we experience each month for growing appreciation for our cyclical nature.

Blood, Bread, + Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy Grahn 🌹

A new one in my library presenting a powerful re-interpretation of the "origin of man" through the origin of WOMAN and the initiation of menstruation. Paradigm-shifting!

Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution by Jennifer Block ✊🏼

When you understand the history of gynecology and the many controversies and mistruths along the way, PMDD comes into new light. Maybe it's not a broken body, but a broken system.

Which ones have you read so far?