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Amanda Laird is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist™, host of The Heavy Flow Podcast, and the author of Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation, where she examines the history of period shame and stigma, discusses its effects on women’s health and wellness today, and provides a crash course in menstrual self-care. In this episode, we talk about the problems that arise from women’s pain being viewed as normal, how Western culture perpetuates period shame, common menstrual myths, and more!