Talking About Your Period: Holiday Edition

The conversations during the holidays tend to cover what you’ve been up to, who you’re dating, how work is going, and your plans for the future. Have you ever brought up your period during those holiday conversations? Maybe now is the time to broach the subject with your loved ones, telling them all about your flow and cycle.

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That may sound like it could come across as a little strong, but it doesn’t have to. You can slip period talk into conversations with loved ones—and you should. While it might not be the conversation you segue into after chatting about your love life, periods can accompany conversations about how you’ve been doing emotionally and physically. After all, it’s all tied together. So, if you’re on the fence about period talk, here are a few reasons that might sway you to touch on the subject over a glass of wine or a mug of hot cocoa.

The Holidays Are Perfect for Fireside Chats

The holiday season is the perfect time to snuggle up in a cozy room with a mug of cocoa and good company. You can chat about anything during those moments with friends, family, or your significant other, including periods.

Periods and period care are multifaceted subjects. There’s a lot to cover, such as cycles, dissatisfaction around period waste, modern products like period cups and period underwear, and how to make the first phase of your cycle as easy (and as sustainable) as possible. Those fireside chats are a great time to get more information from people with more experience using reusable period care products or to share the information you’ve gained through your time using a reusable cup, disc, or leakproof underwear.

It’s the Ideal Time to Upgrade Your Period Care

If you’d like to upgrade your period care products, the holidays are a great time to ask for a gift card, treat yourself, or request an item. You might want a reusable cup for period flow or an electronic steamer to sanitize your product, and maybe your parent, significant other, or sibling will get it for you. Not everyone would feel comfortable with asking for a specific product like a period cup or disc, but that’s where gift cards can come in handy. Mention your favorite brand and direct a person where to go. They might already know what’s important to you and realize that switching to a sustainable product is your ideal way to enter the new year after the holidays.

Periods Are Important

Have you ever felt so strongly about a subject that it didn’t matter if it was considered taboo? Period talk is often lumped together in “subjects to avoid during family time” because it can make people without periods uncomfortable or turn into a political conversation, but that’s not your problem. You might not want to have a full-blown discussion on the tampon tax (or you do, and that’s fine, too), but it’s important for people to understand that you don’t shy away from period talk. It’s important for the future. Educating others on cycles and periods is a step toward helping people with periods—siblings, parents, children, and friends—feel safer and more comfortable in different environments and their bodies.

Periods fit right in with casual holiday conversation; you don’t even have to bring them up in the middle of the big holiday dinner. The point of mentioning your period is to desensitize people to the topic and maybe to ask for leakproof underwear instead of socks or regular panties. Periods are a part of life—they’re a part of your life and pretty much everyone else’s, whether they have a period or not. The best thing you can do this holiday season is to give yourself the gift of a breath of fresh air, knowing periods are no longer on your list of holiday taboo topics.

About Saalt

When you’re ready to change how you see your period, Saalt will provide the rose-colored lenses you put on at the beginning of every cycle. Okay, they’ll actually provide the high-quality period care products you will turn to for a comfortable, leak-free period—but it’s basically the same thing. Saalt’s collection of period cups, discs, leakproof panties, and period care accessories like steamers and washing solutions is ideal for giving you a new perspective on periods. With the proper care and attention for your body and your flow, you might start to say things like, “Je vois la vie en rose” because sometimes, everything looks a little better in pink (and sounds even better in French). Saalt works hard so that everyone can think of their period in a positive light, and with Saalt, it’s definitely a realistic view.

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