Samantha Garstin

Hi, I’m Samantha (aka The Period Princess ).

Menstrual Education Coach, Inclusion Specialist and proud Autistic ADHDer.

I’m here to change the conversation around being in a body that bleeds!

I LOVE collaborating with progressive SMEs that genuinely care about supporting their teams… and putting period stigma where it belongs: in the bin

But let’s backtrack, 2015 was happily people-pleasing my way to burnout town (except I was miserable).

I was living from the neck up, completely disconnected from my menstrual cycle thanks to 3 rounds of the Mirena coil.

I had no idea my hormonal rhythms were at play every single day (not just when I was bleeding), and I was totally unaware of my neurodivergence.

But in 2020, I learned something life-changing…

Your menstrual cycle is MORE than just your period.

Once I discovered how to live in tune with my cycles?

Everything started making sense.

I stopped fighting my body’s natural rhythms and started to listen to them instead.

It was like finding the user manual for my own body (shoulda known it was in the glove box )

And now, I spend every waking moment helping other women and people with periods feel at home in their bodies rather than confused, frustrated, or blindsided by them like I was.

Some fun facts about me…

I’m obsessed with surfing as I am menstrual cycles. I have a 9ft blood-red longboard called Mary….. as in Bloody Mary (with moon phases laminated through the stringer, of course ).

In Winter, I switch to snowboarding (we go to Morzine every year), and I worked six ski seasons across Austria and France in my 30’s.

Oh, and I’m team CAT

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