I have been charting my cycle for 8 years, since January 2017 (when I was 20 years old). I first learnt through the book “Taking Charge of Your Fertility” by Toni Wescheler. I then took a private session with Sarah from The Well to ensure I was practising everything correctly.

I started training as an educator with the NFPTA in 2020 but was interrupted by illness and then chose not to complete the training as I felt it wasn’t meeting my needs or increasing my knowledge. I’m therefore not certified as an NFPTA educator although I did participate in some of their training.

I have been teaching since 2019. 1-1 and in groups. I have various colleagues who studied and practice FAM with whom I consult for challenging charts.

I wrote my Masters Thesis: “Women’s experiences of fertility awareness based methods and their sexual selfhood – Empowered women armed with knowledge”. I interviewed many women tracking their cycle for this thesis. I also corresponded personally with Toni Weschler during this time who speculated that I may be one of the youngest women that she knows of who started tracking their cycle using a symptothermal method, at the age of 20.

I have built an online course for cycle tracking. I also run a Facebook group with over 4000 women around natural contraception and am using this as an education platform to spread awareness on FABM.