Episode
What Is The Danger In Not Teaching Young Girls Cycle Tracking?
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- Health and Hormones
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- May 1, 2026
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- 1667
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Summary
What if teaching our daughters about their cycles wasn’t a slippery slope, but actually one of the most protective gifts we can give them? In this episode, Rita sits down with her dear friend Katie Vidmar — body literacy and fertility awareness educator, founder of the Body Literacy Project. Together they tackle one of the harder questions Catholic and Christian moms quietly wrestle with: Will teaching my daughter about her fertile signs lead her astray? Katie’s answer — rooted in faith, science, and real stories — might shift the way you think about this entirely. What Rita and Katie Unpack The story of a friend who grew up feeling deep shame about a normal sign of health — and the conversation with her mom years later that changed how she’d raise her own daughters Why keeping women illiterate of their bodies is, in Lisa Hendrickson-Jack’s words, “an act of systematic disempowerment” — and how that applies on both sides of the cultural conversation How body literacy actually has a protective effect on adolescent behavior (with research to back it up) The connection between body literacy and the pro-life cause — why seeing your own body as sacred matters When to start the conversation with your daughter (hint: earlier than you think) A story of a 15-year-old whose cycle tracking led to a diagnosis of premature ovarian insufficiency — and how root-cause care addressed her clinical anxiety without psych meds Why hormonal contraception, even when prescribed for “symptom management,” carries risks most women are never told about Resources Mentioned The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack Teen Star — research on body literacy and sexual risk avoidance education Dr. Richard Fehring’s research on hormonal contracepti…