Body Literacy
for Adolescents and Teens
The Marriage and Family Life Office is happy to partner with Pearl & Thistle to provide age-appropriate,
scientifically-accurate online workshops and books that empowers girls to know and understand their cycles for health and self knowledge.
Cycle Prep
Parent + daughter menarche workshop for girls ages 9-13
If you're asking "When should I start talking to my daughter about periods?" start here.
Cycle Prep is a first period course to prep your daughter - and you - for her menstrual cycle.
This self paced online course is available in English and Spanish. For in person opportunities at
local schools and parishes see "Cycle Prep Public Opportunities Below"
What Parents Should Know
About (Pre)Teen Periods
Parent workshop
A course to prepare moms, dads, and caregivers with all the information and tools YOU want to know
to feel more confident guiding our daughter through the tween and teen years of menstrual cycles.
This self paced online course is available in English.
Cycle Charting For Girls
Book for girls ages 11-18
Imagine if we didn't wait until a woman was ready to have kids to understand her cycles.
Cycle Charting for Girls is a teen-friendly handbook for learning the basics of charting cycles:
what's "normal," how to read the language of our cycles, and even using cycles to track energy and mood swings.
This book is available in English and an online course in Spanish.
Anatomy, Fertility and Reproduction
for Catholic Teens
Workshop for teen girls and boys ages 15+
"The talk," but make it Catholic and done in the privacy of your own home. Rooted in the richness of St. John Paul II's
Theology of the Body and science, you'll unpack the gift of our fertility through the lens of our Catholic faith - sans the awkwardness.
This self paced online course is available for in home use or classroom/group use.
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