You know God created your body with loving intention, but truly embracing it as a gift often feels like an uphill battle.
Bombarded by messages that measure your worth as a woman by your shape and size, it’s easy to feel disconnected from your body’s goodness. You long to see your body as purposeful and sacred—a place to meet God, not a problem to fix.
about cyclewise
CycleWise helps women discover the wisdom of their female design and experience their bodies as sacred spaces to encounter Christ.
If you’ve ever felt that standard approaches to spiritual growth fail to address important parts of your female experience, but you want to stay within the bounds of Scripture and orthodox theology, you’re in the right place.
About Chelsey
I’ve spent much of my life hating my body. For years, living in female flesh meant feeling shameful, vulnerable, and cursed.
Fortunately, throughout my journey of healing, God invited me into a radically different understanding of female embodiment.
This vision deepened as I completed an MA in Systematic Theology from Wheaton College, continued my studies at Theology of the Body Institute, became certified in fertility awareness through FEMM, and studied cycle awareness with experts worldwide. Through this journey, I created CycleWise—a distinctly Christian approach to engaging the female body as a place of holy encounter.
To say this was impactful for me would be an understatement... I have pages and pages in my journal of how incredible this material is! I'm STILL chewing on this feast almost a year later."
UNDERSTANDING CYCLEWISE
THE DEEPER WHY
I love the Church, and I care deeply about women...
Sometimes, these two things can feel at odds. But it doesn't have to be this way.
I have a deep love for the Christian tradition, and I’m awed by the Holy Spirit’s faithfulness in guiding the development of orthodox theology across time. That said, the vast majority of formal Christian theological and spiritual reflection has been done by men, and at least until the last few centuries, the women who’ve been able to contribute to this effort have almost always been celibate nuns.
Furthermore, only in the last hundred years have we begun to shed inaccurate views of female physiology and appreciate the brilliant complexity of women’s bodies.
Thus, if we imagine the Christian tradition as an oak tree that’s been growing into its fullness for two thousand years, it is safe to say that parts of this tree which relate to women’s spiritual and embodied experiences are fairly underdeveloped.
However…
Because we serve a God who loves women, created us in his image, and took on human flesh within the female body, redemptive narratives around women’s embodied experiences are already implicitly present in both Scripture and orthodox theology.
As the Church is increasingly able to benefit from both better understandings of female bodies and more diverse female theological voices, I believe the Holy Spirit is guiding us to more fully understand the good news of the Gospel as it relates to and is experienced by women. I feel deeply called to participate in this movement and maturation of the Church.
