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Rita and Katie discuss the importance of teaching young girls about cycle tracking and body literacy as a protective measure.

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…

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