The Justisse Method
The Justisse Method is a system for learning fertility awareness and developing body literacy. Its fertility awareness component adapts elements of the Ovulation (mucus) and Sympto-Thermal methods of fertility awareness, also called natural family planning. The Ovulation Method uses a cycle event - the discharge of cervical mucus - to determine times of fertility and infertility in a woman’s menstrual cycle. The Sympto-Thermal method uses a perceptible SHIFT in the basal body temperature chart as well as cervical mucus symptoms.
The knowledge of Justisse Method fertility awareness is useful for women who:
- Are searching for ways to avoid pregnancy without using hormonal contraceptive drugs or mechanical birth control devices
- Are wanting to become pregnant
- Want to develop body literacy so they may better understand the unfolding of their own cycles of menstruation and ovulation
- Are stopping the use of hormonal contraceptives and want to monitor the return of their fertility
- Want to understand and better manage their transition to menopause.
The purpose of this guide is to give basic fertility awareness instruction, which is the foundation of the Justisse Method. The guide may be used alone for self instruction. However, it is best used along with instruction and follow-up by a trained Justisse HOLISTIC REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PRACTITIONER (HRHP).
Justisse Method Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioners (HRHP) are trained to teach women the Justisse Method, to practice the principles for holistic health management, and to be receptive to a woman’s particular cultural, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs. The Justisse HRHP helps a make more fully informed sexual and reproductive health choices based on her individual reproductive health circumstances.
To use the Justisse Method a woman needs to learn how her reproductive system works – how to recognize reproductive cycle events that tell her when she is fertile and when she is not – how to recognize when her menstrual cycle is healthy and when it is not – and how to chart, or keep track, of her reproductive cycle (menstrual cycle events). This guide provides information that will help her do this. This guide opens you up to a new awareness of how your body works in addition to allowing you to manage it alone or with the guidance of an HRHP. If you experience any difficulty in using or interpreting the information in this guide then contact a HRHP (info@justisse) to help you be successful in your purpose.
Learning begins with understanding basic reproductive anatomy and physiology.