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Fertility Education for Mothers and Daughters

Cherry Blossom Teen Charting is a fertility education ministry for mothers and daughters that is based upon the vision of fertility and chastity education in The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, a document by the Pontifical Council for the Family.  
Through our online, self-paced cycle awareness programs, we support mothers and their daughters as they  journey together through the reproductive phase of adolescence.  Our courses will teach your daughter how to chart her cycle signs and symptoms, accurately pinpoint when her menstrual period is due, teach her nutritional strategies to keep her cycle healthy, and empower her to discover God's plan for the feminine design.  Our comprehensive approach also teaches mothers how the adolescent cycle develops and matures so that you can confidently monitor your daughter's reproductive health.  We are so happy that you have found our site and feel blessed to assist you in the great task of forming your daughter in a vision of true Christian womanhood.
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We invite you to explore our 
courses!

Our Charting Programs

3 Cycle Awareness Charting Systems

Each designed for a unique stage in the
development of the adolescent cycle

Blossom

Blossom is designed for girls who are not yet cycling.  The program teaches girls simple cervical mucus observations and BBT to enable them to pinpoint 1 to 2 weeks in advance when their first menstrual period will begin. 

Bloom

Bloom is for girls, ages 11 to 15, who are cycling.  Bloom uses an ovulation-method approach to enable girls to accurately pinpoint when the menstrual period is due.  A supplement is available for girls who wish to chart BBT.

Beauty Revealed

Beauty Revealed is for young women, ages 16 to 22, whose cycles are approaching the reproductive stage of maturity.  The program uses a sympto-hormonal approach to give young women experience charting all of the signs.  
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Which course is 
right for your
daughter?

Authentically Catholic

Since 2019, Cherry Blossom Teen Charting has been assisting mothers and daughters, parishes, and Catholic dioceses with our cycle awareness programs. Our courses not only teach girls and young women how to chart the cycle, but they are also designed according to the Catholic Church's specific guidelines for education on fertility education, love, and sexuality in the Pontifical Council for the Family's document, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.   

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This beautiful document divides childhood physical and psychological development into 4 distinct phases, which it calls the Principle Stages of Development, and explains what is appropriate for children to learn within each stage. Our Blossom and Bloom programs are built upon the guidelines for the stage of Puberty, while our Beauty Revealed Program follows the guidelines for the stages of Adolescence in One's Plan in Life and Toward Adulthood. Designing our programs both upon the TMHS Principle Stages of Development and basing them upon gynecological age ensures mothers that their daughters will only be learning content that is appropriate to both their psychological and physiological development.

Certified Instructor  Support

The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality also emphasizes the mothers role as primary educator 
 and states that fertility education is best done in the home in a 1-on-1 setting. The document also acknowledges though that sometimes mothers need assistance and encourages mothers to seek support from qualified professionals, when needed. Our self-paced e-learning format allows moms to teach their daughters in the privacy of the home through an organized course format and lessons developed by our certified instructors.  

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Just as adult women have the most success with Natural Family Planning when they take a course with a certified instructor, cycle awareness is also not a DIY project. Each Cherry Blossom Teen Charting Instructor is also a certified NFP Instructor in a USCCB-approved method or a healthcare professional. In order to be certified to teach our programs, each candidate also participates in our 8-month long teacher training course where she studies the scientific research on how the adolescent cycle develops and matures and then completes a supervised practicum. With a deep commitment to our Catholic faith and rigorous academic training, our instructors are uniquely qualified to answer your questions and help you monitor your daughter's reproductive health.   To give our mothers the optimum level of support, each course includes email support and three 30-minute consultations with your instructor.

Keeping the Cycle Healthy

 60 to 90% of teenage girls experience painful menstrual cramps and nearly 1/3 report severe PMS symptoms. Although these symptoms can be caused by a reproductive disorder, they oftentimes have their roots in the way we eat, move, sleep, and manage stress.  Our cycle awareness programs were developed by a certified holistic nutrition coach.  Bloom and Beauty Revealed include built-in nutrition coaching systems to help you and your daughter identify cycle symptoms and create nutritional and lifestyle strategies to improve them. 

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We also offer affordable mother-daughter nutrition coaching sessions.  Our holistic nutrition coach can use your daughter's cycle awareness chart to identify cycle symptoms and hormonal imbalances and offer nutritional strategies to help improve her cycle health.   Each session can be personalized to cover the topics that you would like to discuss.  Moms are also invited to share their Natural Family Planning Charts if they too would like to work on their cycle health.  

Monitoring Reproductive Health

Irregular and painful cycles are not only caused by common cycle symptoms that have their roots in nutrition and lifestyle factors.  Confusing and unpleasant cycles can also have a pathological cause.  In recent years, gynecological disorders and infertility have been on the rise.  In the United States, 6% to 12% of women have PCOS and 2% to 10% have endometriosis.  About 1 in 5 (20%) women in the U.S. suffer from infertility. 

Gynecological disorders often have their roots in adolescence.  Early diagnosis and treatment is critical because it leads to better outcomes.  Yet, while adolescent cycles often being irregular, it can be difficult for moms to know what is normal and what is not.  As part of your course enrollment, each of our cycle awareness  programs contains a module on monitoring your daughter's reproductive health.  The module will explain the 5 parameters of the adolescent cycle and what they should look like for your daughters stage of development.  

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Some common questions that will be answered are: how often should my daughter be ovulating?  How long should her cycle be?  How will I know if my daughter's bleeding is too heavy?  Is a short luteal phase normal for an adolescent?  Why is my daughter showing multiple peaks?  5 parameters

Catholic Identity Formation

Since 2019, Cherry Blossom Teen Charting has been assisting mothers and daughters, parishes, and Catholic dioceses with our cycle awareness programs. Our courses not only teach girls and young women how to chart the cycle, but they are also designed according to the Catholic Church's specific guidelines for education on fertility education, love, and sexuality in the Pontifical Council for the Family's document, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.   

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To give you the maximum amount of support, we  also offer affordable mother-daughter nutrition coaching sessions.  Our holistic nutrition coach can use your daughter's cycle awareness chart to identify cycle symptoms and hormonal imbalances and offer nutritional strategies to help improve her cycle health.   Each session can be personalized to cover the topics that you would like to discuss.  Moms are also invited to share their Natural Family Planning Charts if they too would like to work on their cycle health.  

Become an Instructor

Young women are growing up in a culture that portrays to them a very distorted and confused definition of femininity.  It is a culture, that, in many ways, no longer sees innate differences between men and women, a culture that fails to see masculinity and femininity as complimentary and reciprocal ways of being a human person–each with a unique and vital role to play, one dependent upon the other.  Cherry Blossom Cycle Awareness Instructors assist mothers in the great task of helping their daughters discover who they are, created female in the image and likeness of God and understand the great dignity and mission of their femininity.

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Catholic women who are trained as Certified Natural Family Planning Instructors in USCCB-approved methods or  healthcare professional are invited to become Cherry Blossom Cycle Awareness Instructors.  Our 8-month long, academically rigorous training program will  augment your skills with an enhanced understanding of the adolescent menstrual cycle and our Church’s beautiful teachings on assisting parents in the task of fertility education.  Our program consists of three phases: Core Training, Program Training, and a Supervised Practicum.  Instructors choose which program(s) they would like to teach, and upon completion of the training earn the title Catholic Adolescent Fertility Education Provider.

Course
Features

     Video Introductions
     Recorded PowerPoint Presentations 
     Reading assignments
     Lesson Activities w/ answer key
     Discussion Board 
     Email Support from your Instructor
    Three 30-minute Virtual Follow-ups / Chart Reviews
           with your Instructor

Additional follow-up appointments can be scheduled,
as needed



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Program Materials

     Full color, digital Instruction Booklet for PC or Mac      Printable Activities
       Printable Charts and Stickers

Professionally Printed Materials and Instruction Booklet app for android or i-phone available for purchase

"This program is a wonderful tool to teach my daughter how beautifully God has made her and to help her to understand and appreciate the gift of fertility He has given her . . . the program opened communication between us by presenting the topic gently, scientifically, and from a Catholic perspective."
"As a mother who has successfully used Natural Family Planning for 15 years, I want to empower my girls with the knowledge of how wonderfully God made their bodies. I don’t want them to fear what will happen as they grow and change, and I want them to have the tools that will make their adolescent lives easier . . . The Blossom program . . . has prepared my daughter for what is to come, and has made it all a joyful experience to look forward to rather than dread".

"I saw the information on Bloom in my dioceses monthly magazine. After signing up and meeting with the teacher I realized what a great program Bloom is. It really explains the body and whole process well. I am learning things I never knew before. This program is a great foundation to teach girls about their bodies. Every girl should take part in this."

"Bloom is an amazing program that enables mothers to teach their 11 to 15-year-old daughters only the basics of NFP which they currently need to know to help them understand and appreciate their growing, changing bodies. The information is educational but also helps young girls feel more confident about what their bodies are doing, why it’s happening, and when to expect specific events.

I love how the program empowers mothers to teach their own children rather than leaving it up to someone else or having the children figure it out on their own. Bloom opens up the pathway for healthy communication between mothers and daughters about sensitive topics while they are young, setting the precedence for later years and even more sensitive topics."
"I would definitely recommend your school to anyone hoping to pursue a career and be a professional. The support they provided to their students was simply outstanding and the genuine interest and care was obvious and incomparable."

Frequently asked questions

How long will I have access to the course?

When you enroll in one of our courses, you will be given 3 months access to the course portal, along with a course plan that will allow you to finish within that time frame or sooner.  

Can I choose my instructor?

Yes!  Please see the enrollment instructions below.

When you enroll in a course directly on our site, you will be paired with our director, Kelly Donahue.

Our affiliated instructors collect their own consultation fees.  If  you would like to work with one of our affiliated instructors, you will need to contact her before enrolling in a course.  You will pay a consultation fee directly to your instructor.  She will then give you a coupon code that you will use to enroll in your course.  When using the coupon code, you will pay only the course and materials fee. 


Do I need to be Catholic to register?

Our programs are based upon Catholic teaching on fertility; however, you do not need to be Catholic to register.  We welcome mothers and daughters of all faiths to participate in our courses and firmly believe that all moms who value the virtues of chastity and purity will be pleased with our programs.  

Cycle Awareness helps a young woman understand the messages that her body is telling her . . .

Holistic Nutrition empowers her to do
something about it!

Holistic Nutrition

Coaching For menstrual cycle health

Menstrual cycle health and the symptoms that we experience are affected by what we eat, how we move, our sleep habits, and our stress levels.  Holistic Nutrition Professionals take a look at how all of these factors contribute to a woman's overall hormonal balance.

Our director, Kelly Donahue, is a certified holistic nutrition coach who is specially trained in menstrual cycle health and nutrition, perimenopause / menopause health, and pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum nutrition.  Kelly is able to help women of all ages and in all stages of reproductive life achieve hormonal balance and improve their cycle health. 

Kelly offers affordable mother-daughter nutrition coaching sessions to help you develop a nutrition and lifestyle plan to help you reach your goals.  

Target cycle symptoms, such as menstrual cramps, PMS, headaches, sugar cravings, and hot flashes.  Personalize the nutrition coaching systems used in Bloom or Beauty Revealed for your cycle data.  Learn how to eat and exercise for each phase of the cycle.  Learn which foods support hormone production and which foods support hormone elimination.

30-minute Nutrition Coaching Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . $40.00
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NEST Hormonal Balance

NEST Hormonal Balance is Kelly's signature menstrual cycle nutrition coaching system.  NEST stands for nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, toxins, and tracking.   

During your nutrition coaching session(s), Kelly will use this system to teach you and your daughter the 3 foundational principals of menstrual cycle health and enable you to think critically about your cycle symptoms and trouble-shoot cycle problems.   

Kelly will personalize each session to discuss the topics that are important to you.  She will also review your cycle awareness and NFP charts to see which reproductive hormones may need nutritional support and help you create a plan to balance your hormones and target cycle symptoms.

Are you called?

Become a Cherry Blossom Cycle Awareness Instructor
and bring our programs to your area

Download our Program Guide or contact
kelly@cbbteencharting from more information

"Participating in the Cherry Blossom Cycle Awareness Teacher Training Program has been a transformative and rewarding experience. The structure of the curriculum is meticulously designed, offering a comprehensive, challenging and structured learning journey.   The course blends the theological aspects of the Catholic Faith with sound scientific research."
"Kelly is passionate about imparting her knowledge to her students and provided
unending support when necessary.  The course is interactive, with hands-on projects and case studies, which provide invaluable practical insights." 

"The weekly meetings with Kelly and fellow participants fostered a rich exchange of ideas.  As I progressed through the modules, I acquired new skills and enhanced my knowledge.

This program has been a pivotal and gratifying chapter in my professional development

and has prepared me well to help others learn this important information."

"Bloom is an amazing program that enables mothers to teach their 11 to 15-year-old daughters only the basics of NFP which they currently need to know to help them understand and appreciate their growing, changing bodies. The information is educational but also helps young girls feel more confident about what their bodies are doing, why it’s happening, and when to expect specific events.

I love how the program empowers mothers to teach their own children rather than leaving it up to someone else or having the children figure it out on their own. Bloom opens up the pathway for healthy communication between mothers and daughters about sensitive topics while they are young, setting the precedence for later years and even more sensitive topics."
"I would definitely recommend your school to anyone hoping to pursue a career and be a professional. The support they provided to their students was simply outstanding and the genuine interest and care was obvious and incomparable."

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