is a girl's journey with painful periods. Jacquéline lived with her family at age thirteen in Kingston, Jamaica, but no one helped her understand her changing body. In her home, periods weren't a topic of discussion. It was more like a solemn secret one should keep and remain strictly hidden. Beyond teenage years, period pain ravaged her body month after month. Jacquéline surrendered to the pain, holding tightly to negative stories she had learned from other women and embracing them as her own. After having two children, she began to question the narratives reinforcing her acceptance of this pain. Her persistence led her down an unfamiliar path to the source of healing and strength within her.