Testimonials

My fiance and I have had a very positive experience with the SymptoPro classes taught by Jill Cherrey. My fiance and I have been engaged nearly 3 years now, and we will be getting married this June 16th, we had talked about our plans for the future. Both of us liked the idea of having children around 2 years after our marriage, but both of us did not like the idea of using hormonal both control or contraceptives.

Initially, we were both somewhat nervous and untrusting of the NFP method. I as a woman had been raised believing that anything that didn't include chemicals or physical barriers was "stupid," "foolish," and that "people who use 'so called natural methods' were ‘world-ruining baby machines’." In the circles I was raised in, any natural method was considered to be the same thing as old calendar rhythm methods that rely on the woman having completely regular cycles.

My husband, Mike, and I have been married for 33 years and have used only NFP for almost that long. First learning about it at our Engaged Encounter Weekend a month before our wedding, we had little time to master it before using it for real. We did like the fact that NFP seemed very natural, as well as scientific, and we liked the people who taught us, but we thought that it would be a good idea to also have a backup contraceptive that we could use during the fertile times. We thought we’d be able to outsmart the method, by using NFP to identify when I was in the fertile part of my cycle and then use a barrier method for those days. And, so, we got a diaphragm.

When my husband and I were married about five and a half years ago, we were of the belief that contraception was God’s gift to married couples, so we used barrier method contraception for the first four years of our marriage. Some would say it was not very successfully done, since we had three children in the span of those four years, all surprises!

This is the story of Lucy Flamiatos, SymptoPro Instructor, and how she used SymptoPro to discover legitimate healing from a debilitating menstrual cycle.