Riding the Wave:

PMDD & Relationships

A guided couples workshop to help you understand what’s happening, communicate without blame, and navigate PMDD as a team.

Led by Julia Hunt, LCSW • Mandy Rother, RD, FMNS • Caitlyn Giff-Marko

90-minutes • Watch anytime, together or apart • Workbook included • $27

PMDD doesn't just live in one person's body.

It ripples through the relationship.

Even when both people care deeply, the pattern can start to feel confusing, painful, and hard to shift.

One person may be thinking: “It’s like a switch flips. I don’t feel like myself, and suddenly I’m questioning everything.”

The partner may be thinking: “I want to help, but I honestly don’t know the right thing to do.”

And often, both people are trying so hard.

This workshop is a place to slow the pattern down, understand what's happening, and create a shared way through it.

Not by making one person the problem, but by learning how to recognize the pattern earlier, communicate with more care, and find your way back to each other.

What This Workshop Is & Isn't

This workshop was created for couples navigating PMDD or cyclical mood shifts that are affecting the relationship.

This isn't...

Trying to figure out if this relationship is “right” or not
A quick fix or one conversation that solves everything
A replacement for deeper support like therapy or treatment

This is...

A starting point to better understand what’s happening
Simple ways to stay connected—even when it’s hard
Tools to help protect your relationship during the harder moments

Watch Together or On Your Own

One purchase covers both of you — watch on the couch, on your phones, or on your own time.

Together, you'll start recognizing the pattern early and building the language to name it — shifting from "me vs. you" to "us and PMDD."

If your partner isn't ready to join yet, you're still welcome. Learn the tools, bring them back to the relationship, and invite your partner in when the time is right.

Here's What to Expect

The workshop is 90 minutes, structured around four sections. Each one is designed to help you see what's been happening between you a little more clearly.

1. Understanding the Waves: Biology

How PMDD shows up in the body and across the cycle — so the hard weeks start to make sense as biology, not character, and stop feeling like a personal failure.

2. Noticing the Waves: Between Us

Two experiences named side by side so both partners feel less alone in what they've been carrying, and the story shifts from "me vs. you" to "us and PMDD."

3. Riding the Waves: Practical Tools

Four tools you'll personalize together to recognize the pattern early, agree on a shared signal, communicate on low-capacity days, and build a return ritual.

4. Preparing for the Next Wave

Turn what you’ve learned into something you can keep using — with reflection prompts and a plan for what you want to remember, practice, and return to between cycles.

You’ll leave with Riding the Wave: A Couples Workbook — a 30-page PDF that mirrors the workshop’s arc, with dual-perspective prompts, the tools you build together, and space to keep noticing what changes as the pattern shows up again. Not homework. A guide you can return to across cycles.

Meet Your Workshop Guides

This workshop brings together lived experience, clinical insight, and relationship-centered support to help you understand PMDD in the place it often shows up most: your closest relationships.

Caitlyn Giff-Marko

Caitlyn Giff-Marko is the co-founder of Wave Rider, a cycle-powered relationship app built for couples navigating PMDD. Diagnosed with PMDD at 36 after years of misattribution, she brings both lived experience and a background in psychology, education, and UX/UI design to her work. Caitlyn is building Wave Rider because she believes couples deserve better tools, and that the right knowledge, at the right time, can change everything.

Mandy Rother, RD, FMNS

Mandy Rother is a Functional Dietitian and founder of Reveal Functional Nutrition, where she specializes in a holistic, data-driven approach to PMDD. She combines over 15 years of professional experience, lived experience with PMDD, and work with hundreds of clients to help people stop guessing. Through functional lab testing and her Reveal Method, Mandy helps clients uncover what’s been missed and take strategic steps toward sustainable relief.

Julia Hunt, LCSW

Julia Hunt is a licensed mental health clinician and co-founder of Wave Rider. She has spent more than a decade working across clinical practice, research, and leadership in women's digital health. Building Wave Rider gave shape to something she'd been circling throughout her career: the menstrual cycle is a missing thread in women's mental health. Julia's work centers on making the relational system visiblhelping people better understand themselves, one another, and what is happening between them.

Join Us for Riding the Wave

If you love each other, but keep getting caught in the same painful pattern…

If you want to understand what’s happening before it becomes another rupture…

If you’re ready for simple tools that help you stay connected through the PMDD waves…

This is a place to begin.

Get Instant Access

One purchase covers both of you.

Instant access to the 90-minute workshop recording and PDF workbook. Watch together or apart, on your own timeline, and return to it as often as you need for as long as the workshop remains available online.

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