Women’s Health
Why We Really Need to Talk About Grief
Grief is hard subject to talk about because it makes everyone uncomfortable, sometimes including the griever. Some people just don’t want to talk about things that are making them sad; these people are likely introverts, or at least, impressive compartmentalizers who place their pain somewhere inside and don’t discuss it externally. First Published: November 26,2018… […]
How I Tackled Anxiety By Doing Everything That Scared Me
Sometimes you have to do things that make you feel the most anxious and vulnerable to grow as a person. Here's what happened when I did multiple terrifying things all at the same time.
How to Overcome Postpartum Body Image Challenges
Negative body image is a major postpartum problem. Let's flip our mindset. Instead of wanting “our bodies" back, let's be in awe of all they have done.
Uncensored: When Anxiety Strikes, but Isn’t What You See
In the past month, as this blog has really grown, numerous people have told me they’re proud of me. “You really seem to have found your voice,” they say. As someone who’s wanted to be a writer by profession since she was 7, this is amazing to hear. But this appearance, while in so many […]
I Crashed A Dinner and Left with A New Theory about Motherhood
*Note: This post tells my perception of a recent experience. Because I have not obtained permission from the other individuals to use their names, I have changed names and intentionally obscured the location of this story.* Saying Yes When Fear Tells You to Say No I recently found myself in a peculiar position over dinner. […]
Reclaiming the Word “Crazy”
Let me be very clear about something: I don’t use the word “crazy” loosely. In fact, in writing, I don’t use any word loosely. During daily conversation, my filter and self-awareness aren’t quite where they should be. But when I write, every word is intentional. And I’ve made a decision. To reclaim some agency over […]
Childbed Fever: The Epidemic Victorians Ignored
If women were dying in mass numbers in hospitals compared to home births–15 childbed hospital deaths for every 2 at home–wouldn’t you expect national, even international, outcry try to figure out why? I damn sure would. But that didn’t happen in Victorian England. Or anywhere else during the nineteenth century where the same phenomenon occurred […]
Where to Give Birth Used to be a Life-or-Death Choice
Even With Medicine Where It Is Today, Childbirth is Risky Business I talked last week about maternal mortality in childbirth, a trend that is disturbingly on the rise in the United States, especially among rural women and women of color. To learn more, check out my last post (linked in the sentence above), and the […]