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Period and pelvic wellness, science, stories, and more.
Raspberry Leaf For Period Pain Relief
There is extensive research that supports the use of herbal and plant based ingredients to improve and alleviate various pelvic pain related issues. Raspberry Leaf is no exception and can be very effective in bringing...
Toxic Things I Learned About Periods in the Catholic School System
I got my first period in the summer between grades 6 and 7. I remember being at the park with my friends months later and one of them said, “I wonder which of us will...
How My Chronic Pain Led Me To Entrepreneurship
I have been building businesses since I could talk. Lemonade stands, hair cutting, tutoring, babysitting, if there was a way to structure something into a repeatable action, I was all over it. My parents sent me to an...
The Connection Between Back Pain and Period Pain
For many, including myself, back pain is something I’ve often overlooked. I figured it must be from sleeping weird, or sitting for too long in my sub par chair, or standing weird for 8 hours...
What is PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)?
Before writing this, I found myself asking, what is the best way to write an informational piece about a chronic condition that is unique to every body, manifests itself in different ways, displays a wide...
Decolonizing The Pain Scale: Viewing Pain as Multidimensional and Non-Linear
Attempts at measuring pain, especially in the Western and European biomedical traditions which dominate medical systems in many countries, have continually fallen short. Especially when it comes to changing and healing bodies, in particular marginalized...
How Birth Control Affects Your Period
I remember when I was around fifteen, and the majority of my peers started a form of hormonal birth control. Not due to engagement in sexual activity, but due to a plethora of other symptoms...
Why There Are Diagnostic Lapses for Pelvic Pain Conditions
When I first began researching chronic pelvic pain, I was blown away at how common these experiences were. I remember thinking back to those dreaded sex-ed classes in school and being angry—angry that there was no attention paid to pelvic pain when I now know the prevalence of the various conditions. ...