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Period and pelvic wellness, science, stories, and more.

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How to Exercise in Sync with Your Menstrual Cycle

Hormone levels change dramatically depending on which phase of your cycle you are in, and this process affects your brain, body, energy, skin, etc.  One thing that is rarely talked about in the fitness industry...

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How to Exercise in Sync with Your Menstrual Cycle
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How Healing my Vaginismus Changed my Relationship to Sex

I began heading towards my healing journey for my Vaginismus when I was in high school. I was aware of the need to heal but was not confident in how or what that would look...

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Breast Pain and Your Cycle: What is Normal?

As a person with breasts and a period, there are usually a few days in the month where I can’t get away with not wearing a bra, or I find myself cupping my breasts in...

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The Unfortunate History of Hysteria and Endometriosis

When I started my research into medical gaslighting and chronic pain, I was awestruck when a participant of my study explicitly mentioned the connection between hysteria and endometriosis. They explained to me that they were shocked to...

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Menstrual Health: How Sex Education is Failing Our Youth

My introduction to menstrual health, pre-menarche, was as follows: when I was around 14, my mum came into my room, somewhat out of the blue and drew me a diagram of a uterus on one...

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How To Shop For Someone With Period Pain

The digital world has allowed people who have chronic pelvic pain to build supportive and uplifting communities. The distributing and sharing of helpful, innovative, and comprehensive information is more widespread than ever. Because of this,...

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Bleeding Beyond the Binary: People Have Periods

Our People Have Periods campaign is our way of capturing and sharing these gifts with the world. Each and everyone of the people in this campaign have forged their own reality. 
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Herbal Tea for Period Relief: A Brief History and How-To

Herbal tea has been used for centuries to help with all sorts of health concerns. For many people, herbal tea can be a powerful ally for period relief. This blog post will explore the history...

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What is The Vaginal Microbiome and How To Keep It Healthy

One of my favourite things to talk about is the vaginal microbiome! I learned about it a few years ago when I was on my health journey to understand why I always had yeast infections. Literally,...

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How Queer Period Sex Changed My Relationship to Period Pain

It wasn’t until a couple of months in that I realized, instead of the instant and crippling anxiety I felt in anticipation of the pain that always followed the beginning of my period – I was thinking about sex. About pleasure. About loving my body. About being loved. That’s when everything changed.  

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