Rewriting the narrative

This space is dedicated to changing the way we talk about women's health. Here, healthcare professionals share evidence-based insights, and women offer honest reflections from their own journeys covering topics like pelvic pain, prolapse, menopause, and more. Together, these voices deepen understanding, foster connection, and challenge the stigma and taboo that too often surround women's health. Every blog is designed to educate, empower, and advocate ensuring no woman feels alone or unheard in her health journey.

Women's health blogs
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    Closer to fine

    By Heather Hendrie | 

    After 27 years of misdiagnosis, Heather discovered that PMDD had quietly steered her whole life. She's sharing her story so others find answers sooner.

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    "We don't really know why this happens": what I wish someone had told me about vulvodynia and painful sex

    By Mathilde Olstad | 

    Told at 25 that painful sex was just something some women live with, she later learned how treatable vulvar pain often is — and why the answers rarely reach the women who need them.

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    Sheren's journey part 1: My decade living with vulvodynia

    By Sheren Gaulbert | 

    One woman's decade-long path from chronic pelvic pain toward recovery.

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    The untapped women's health market hiding in plain sight

    By Lisa Taylor, Founder of Wicks Intimates | 

    How listening to customers revealed an underserved women's health need.

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    Community is an evidence infrastructure

    By Voni Nyamazana | 

    We tend to treat community as women's health's support act. But long before a study is funded, women are already spotting the patterns science hasn't caught up with. Community isn't where the evidence gets discussed. It's where it begins.

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    Written by a Health Care Professional

    Anal cancer in women: Let’s talk about it

    By Dr Matt Marino | 

    To the surprise of many clinicians, women make up the single largest group of people diagnosed with anal cancer. Yet it sits almost entirely outside the women's health conversation. Here's what every woman should know about the risk, the HPV link, and when screening is worth discussing.

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    Written by a Health Care Professional

    The mind/body connection: Why what's happening in your head is happening in your body too

    By Lauren Cummings | 

    If sex feels like obligation, your body is already listening. Why the mind-body connection drives women's arousal, and how feeling safe changes everything.

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    The other expert in the room

    By Spencer Moore | 

    A 40-year-old woman has spent well over 350,000 hours living in her own body and, whether she knows it or not, she is undeniably the world's foremost expert on that body.

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    Written by a Health Care Professional

    Experiencing both sides of the stethoscope

    By Dr Liz Murray BCA, MBBS, DipMedSci | 

    A doctor who spent years undiagnosed with endometriosis reflects on navigating a healthcare system that repeatedly dismissed her symptoms, even as she worked within it.

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    Written by a Health Care Professional

    Perimenopause: What you were never told

    By Mardi Lucich | 

    Most women were told one thing about menopause, that it starts when their periods stop. What they weren't told is that perimenopause, the multi-year hormonal transition that precedes it, can begin a decade earlier and reshapes brain function, bone density, metabolism, and cardiovascular health

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