Vaginal Vulva Health blogs
Blogs about vaginal vulva health to help you on your health journey.
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When trauma lives in the body: a journey toward vaginal literacy and healing
After the Manchester Arena attack, Julie Ann White discovered how trauma can live in the pelvis, and created an online vaginal literacy programme to help women know their normal.
Sheren's journey part 2: Out of the vulvodynia tunnel & beyond
Seven days after recording a self-hypnosis script, I left the house on my own for the first time. The pain hadn't gone but there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel. This is what I found on the way out.
"We don't really know why this happens": what I wish someone had told me about vulvodynia and painful sex
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.
Sheren's journey part 1: My decade living with vulvodynia
One woman's decade-long path from chronic pelvic pain toward recovery.
Get cliterate! This is how your clitoris works
You have a clitoris. Great, it’s not a button for a start! The clitoris is part of female genitals whose primary function is sexual pleasure. When it is stimulated, it can lead to orgasm but that doesn’t mean pleasure is only physical or limited to one area. Your thoughts, emotions, context, and sense of safety all play a role too.
Vaginal health: How to support your body naturally and effectively
Vaginal health is a key part of overall wellbeing, yet it’s often misunderstood or ignored until something feels wrong. Recurrent infections, discomfort, odour, or irritation are not just 'bad luck', they are signs that the vaginal ecosystem is out of balance.
Disabled by Thrush
Recurrent thrush can cause permanent vulval nerve damage, yet women receive no warning. Medical bodies have known about the link between severe thrush infections and vulvodynia for years, but prevention strategies remain non-existent. This is one woman's story of preventable disability and why the healthcare system must do better.
Rethinking Comfort in the Speculum Exam
Speculum exams are a vital part of women’s health care, but they’re often remembered with dread rather than comfort. Patients deserve agency, providers deserve better tools, and both deserve an exam experience that feels respectful. In this blog, Dr. Emily Fitch explores how comfort can be improved on both sides of the exam and how innovation is helping to reimagine the process.
Menopause and vaginal health: The effects of low oestrogen and what to do about it
Menopause is a natural part of life, but it brings changes that aren’t always easy to talk about - especially vaginal health.
Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain: it is time to LEARN a NEW tune!
Why do tunes get stuck in our head? We like the tune or maybe we just heard it recently! For the same reason, we get stuck into treatment patterns because they are comfortable and familiar.
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