By Natalie Platzkoester Pavlak When Breast Cancer Runs In the Family, Genetic Testing Can Change Everything
Last year on Halloween, I got a positive pregnancy test. I wasn't shocked, but I also wasn't necessarily “expecting” it.…
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By Amy Keyes When Did Middle Aging Get So Hard and How Did My Parents Make It Look So Easy?
When I was younger, I had no concept of age. My parents and their friends could have been 50, and…
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By Skyler Dusenbery Healing Is Not Linear
I was on anxiety medication for well over a year after my oldest was born. Then by God’s grace, I…
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By Kamryn Higgins Pregnancy and an Eating Disorder: It’s Still Complicated
Something I never expected? For pregnancy to heal my eating disorder. Okay, maybe that’s not completely accurate . . .…
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By Angela Williams Glenn From the Other Side of Postpartum Depression
As I sit on the other side of depression, I feel like I could stay in these moments forever. It’s…
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We Need To Start Talking about Perimenopause and Menopause
This one is for all the ladies out there. The topic that is still so veiled, so mysteriously and globally absent,…
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By Her View From Home Mom Warns about Toxic Shock Syndrome after Lake Trip Turns Scary
As women, we're warned about the dangers of toxic shock syndrome, or TSS, from the time we're teenagers. I clearly…
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The Hysterectomy Decision is Hard
Periods are such a pain to deal with, am I right? They’re even worse when they cause problems. I’ve had…
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By Amber Kuipers I Didn’t Know It Was Postpartum Anxiety
I was always warned about postpartum depression. I was prepped by my midwife. I had the pamphlets. I was ready.…
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By Bethany Sarazen This Is Perimenopause
For the past few months, I’ve felt like the woman who bled for 12 years, healed by touching the hem…
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By Tania Lorena Rivera For Years, My Periods Were Pure Agony and I Want Better for My Daughters
“You look white as a sheet,” said Jacquie sitting next to me in math class. I nodded and gripped my…
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By Kerith Mickelson This Is My Second Half Too
Part-time teacher by day, security guard at my daughter Amelia’s basketball games by night. It’s extra cash to take Tai…
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