What Is Holistic Health?
What is a holistic approach to health? To me, this is something different than using bio-identical hormones, practicing yoga, or seeking help from an acupuncturist. Sometimes, practitioners using complementary/alternative or integrative-medicine methods have as...
Steamed Vaginas, Condoms, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/qf4TulXdNXY The Beauty of RED — enjoy this video by Menstrupedia. The high cost of having a vagina: Kat George does the math at Thought Catalog. What is the most misunderstood and underappreciated proven method of birth control? Condoms. They work....
Feminism, Backlash, and Sweetening The Pill
It's been more than 20 years since Susan Faludi first published Backlash (with the provocative subtitle, The Undeclared War Against American Women), her thorough documentation of the ways women and feminism were under attack in the U.S. The War Against Women has been...
“If Menstrual Health is the Neglected House on the Block … Then Endometriosis is the Basement”
Guest Post by Heather Guidone, CWC, Surgical Program Director, Center for Endometriosis Care The Center for Endometriosis Care was honored to present at the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research's 20th Biennial Congress in early June, an event featuring the world's...
Power (or Pride) of the Period
httpv://youtu.be/-OnWnwwxNPA This Slate article, “Do We Really Have to Be Proud of Our Periods?” is intriguing to me on so many different levels. Coming off the heels of the viral Hello Flo commercial, the article questions if periods could and should be a source of...
Tampons in Your Hair, A Giant Vagina, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/gK-v63-rdvM This is not a parody, but a real tutorial on using tampons as curlers. Laura Knowles of HuffPo asks, What would happen if you took the day off work on the first day of your period? A new vagina art work installation is in a former women's...
