My Passage: How I Found the ME in Menopause. Midlife is a journey, or as best-selling author, Gail Sheehy, might say, a passage or transition. Only there are distinct differences from that original publication back in 1976 when Ms. Sheehy was in her late 30’s, and first wrote about the midlife “crisis” as passage point. [...]
Forty years ago, a group of twelve women banded together to dovetail on the women’s movement, and specifically in the area of women’s health and human rights. Their organization became known as the Boston Women’s Health Collective that then became a women’s health movement fueled by the book “Our Bodies, Ourselves”. We thank Judy and [...]
The Uterine Health Companion is good medicine. Because it’s written from the perspective of a medical anthropologist with cross-cultural experience, it highlights how very skewed the Western medical view of the uterus really is. I highly recommend this book.” –Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom What if you found out that deep [...]
I’ve never laughed harder than with my sister. It’s a laugh based on our own, undescribable way of seeing the world, those “had to be there” moments that create rivers of tears flowing south on your face. These ” had to be there” moments between the both of us make the world a very intimate [...]
The nation is now a caregiver, assisted by the compassionate, and highly knowledgeable medical team at the Houston-based Texas Medical Center, providing the kind of specialized acute care and rehabilitative care that a traumatic brain injury demands. I’ve been rivotted by the media attention on Gabby, and I follow her medical progress like I was [...]
Wait a minute here. It’s Christmas time and we’re headed to the breast surgeon? Just this week, my mom received a diagnosis of breast cancer. The stats show she’s unfortunately not alone and has way too much company – with one in eight women who have a lifetime risk of this particular diagnosis. My naivete [...]
Recently, I was sponsored by Wellsphere to attend the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting. NAMS is an organization that covets evidence-based medicine in the treatment of menopause – a lifestage that we women find ourselves in for much longer than our female ancestors. I’m interested in menopause because with women living well into [...]
Do blue-eyed gals (or violet eye gals) really have more fun? (for more on fun, go to Elizabeth Taylor’s bio!) Many people mistakenly believe that beautiful eyes and seeing well translates to good eye health. But, as women, our own vision can be compromised by “presbyopia” as well as other age-related and environmental conditions that [...]
It’s not all in your head, it’s not a sign of age, nor is it even a lack of interest: About seventy million American men and women have problems in the bedroom. Join health psychologists Dr. Robert Fried and Dr. Lynn Nezin to learn about the eating plan for sexual vitality. Sexual function requires an [...]