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 [...]
Look around at passengers on your commute, your teenage children or even your co-workers as casual screen swiping seems to be more the focus of smartphones these days than voice communication! But have you ever considered such applications to be more than just games or productivity tools? With more and more consumers turning to so-called [...]
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 [...]
What are you going to do differently this year to make 2011 your “best yet”? Making a new year better than the last requires a different action everyday that becomes a new habit and a new way of thinking. It’s no easy feat and we end up getting discouraged because it takes consistent not sporadic [...]
Just last week, a little bird tapped me on the shoulder and asked me “So, did you achieve your 2010 new year’s resolution?” Are you kidding?? You mean losing weight? Those twenty pounds I never lost? But, truth be told, I did accomplish something I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I WOULD EVER DO and it [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever wondered what your chronic pain might really be? It’s been month…maybe years and you may have already visited your doctor several times and been referred to a neurologist or even psychologist. But, your pain is not going away…despite what doctors believe about it. Fibromyalgia is a common condition characterized by long-term, body-wide [...]
OK. It’s almost summer, and barreling down a luge looks icey… but inspiration is season-less:)) You’re invited! Tune in and ask questions as Kelley and Cassie talk with Anne Abernathy, aka Grandma Luge, here on our radio show Friday, May 21st at 12:30 p.m. Not exactly sure who Anne is? Anne is a six-time Olympic [...]