As you cast your eye toward the next stage of your life, you’re ready to face it head-on. You’re on schedule with your mammograms, your pelvic floor exercise form is…
Pop culture has slowly but surely been moving the focus from eurocentric body image ideals that may perpetuate eating disorders and insecurities, to a place of focusing on health and…
Besides writing about all things reproductive health, I also work hands-on as a doula. The common definition of a doula is someone who supports a birthing person through the process…
I’m sick and tired of having to deal with the Coronavirus, and I want to get on with my life. I believe in science, and I listen to the experts, but I am not going to put my life on hold trying to protect myself from some little organism I can’t even see. I don’t […]
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Public Domain via WikiPedia 5 Stages of love: Are you stuck at stage 3? My parent’s marriage began to unravel at midlife. After he turned forty, my father became increasingly depressed when he couldn’t make a living doing the work that he loved. He had a “nervous breakdown” and was committed to a mental hospital. […]
I’ve been a marriage and family counselor for more than fifty years now. I hear from men and women every day who are in pain and suffering because their relationship has gone downhill and is in danger of crashing. Though some relationships need to end for the good of the couple or their children, for […]
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Working as a full-spectrum doula, my role is to provide non-medical support to people through labor, birth, and beyond. Birth is one of the most intense experiences any human may…
Physical affairs may be less likely to happen, but emotional affairs “are in overdrive,” one marriage therapist said.
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It’s frustrating to hear “everything’s OK” when everything is clearly not OK.
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Read this if your loved ones are ignoring safety precautions at this stage of the pandemic.
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Pfizer and BioNTech announced today that their vaccine candidate appears to be 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 in the volunteers in their study. It’s encouraging news, but there’s still a long way to go between this announcement and an actually effective, available vaccine. Read more…
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