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Decolonizing The Pain Scale: Viewing Pain as Multidimensional and Non-Linear

Attempts at measuring pain, especially in the Western and European biomedical traditions which dominate medical systems in many countries, have continually fallen short. Especially when it comes to changing and healing bodies, in particular marginalized...

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Decolonizing The Pain Scale: Viewing Pain as Multidimensional and Non-Linear
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How Birth Control Affects Your Period

I remember when I was around fifteen, and the majority of my peers started a form of hormonal birth control. Not due to engagement in sexual activity, but due to a plethora of other symptoms...

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Why There Are Diagnostic Lapses for Pelvic Pain Conditions

When I first began researching chronic pelvic pain, I was blown away at how common these experiences were. I remember thinking back to those dreaded sex-ed classes in school and being angry—angry that there was no attention paid to pelvic pain when I now know the prevalence of the various conditions. ...

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The Connection Between Chronic Pain and Sex

There is a complex relationship between sex and chronic pain. Chronic pain can affect a person’s sex life because of the pain itself, but also because of other factors that come with chronic pain, such as mood changes,...

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How to Use Seed Cycling To Bring Ritual and Intention To Your Menstrual Cycle

We all share the same moon. It is universal, consistent in its appearance in the sky and it shows up every night. Influencing the tides and influencing all of us, Feminine in spirit, the moon...

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How to Exercise in Sync with Your Menstrual Cycle

Hormone levels change dramatically depending on which phase of your cycle you are in, and this process affects your brain, body, energy, skin, etc.  One thing that is rarely talked about in the fitness industry...

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How Healing my Vaginismus Changed my Relationship to Sex

I began heading towards my healing journey for my Vaginismus when I was in high school. I was aware of the need to heal but was not confident in how or what that would look...

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Breast Pain and Your Cycle: What is Normal?

As a person with breasts and a period, there are usually a few days in the month where I can’t get away with not wearing a bra, or I find myself cupping my breasts in...

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The Unfortunate History of Hysteria and Endometriosis

When I started my research into medical gaslighting and chronic pain, I was awestruck when a participant of my study explicitly mentioned the connection between hysteria and endometriosis. They explained to me that they were shocked to...

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Menstrual Health: How Sex Education is Failing Our Youth

My introduction to menstrual health, pre-menarche, was as follows: when I was around 14, my mum came into my room, somewhat out of the blue and drew me a diagram of a uterus on one...

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