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The phases of my menstrual cycle
A woman’s menstrual cycle is very delicate and precise. This article visually represents the different phases and gives you a far deeper understanding of the changes a woman’s body goes through.
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The relationship between our health and our health systems
We expect that health services and those who work within them will be able to provide the answers and cures to our ill health. But what is the part we play when it comes to health and wellbeing?
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Choosing a wedding dress: a stocktaking moment to connect with our body and honour ourselves
Women usually ‘know’ when they have found their perfect wedding dress. What if women used the same process to guide themselves with other aspects of their lives?
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Women’s health: let’s talk more about our monthly period and endometriosis! – part 1
Women worldwide are struggling with period problems, endometriosis and other chronic persistent pelvic pain conditions. Yet these conditions have proven elusive when it comes to treatment which suggests we are not truly understanding the underlying nature of what is going on.
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The inner beauty of women: The legacy of Leonardo
Are the women of today living the legacy of Leonardo, the grace and stillness of a woman in her power? At the time of the Renaissance, Leonardo portrayed women in their power, sacredness and stillness – their inner beauty. This is his legacy to women thereafter.
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Sex appeal of beautiful mature women – what exactly does that look like?!
Josephine Bell explores the choice women have to age gracefully while bringing true sexy back.
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My experience of abuse and self-abuse
One woman’s journey from abuse and self-abuse to re-connection with her essence.
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Work, mothering and female empowerment part 1 – where are we truly at?
As women, it seems we have made considerable progress towards attaining greater gender equality, work-life balance and female empowerment. But how much has really changed, and at what cost?
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Women’s thoughts about Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is considered a major mothering highlight after women become part of the motherhood fraternity! But what are women’s thoughts on Mother’s Day?
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Mother’s Day presents, mothers and me
Mother’s Day – what’s it all about? ... Celebrating the amazing Women we are aside from the chocolates, fluffy socks and dressing gowns!!
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The face of Sacredness
There is nothing more beautiful, divinely authoritative, and rich as a woman in her Sacredness, she is a leading light in every way. And every woman holds this essence in spades.
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Men share on their first experience with porn
Five men share their first experience with pornography, and how it affected their lives
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The suicide rate in older women: a real women’s health issue
What if the rate of suicide in older women was not a symptom of the ‘ageing’ process per se, but rather was far more multifaceted in terms of contributing factors?
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Women’s health: let’s talk more about our monthly period and endometriosis! – part 2
Women’s monthly period and any associated period and other reproductive problems are accepted as part of the menstrual cycle with little consideration given to why so many women struggle with this aspect of their health and wellbeing.
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The loss of women’s voices in the abortion debate
Women have struggled for years to have meaningful participation in discussions regarding the provision of accessible, safe contraception and abortion services. So, what are we missing here and what will support change?
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Comparison: the unspoken side of being pregnant, giving birth and mothering
Being pregnant, giving birth and mothering are usually much anticipated and regarded as special parts of many women’s lives. But rather than enjoying this period, women are often left feeling unsettled and unfulfilled, yet find it hard to work out why.
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The beauty of being single
Women are legally free to be single, but this freedom has yet to dispel underlying assumptions imposed upon single women
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Love is Love: Gender and the truth in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a dark, bittersweet comedy about Love. Shakespeare pulls the plug on the folly of human behaviour that we subscribe to when it comes to gender, love, and desire . . . all of which we have imagined love to be but which actually sets us up to keep love at bay.
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The not so beauty industry
When we say we are inspired by or love a certain picture of a model what is it that we love or are really aspiring towards? How can we deal with the beauty industry’s not so beautiful, but ugly force?
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Retroverted uterus – living life backwards
With retroverted uterus, ovarian cysts and endometriosis on the rise, can such issues with our female parts reflect which direction we are ‘living life’ as women?
