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What does PMS stand for… apart from driving me crazy?
Most women are resigned to PMS being a normal part of being a woman, something that we just have to put up with but we have a tool with us everyday that can help us understand why we get PMS.
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Abortion in Northern Ireland; Breaking free from the gags of silence
What developed nation still maintains that a woman should be jailed for life for having an abortion? Eunice Minford speaks out against an abuse of women that continues to be inscribed in law.
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Pain during sex – what might this be telling you?
This article discusses painful sex – being a common but not openly discussed problem for many women. There is information available on ‘coping mechanisms’, but what might be the root cause of pain during sex? Is pain during sex something to deny, or ‘cope’ with or instead a call to stop, review and develop a more honest and trusting way of being with our partners, shedding light on how we ‘make love’.
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First period – a time for celebration
A girl’s first period, through true education, is a time to celebrate the transition from girl to woman and embrace the glory of the woman that lies naturally within.
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What if we lived every day as Mother’s Day?
We as mothers may wait for Mother’s Day and the acknowledgement from others of all that we do for everyone else, every day of the year, but what are we waiting for?
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The glorious simplicity of authentically being me
How one woman went from playing the game of life, imprisoned in keeping up appearances… best daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, worker … to living ‘purely and authentically me’.
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The ‘perfect’ birth … or the perfect birth for you?
Is there a perfect birth, or is it truly about having the perfect birth for you? Explore the myths we have grown up with and see the multifaceted aspects of birth that impact us all.
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What’s self-love got to do with pregnancy and stillbirth?
Experiencing a stillbirth is difficult for women and those around them. Yet, healing from the experience may not as impossible as it seems.
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Gestational diabetes mellitus - a nuisance or opportunity for growth?
Gestational diabetes mellitus is growing at a phenomenal rate … Imagine if gestational diabetes was viewed as a blessing in pregnancy and all pregnancy care around this condition supported women to see it as an opportunity for personal growth?
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Marriage equality – What’s love got to do with it?
Marriage Equality – Why aren’t we making it about Love?
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Women – unnecessary collateral damage in a battle against ourselves
With such high rates of violence against women in all its forms around the world, we have to look deeper at the cause
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Female hysteria and the sacredness of women
For over two thousand years, female “hysteria” diminished women, misunderstanding the relationship between women being “out of balance” and the loss of connection to their sacredness.
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Menopause: recognising our inner beauty as women
Menopause and post menopause is a time of psychological and physical change but it doesn’t have to be all downhill from there – recognising our inner beauty can be transformative.
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Menopause: the myths of being invisible
At menopause we may feel ‘invisible’ as we adjust to this natural change. Don’t buy into the notion that once menopause is entered, life is effectively over for women. Discover the true Joy of Menopause.
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Penelope Scheenhouwer
How is it that a 24 year old woman can be a role model for women both younger and older than herself?
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Women Speak 101
Do we discover what it truly means to be a woman from the outside or have the answers to all our questions about what a true woman is actually been inside us all along?
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Women's periods 101
What if by natural design our period is actually one part of a cycle that continuously encourages a woman to deeply nurture, care for and attend to her body and her health ? … Could there be more to a woman’s period that we are missing out on?
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Menopause 101: is this the end of the road? ... No way!
An Introduction to Menopause – do women have to settle for the supposedly inevitable full stop on life that apparently Menopause announces? Or is there far more to Menopause than we realise?
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Work, mothering and female empowerment part 2 – getting to the truth of it
The pictures we hold around mothering, attaining a work-life balance and the quest for workplace gender equality rarely match the reality of women’s lives. Is there more to understanding true female empowerment than what we have been led to believe?
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The interplay of physicality and energy in violence – understanding the strings that are moved
What is the root cause of the forever growing violence and the normalisation of it? What if there is a bigger picture to violence that we as humanity have been unwilling to embrace?
