During your menstrual cycle, you might notice changes in the color of your period blood and wonder if there is cause for concern. The truth of the matter is that there are different reasons and causes for this – many of which are entirely normal. So, let’s examine...
Although the Twitter phenomenon that is the #livetweetyourperiod hashtag has circulated for a few months now, this week saw it put to political use in the primaries in the run up to Presidential election. Competing candidate Donald Trump’s fumbling...
Womanhood comes with many rites of passage and periods are of course one of our favorites! If you ask any woman today if she remembers the first time she started menstruating, she can probably recall the moment in detail. It was a turning point in her life, where she...
Special Guest Blog Post by: Lacy Young is a health coach, meditation facilitator and the creator of Campaign for Confidence. Lacy is a former junk food junkie turned green juice aficionado! She believes in the power of veggies and their ability to heal the body, mind...
In this exclusive extract from Holly Grigg-Spall’s book, “Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control” (the inspiration for a documentary project from Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein), the author, who is also our Fierce Woman of the Month,...
As women, I’m sure a number of us have heard the criticism or at least are aware of the stereotype that we’re more emotional, cry on the job, have mood swings, so on and so forth. And the truth is our female brain is wired differently than the brains of our male...
If last month's Fierce Woman of the Month, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, got to know the work of this month's Fierce Woman of the Month, Holly Grigg-Spall, we are certain she'd be spearheading the introduction of another similar bill to Congress, like the Robin...
You know that desperate feeling when you have you period and you reach into your handbag and frantically look for a tampon or pad only to find nothing? Imagine having that same sensation every single menstrual cycle, only being without the option of running to the...
With only 20% of the U.S. Congress being comprised of women, every female vote is fiercely necessary in order to better represent the needs of the female population. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is our hometown state’s first and current woman to represent New...
Robin Danielson died in 1998 at the age of 44 after contracting Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) from the use of a conventional brand of tampons. Today many women feel like TSS is something that they no longer need to worry about and believe that tampons are now much...