How to be period positive in 5 easy steps!
Newsflash: uteri bleed. This statement seems so innocuous, but even discussing menstruation is often considered taboo in many societies, including, to some degree, ours. It’s time to evolve the way we think and speak about menstruation in an effort to become more period-positive.
Here are five easy ways to become more #PeriodPositive…
7 simple and (mostly) easy confidence boosters
From time to time, when I’m in the downward spiral of low self-esteem, these are my go-to confidence boosters. Hopefully they’ll be so easy that they’ll become yours too…
How to stay positive through a scary diagnosis
It’s so easy to slip into a cycle of hating your body when it’s not working properly. It’s easy to feel bitter, alone, resentful and just all-around negative and depressed when your body is unhealthy in ways beyond your control, and all of those feelings are completely valid. I’ve chosen to stay positive and live my life in spite of my diseases, which is totally more easily said than done. Here’s how I do it…
The easiest (and best!) facial moisturizer you’ll ever make yourself
Here’s a recipe for one of the gentlest, actually hydrating, easiest facial moisturizers you can make. I like to use this for a nighttime moisturizer…
Board games for people who hate board games
My fiancé is a board game geek, we have over 100 board games! The problem is that I’m not such a big fan (and am also a massive sore loser, we both are). So he has to try and find games that I will like, so we can play at home.
Here are the board games we play. Board games for people, like me, who don’t like board games…
How to talk about death when no one else wants to
Death is natural, and having concerns about death is natural. What isn’t natural is entirely rejecting the reality of the human condition and refusing to talk about death.
This is a tough topic, but here are a few things that might be helpful…
How to respond to teens who think their bodies are “gross”
I am a nurse educator for a non-profit that provides free childbirth education classes and case management for pregnant teenagers and their partners. My classes are almost always riddled with at least one or two teens (moms or dads) who think that any/all body parts are super “gross.”
This is how I’m teaching teens about bodies…
How I stopped using nicotine and alcohol (+6 useful resources if you wanna do the same)
In the past seven months I’ve stopped using nicotine and alcohol for the first time since starting nearly ten years ago!
Letting go of using alcohol and cigarettes feels like everything I was chasing when I started using them — it feels radical, new, exciting, scary.
Here’s how and why I did it…