women’s health
There is a general silence around women and girls’ health issues. It starts with our first period, surrounds the birth process, breastfeeding, fertility/infertility, and continues through perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. A lack of research on how heart disease, strokes, menopause, autoimmune disorders, and other conditions express in women’s body and doctors mandated to spend just 15 minutes per patient. I'm hoping to begin opening space for pooling our collective resources, experiences, and expertise in support of our healing and thriving.
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Maya Dusenbery, author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, describes the ways medical research studies over the last 50 years have excluded most women. The result - a fundamental lack of understanding about how conditions like heart disease, stroke, autoimmune disorders and others express in women.
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From Burnout “Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you ‘love your body’ when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming ‘your best self’? How do you ‘lean in’ at work when you’re already operating at 110 percent and aren’t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you’re too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish?”
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, by sisters Emilly and Amelia Nagoski explores the impact of stress and burnout on women and provides some practical research based strategies for addressing it.
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Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Bioidenticals, Dr. Ricki Pollycove
Dr. Louise Newsom's Resource Page
Balance App for tracking perimenopausal/menopausal symptoms
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