Tag: health
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Reclaiming Your Cycle: Why Reusable and Organic Period Products Matter for Womb Care
Periods are not a nuisance to manage but a rhythm to honour. How you care for your cycle affects your comfort, hormones, and long-term reproductive health. The products you use each month directly touch some of the most absorbent tissue in your body. That means their materials matter. The Problem with Conventional Products Most mainstream…
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Women Are Not Incubators: The Case of Adriana Smith and the Failure of Medical and Legal Systems
In recent months, the story of Adriana Smith has shaken the United States. Smith, a 25-year-old nurse from Georgia, was declared brain dead while nine weeks pregnant. Instead of allowing her family to honour her dignity and let her rest, doctors kept her on life support for months, treating her as a vessel for the…
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🩸 Free Bleeding, Period Stigma, and the Hypocrisy of Global Sympathy
By Melissa Philippe Let’s talk about something raw, honest, and long overdue: free bleeding, menstrual shame, and the two-faced nature of the global conversation around period access. Not long ago, I made a post about something deeply personal: being allergic to my own period blood. Yes, allergic. Since my very first cycle, I’ve experienced discomfort,…
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“Incorporating Holistic Practices into Postpartum Doula Care”
By Melissa Philippe, Afro-Indigenous Traditional Midwife + Holistic Wellness Practitioner Postpartum care is sacred. It is spiritual. It is ancestral. And yet, in modern Western culture, it is often treated as an afterthought, a brief “recovery” period instead of the profound rite of passage into the rest of your life as it truly is. As…
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