Tag: Women’s 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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🩸 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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Pregnancy is Dangerous. Here’s Why You Should Treat It Like the Sacred, Risky Initiation It Actually Is.
Many times, people are shocked that as a traditional midwife women’s health activist, holistic wellness and spiritual practitioner, I am always actively warning, educating and building knowledge for people to understand what pregnancy and motherhood really mean and what it looks like, what it could look like and often times that comes with backlash because…
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The Misinterpretation of ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’
For generations, faith communities have embraced the command to “be fruitful and multiply” as a blanket mandate for all women, often pushing the idea that a woman’s highest calling is to bear as many children as possible as quickly as possible. But is that truly what God intended? When we look at scripture in its…
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The Role of Traditional Midwives in Modern Healthcare
The Role of Traditional Midwives in Modern Healthcare As a traditional midwife living in America, I often have to prove my midwifery skills. Traditional midwifery is an ancestral practice that has supported women and families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for centuries. Our program, Rooted in Wisdom, is our community-centred women’s group; we receive this…
Blissful Births & Connections 