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Tag: pain

6 Myths About Miscarriage

Baby Loss Awareness Week is a time to reflect upon the women who have experienced pregnancy loss and post partum baby loss and how they have learned to heal, maintain hope and manage their lives and health moving forward. Today week we’re looking at the myths surrounding miscarriage. Heavy Lifting A survey released in May […]

You Can Always Adopt

I can’t tell you the countless number of times I’ve heard this statement pass through the lips of another person in response to conversations about my fecundity. I feel incapable of fully expressing the sheer frustration I feel every time I hear this from someone. As a 25 year old woman with several intersecting reproductive […]

It’s All Fun & Games Until You Get Sick

1 week into my recovery from surgery and I caught a chest infection. My throat felt grainy and dry and hurt to cough not just in my abdominal area around the incision area but in my throat, it felt fiery and coarse, reminiscent of when you first wake up from surgery and the world seems […]

Ellie Kammer On Turning The Pain of Endometriosis Into Art

Ellie Kammer is tired of the lack of awareness about endometriosis, a life-changing and debilitating gynaecological condition that affects one in ten women. So she decided to turn her suffering into art, in the hope it will get you speaking. Ellie Kammer was 24 when she was diagnosed with endometriosis, a gynaecological condition that occurs […]

Love & Endo

Love is ancient, it transcends all common ties and boundaries. It is a beautiful state of flux. It is truly the most vintage emotion. Love is one of the first emotions we learn to embrace and reciprocate. We guard it fiercely but even those of us who keep it under lock and key desire to […]

Are You Ok?

Are you ok? Some days I want to just set these words on fire. To erase them from the vocabulary of everyone around me.  We’re so conditioned to responding with a half-hearted attempt at an upbeat ‘yeah I’m fine’ or ‘I’m OK, I’m good, thanks’. Trying to mask how we’re really feeling deep down inside. […]