Health “You just get stronger”: How Powerlifting Saved My Life
"When I lift, there’s no room for anything else": Alyssa Keiko on how powerlifting has made her stronger and helped her cope with anxiety and depression.
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Health So You Have an STD: The Herpes Edition
You have herpes. Now what?
Health My Only Carriage: On Naming a Nameless Disability
Emma Bolden on finding a name for her disability, and the ways in which it affects her everyday thoughts, actions, and perceptions.
Advice How To Menstruate
Fifteen easy steps.
Beauty The Bisto Legs Diaries #1: A Diagnosis, Not A Boast
One of our writers chronicles her boyfriend's unexpected and unwelcome diagnosis with a rare blood cancer.
Health Color-Coding My Life: On Colors, Sight, and Darkness
As she recovers from a recent eye surgery, Jacqueline Steiger reflects on her relationship with colors and how a unique system helps her navigate the world.
Family Bloodier Than ‘Carrie’: Life with a Body, from Puberty to Childbirth
Ester Bloom on puberty, pregnancy, and how she came to terms with her body.
Health Things Women In Literature Have Died From
Everything.
Health Five Common Health Myths, Debunked And Then Gently Caressed
Take these health myths and give them to someone else. They're not wanted here.
Health How To Be A Good Patient
Natalie Dougall presents a darkly funny account of how to be a good patient.
Health Creation Myth: A Child Tries to Make Sense of Her Disability
Christine Kathleen McMahon shares how she tried to make sense of her disability as a child with little in the way of spiritual guidance.
Family Un-Thorned: Fear, Faith, and the Genes Between
A mother reflects on faith, the fear that never leaves her, and her young daughter's anxiety.
Fitness Feel the Burn: The Double Kimmy Schmidt Workout
Nicole presents a new Feel the Burn workout in which each move need only be endured for twenty seconds.
Health I Donated My Eggs But I Wouldn’t Do It Again
The author on her experience as an egg donor, and why she wouldn't go through with it again.
Health Struggling with Seasonal Affective Disorder
The author on her struggles with seasonal affective disorder and how she copes.
