It may have been one spontaneous night with an ex, never to be replicated; or perhaps a traumatic moment of violence and sexual abuse. She could be unemployed, ill, very young, or already a bit creaky in the joints. Maybe she has other kids at home and a partner in active duty, in prison, in [...]
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New Motherhood: 5 Ways to Thrive in the Postpartum Period
By Zoe Etkin In America we desperately need to let go of “super mom” syndrome. The expectation that women should be back to work, back in shape, and somehow managing everything else, in 6 weeks or less is just not a realistic portrait of new motherhood. I propose a new way, well, an old way, [...]
Is Monogamy Killing Women’s Sex Drive? The New Drug That Might Help.
“Women are programmed for monogamy” goes the conventional understanding we’ve clung to since Victorian times. After all, they have a finite number of eggs, which means the pressure to secure a viable mate and reproduce is more pressing for them than for men, who produce limitless sperm over the course of a lifetime. It’s a [...]
What Angelina Jolie Left Out About Her Preventive Mastectomy
As you undoubtedly read earlier this week, Angelina Jolie published a profound and honest article through New York Times on Tuesday announcing her elective double mastectomy. The decision arose out of the 37-year-old’s fear of developing breast cancer, which seemed likely given that she carries a faulty BRCA1 gene and had an 87% risk. Her [...]
Positive Birthing: 5 Practical Steps to Optimize a Joyful Birth Experience
By Ana Paula Markel In this day and age of media and busy schedules, first time parents are bombarded with images and articles about childbirth. It becomes very hard for one to prepare for the birth of a baby without images on TV that most of the time portray the birthing process as either medieval [...]
Angelina Jolie Got a Double Mastectomy – Should You? 10 Alternative Preventive Measures.
So, Angelina Jolie got a double mastectomy as a preventative measure, in order to reduce her risk of breast cancer. Should you do the same? Angelina apparently had a particularly strong genetic tendency as well as a strong family history. Angelina made a brave choice that may have been the best one for her, but [...]
Angelina Jolie’s Brave Medical Decision – A Double Mastectomy
In an honest and self-disclosing article for the New York Times, actress and director Angelina Jolie announced this morning her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy. Several questions may be circling your head: Why? When? What does it entail? How will this impact her acting? To address the last one, it looks like the [...]
Breastfeeding Pain – The Aspects of Motherhood No One Told Us About
By Jackie Lai Gift, joy, fun, and of course, love. The words most often mentioned when we think of motherhood. The less spoken, possibly even taboo words: painful, overwhelming, relentless, stressed, anxious, also often describe motherhood. As with any other life experience, the positive and the negative have to coexist. Together, they balance each other [...]
5 Questionable Quotes on Sex, Weight and Beauty from Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries
Ask your grandparents if they’ve heard of a company called “Abercrombie & Fitch” and they are bound to say something about a hunting and fishing retailer. Pull away the current steamy, semi-pornographic ads and teeny bopper vibe, and you’ll find that A&F was actually once the “Greatest Sporting Store in the World,” according to the [...]
Redefining Beauty and Brains as a Middle-Aged Hippie
When I was much younger people saw me as being so beautiful or so smart. Some who knew me very well, actually saw both. I strove at all costs to have my intellect be recognized as my principle asset and, heaven forbid, someone would relate to me as ‘just another pretty face.” To some degree [...]
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