Do hormonal contraceptives cause moodiness, depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues? Or do they help it? That tends to be a common question asked by most women as well as slews of scientific researchers. Because of that, you’d think we’d have more answers by now, but they don’t really seem to be rolling in…. Read More
Book Review: Period Repair Manual
Have you ever read a book and you just can’t stop recommending it to people? Maybe even start to feel like everyone is going to think you are paid to recommend it to them? Yeah, that. That’s how I’ve been feeling about Period Repair Manual by Dr. Lara Briden. I bought the book basically the… Read More
Why I became a fertility awareness educator (Part 3: The motivation and learning process)
This is a three part series, if you have read part 1 and 2 find those here: Part 1; Part 2 After my 6 month intensive solo studying period I finally heard the news that the teacher training course was ready and open for application. I also got the opportunity to travel a couple… Read More
Why I became a fertility awareness educator (Part 2: The search for education)
This is the second part of a series, if you have not read part 1 check that out here first. My cycles confused me. It wasn’t a particularly dangerous confusion, I knew enough to know that if I wasn’t sure about something to consider myself fertile. And, oddly, that made me feel much more… Read More
Why I became a fertility awareness educator (Part 1 – Learning fertility awareness)
You may or may not be familiar with my story of starting to use the fertility awareness method. It was a mixture of excitement, amazement, scared-shitlessness, and a lot of appreciation. It all started when I heard about it from a friend (an online friend, actually) and just kind of thought “that’s cool and something… Read More
Looking for natural birth control doesn’t need to be a struggle
This is a guest post by Aisha Mukooza I started thinking about birth control options before I was sexually active. Everything I heard or learned about hormonal birth control sounded repulsive to me. I hate taking any kind of medication, even when I’m ill, so the idea of taking a pill everyday, especially when I’m… Read More
The largely overlooked player in your hormonal health
Charting your cycles is such a cool way to get a window into what is happening with your hormones, but it can also be nerve wracking for some people. When I was going through teacher training we were sharing what they “hard” part of charting was for all of us. A lot of people mentioned… Read More
Birth control freedom for life
This is a guest post by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. I was recently interviewed by her about birth control options and fertility awareness, check it here. I can honestly say that one of the greatest gifts I have had in my life is learning that I could use my own body as birth control, for free, and in… Read More
Spice up your intimacy by taking joint responsibility for fertility
This is a guest post by Haley Thomas of Kindara Being safe when it comes to your sexual health is extremely important, but imagine not having to interrupt the mood by asking, “do you have a condom?” Similarly, harmful chemicals and hormones found in birth control aren’t what typically come to mind as powerful aphrodisiacs,… Read More
What are your preferred method(s) of birth control?
After my recent post about withdrawal, I started thinking about the many varieties of birth control methods we have out there when we start combining methods, especially when you have a handle on what is happening with our cycle and know exactly when you are fertile based on charting your cycles with the sympto-thermal method… Read More
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