When I first started charting my cycles I wanted to do it purely, 100%, for the natural birth control method it’d provide me. I didn’t want to be on hormones, didn’t want to keep my IUD, and didn’t have any other alternative that I wanted to use, so charting my cycles it was! While I… Read More
The Worst Advice I’ve Ever Heard About Withdrawal
I was pursuing some message boards the other day and someone dared to ask about withdrawal. I say dared to ask because it seems like it was daring, at least from the strong berating they got in the many answers that followed. “Withdrawal doesn’t work, that’s how people get pregnant!” “Wow, what are they teaching… Read More
Recipe: Banana Milkshake (no sugar, no fake sugar)
There is nothing like a delicious milkshake to chug down (wait, you don’t chug yours?… ok…). But the problem is when you don’t want to eat tons and tons of milkshake everyday because of the amount of refined sugar in there. There are good things about milkshakes, too: good fats (in fact, studies have shown… Read More
Prediction: New technologies make birth control pill obsolete
Our culture of women’s health is absolutely dominated by the birth control pill (and a smattering of other hormonal birth control choices). The reasons are simple, really: 1.) It provides effective birth control when used properly without much thought on the part of the user. 2.) It provides a way to “regulate” cycles and make… Read More
How important is it to use natural products for your hormonal health?
I’m actually forcing myself to sit here and write this right now because I want to do a few things. Make some sugar wax because, though I’m quite fond of most body hair, I am not fond of my leg hair and I want it gone (For some reason the color and sparseness of my… Read More
How to get rid of acne after using hormonal birth control
Acne is decidedly common. And decidedly obnoxious. Obviously, you don’t care about it on other people. It’s when it decides to grace your face (or anywhere else) that you have the problem. And it can feel like a huge problem when you are getting acne when you are coming off hormonal birth control, or when… Read More
Does hormonal birth control (like the pill) affect your sex drive?
You may have heard that using hormonal birth control can change (*ahem* lower) your sex drive as a passing joke, your friend saying: “Yeah, that worked for me as birth control because I never wanted to have sex!”, but is it more truth or fiction? Your hormones certainly play a role in your sex drive… Read More
Natural Endometriosis Relief: An interview with Melissa Turner
Endometriosis is… Sh*tty, terrible, awful stuff. If you don’t know much about it, it is basically the growth of uterine lining in places that it should not grow. This tissue is still hormonally sensitive and it goes through the changes your uterine lining goes through monthly, including swelling and “bleeding.” The estimite is that about… Read More
The lifestyles of fertility awareness users 3.) The environmentalist
This is a continuation of a series that was started in this post. See that firs post and part two to get more information about the series and see the other lifestyle habits of fertility awareness users. Right now I am embarking on a month of no trash. I already try not to make waste,… Read More
The lifestyles of fertility awareness users: 2.) The health freak
This is a continuation of a series that was started in this post. Please check it out if you want more of this or want to see the introduction to the series. Health freak is a kind of funny term, yeah? Why does it make me freaky to want to be healthy? Other than the… Read More
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