Article Archive for Women's Health

Conception: Part one of our four-part pregnancy series

If you’re like many women, you spend years trying to avoid getting pregnant through various contraceptive methods. But, when the...

Just before my 36th birthday, my world was rocked: I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was successfully treated and expected to...

How Pilates relieves pregnancy discomfort + a prenatal Pilates guide by trimester

Women tend to have a lot of justifiable complaints during pregnancy, ranging from nausea to back pain to acute clumsiness. While...

Jensine Larsen on giving women a global voice

Jensine Larsen, international journalist, CEO of World Pulse™ and self-described unstoppable social media entrepreneur, sat down...

From hamper to happiness in 8 steps

When I was 35, I looked up one day and realized that I hadn't had a life. I'd had a lot of things. I had a husband and a marriage...

A guide to water-conscious, animal-friendly, healthy beauty

Every year, Americans spend more on beauty products than they do on education. Just shy of $100 billion is spent annually on skin...

Colleen Saidman shares what yoga offers women of all ages

A yoga practice can provide women with both obvious and unexpected benefits for the body, mind and spirit. International yoga...

My own introduction to Aunt Flo, as many of we women none-too-affectionately refer to our periods, couldn’t have been worse. She...

What happens to your emotions when you reach menopause

I'm too young for menopause, but I'm old enough to have friends who have reached it (or the condition that precedes it called...

One woman's journey from chronically ill to quite well

"There is one consolation in being sick ... the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before...