The Journal
Every entry here comes from a woman in the community who decided to share what she went through. What helped, what didn't, and what nobody told her at the time. Read them and you might find something useful. You might also just find the words for something you have been carrying on your own.
Group One
Cycles, contraception, hormones, vitamins and nutrients, skin, sleep, energy, and every way a body changes without asking permission first. What is actually happening, explained plainly, alongside the women who have lived it.
1 entry
She was sixteen, with cystic acne and period pain bad enough to miss school. The pill was suggested almost as an afterthought, and she took it for ten years without ever really understanding what it was doing. Here is what it actually does, the honest trade-offs, and the questions she wishes someone had helped her ask.
Read her story →Group Two
Being believed, or not. The mental load of managing your own health. Identity through a transition, confidence, self-doubt, and the quiet work of learning to trust what your own body is telling you.
1 entry
For years she edited herself before she spoke. Rounding the numbers down, swapping "always" for "sometimes", cutting anything that sounded dramatic, which turned out to mean anything that sounded true. Then a woman she barely knew said something oddly specific, and it stopped.
Read her story →Group Three
Partners, mothers, daughters, friends and doctors. Intimacy and libido, explaining yourself to someone who has not lived it, mothering through your own transition, and the conversations that are hardest to start.
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