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Silencing the Negative Self Talk – Part 1

I am a firm believer that your external voices during your formative years, become your permanent internal voice, so dependent on whether you were surrounded by encouragement and peace or anxiety and insults as a...

Responsibility vs Relationship

This is going to be short and sweet. It’s just a thought that attacked me a few days ago and hasn’t let me go since. I speak to my parents every single day, and when...

Journey to Becoming your Mum: Our Bump

My journey to motherhood was filled with bumps along the road but I would not change it for anything The six months of bedrest both at the hospital and at home enabled me to bond with my...

Redefining

Words have power, sometimes destructive power, but none of this power is inherent. Let’s restate this as “words have the power we give them.” For generations, certain words have been used against us. Words like selfish,...

Coping with Anxiety during stressful times

So far, 2020 has been nothing like what we would have imagined and feels like a page ripped out of a horror story. Most of us feel like there has been something bad in each...

No Job, No Money, Now What?

Medisha Augustine is an IT Support Technician and experienced Banker who channeled her passion for technology and social media into her private company - Foresight Solutions which focuses on social media management. She truly believes...

MOM ● WIFE ● COOK

In my family, the men were predominantly the cooks while the women took care of the other chores. Not quite the norm but there was always the advantage of coming home to a well-cooked meal...

THE BREADWOMAN

About the Author: Yakima Cuffy is an Attorney-at-law and a talented writer of poems, short stories, and plays. She dedicates time to participate in spoken poetry events, literary festivals, and short story competitions. Originally written...

Writing Your Resume

Do you struggle with writing a good resume? Are you still trying to figure out how to start?  Need to know which common mistakes to avoid when updating your resume? Deeana Peter is more than happy to share...

How I Cheated Death and COVID-19

"I should be on the front line. I should be with my fellow nurses saving lives. But, instead, I’m home recovering from weeks of pure hell. I got knocked off my feet by COVID-19. And...

Could You Walk a Mile in Her Shoes?

This reflection was submitted to the Global Health Diaries following a medical trip to Uganda sponsored by the University of Vermont Robert Larner M.D. College of Medicine and the Western Connecticut Health Network. This was published in the Global Health eMagazine March 2020 edition.

What You Need to Know About Chlamydia

In Part I of The ABCs of Sexually Transmitted Diseases series we learned about trichomoniasis – one of the three most common infectious causes of vaginal...

Being a Health Advocate: A Stroke Survivor Story by Alyson McCord

Louisiana attorney Alyson McCord knows how to advocate for her clients. But a debilitating stroke nearly deprived her of the ability to speak for herself. After...

Dangerously Different

It doesn’t take more than a quick Google search to find out that hypothyroidism and weight loss do not normally go together. But they do for...

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My Fibromyalgia Story

  My obsession with butterflies started over a decade ago when my life gradually began to change. My friends know me as Queen Butterfly Shakelia...

The Struggles & Successes of Women with ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is often underdiagnosed and overlooked in women. Left untreated, women may end up struggling...

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

This week we're highlighting the amazing work done by Women's Health Plus in the discussion on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) with OBGYN, Dr. Diane...

Redefining

Words have power, sometimes destructive power, but none of this power is inherent. Let’s restate this as “words have the power we give them.”...