The Vagina is a Self-Cleaning Oven: Why You Should Ditch Feminine Hygiene Products and Trust Your Body to Get the Job Done

The Vagina is a Self-Cleaning Oven: Why You Should Ditch Feminine Hygiene Products and Trust Your Body to Get the Job Done

Everyone’s walked down the grocery store aisle and seen “feminine hygiene” as an option. I’m sorry, but I have never met a single provider of women’s health care for sale on that aisle. Nope; what I find instead are powders, wipes, soaps, creams, scented pads and deodorized tampons, and a multitude of completely useless items no woman should waste her hard-earned money on.

Can You Give Yourself Four Percent?

Can You Give Yourself Four Percent?

Whether going through pregnancy or postpartum, we are constantly in motion – externally and internally. Even when asleep our bodies are hard at work to create and sustain life. This makes it easy to become overwhelmed, exhausted, and emotionally drained. Because of this, self-care should be our first priority, not our last.

Storytellers

Storytellers

We need this from each other. We need to tell, not just our own stories, but each other's. We need to deliberately affirm for each other who we are, what we do, what we think and believe, what we are doing and why. We need to remind each other often of who we are, and why.