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The Most Empowering Thing A Woman Can Do Is Listen To Her Own Body

Featured This Month — August's In Bloom: The Golden Age of the Female Cycle

For something that affects up to 70% of women, uterine fibroids remain surprisingly absent from everyday conversation.

This weeks Across the Month column, created in collaboration with The Abundant Woman, explores the silence surrounding fibroids, t

Sometimes the people who love us most rush to solve our problems when all we really need is someone willing to sit beside us in them.

This week’s From You letter comes from Cassie, who shared something I think many women will relate to.

Thank

Sometimes healing doesn’t come from advice.

Sometimes it comes from hearing someone say,

“Me too.” 🤍

There is something strangely lonely about experiences that so many women share.

Pain. Burnout. Insecurity. Hormonal fluctuations. Fertility struggles. The pressure to hold everything together.

Many of us understand these experiences intimately, yet

Women performing for men is an age old conversation.

But why are women performing for other women too?

June’s In Bloom, Women Watching Women, is now live on the website.

With love,
Ava

Female chronic illness can carry so much more than physical pain.

Sometimes it’s grief. Sometimes exhaustion. Sometimes resentment at how long it took to be heard. And sometimes it’s anger that lingers long after the appointment ends.

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A lot of women carry quiet guilt around admitting that parts of womanhood can feel difficult.

Not because they hate being women.
Not because there isn’t beauty in it.
But because there’s often an unspoken expectation to carry discomfort

“The Most Empowering Thing A Woman Can Do Is Listen To Her Own Body”

— Ava Chessari