Happy Girl Winter: How to Overcome Seasonal Depressive Disorder
More Than a Tick-the-Box Process: Five Things I Learned Through Grief
I refuse to be another voice in the void sharing the five stages of ‘normal’ grief to try and console people who have had their lives flipped upside down. Instead, I want to suggest five life lessons that grief has provided, a solace that makes them mean something rather than diluting them down into a tick-the-box process…
Lost in Translation: How Language Around Women’s Pain Creates The Pain Gap
How can such different language be used to describe identical pain? As a scientist by training, I turned to recent research for answers. The critical problem appeared to be simple and, unfortunately, unsurprising. While kidney stones can affect everyone, ovarian cysts only affect people with wombs…
The Pain Gap: Why is Women’s Pain Not Taken Seriously?
The relationship between women and pain is an interesting one. Studies show that, globally, women experience more pain over their lifetimes than men. It is the expectation that women will inherently experience pain. This expectation forms the basis of the phenomena of the pain gap. This bias that women are expected to experience pain their entire lives is now deeply embedded into modern medical discourse…