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juin 21, 2023Like
What It’s Like Be Nonbinary and Practice Body Neutrality, According to ‘Body Neutral’ Author Jessi Kneeland
You’ve probably seen at least one “flaunt your curves” or “Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top and loved himself and so should you” meme on Instagram just during your morning scroll today. However, what our culture associates with “body positivity” isn’t necessarily how the framework of thought originated. Body positivity began as a political movement that had good intentions of countering oppression against marginalized bodies, but the “love every inch of your body” school of thought that it’s colloquially shek
juin 21, 2023Like
Gender-Affirming Care Is Important
June is Pride Month. By the time she was 12 years old, Erin Reed knew she was transgender. But the Louisiana native didn’t have access to the medical care she needed to transition, so it would be another 17 years before medical intervention would allow her to feel at home in her body. “I went through a long period of trauma associated with hiding who I am,” said Reed, a transgender activist who is now 34. That trauma led to Healthy
juin 21, 2023Like
Tus palabras pueden marcar la diferencia en la lucha contra el estigma del VIH
+ Booklet text Slide 1: Lucha en contra del estigma: Cómo hablar sobre el VIH El estigma duele, pero tus palabras pueden sanar. Esta guía corta te enseñará lo que debes decir para ayudar a romper el estigma. Slide 2: ¿Qué es el estigma del VIH? ¿Qué es el estigma del VIH? Comportamientos y creencias negativas acerca de personas con VIH. ¿Cómo duele el estigma? El estigma frecuentemente causa discriminación. El estigma hace que las personas se sientan Healthy
juin 21, 2023Like
Life with Urothelial Bladder Cancer
Karen Roy had already survived an armed robbery that left her paralyzed at age 19 as well as the death of her husband, which left her a single mom to three teenagers at 47. Then, at age 53, she was diagnosed with urothelial bladder cancer (UBC). “When you’ve gone through as much as I have — and I think I handled it all pretty well — I thought I was due for a break,” Roy said. “I had to rally Healthy
juin 21, 2023Like
Brownstone Youth Services Poised To Open In Iowa
Brownstone Youth Services, a new mental health crisis center, is expected to open at the end of June in Waterloo, Iowa, according to the website wcfcourier.com. The center will include therapy offices, a library, recreation room, and patient bedrooms, including a bedroom for LGBTQ+ patients. The center will open with a capacity for eight children, aged 8-17 years, with room to treat up to 16 patients. The post Brownstone Youth Services Poised To Open In Iowa first appeared on HCD healthcare
juin 21, 2023Like
AdventHealth Names Victoria Navarro To Vice President Of Design And Construction
AdventHealth (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) has named Victoria Navarro as vice president of design and construction. Navarro will be responsible for the planning, aligning, and monitoring of design and construction activities and establishing a Center of Excellence. She will report to Marisa Farabaugh, senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for the system. Navarro has spent most of her professional career in healthcare design, including at Advocate Aurora Health (Downers Grove, Ill.), where she spent more than 10 years providing healthcare
juin 21, 2023Like
Deception: Major Reason Behind An Unhealthy or Unsuccessful Relationship
It’s quite clear that deception in a relationship is destroying! Deception in a relationship is such an unhealthy thing that makes the relationship unstable. When a partner lies destructively or excessively in a relationship, it cannot be easy to detect sometimes because lying or dishonesty can come in the form of body language, behaviors, and other cues. A little bit of lying or lying out of some consideration may help in protecting the relationship but the relationship may become toxic, calmsage
juin 20, 2023Like
We Found the Most Expensive States to Have a Period, and Some of the Top Ones May Surprise You
Every time you have to make that emergency run to the drugstore for tampons or pads, it’ll cost you likely anywhere from $7 to $10. But did you ever think about how much your period costs over a lifetime? And also, did you know that the U.S. state you live in can make a difference in the cost of menstrual products? Thankfully, virtual health platform PlushCare did all the math so you don’t have to—they just released a report about shek
juin 20, 2023Like
I Use Frequency Healing for Aches, Stress & Even Anxiety — Here’s How It Benefits My Health
We all have morning rituals. Part of mine is sitting on the porch swing with a big cup of coffee in hand. I sip it while watching the birds and squirrels eat from the feeder. I look ahead to a lush forest with huge peonies nearly drooping to the ground. The picture of nature in the morning leaves me with a temporary sense of balance in my life. Thirty minutes later, the balance is off. As I leave the serene shek
juin 20, 2023Like
I Was Diagnosed with HIV When I Was 15. It’s Been a Journey of Learning to Love Myself Enough to Take My Meds.
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector I became sexually active when I was really young — just 13 years old. I probably wasn’t emotionally mature enough for sex, but I had a boyfriend I trusted. We used birth control, but not condoms, so we had no protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Though I didn’t worry much about getting a disease through sex — because I believed my boyfriend was having sex only with me — I did make sure Healthy
juin 20, 2023Like
Yes, Financial Stress Can Impact Your Mental Health — Here’s How to Cope with Money Anxiety
Your biweekly paycheck doesn’t come until next week, but your credit card debt has been racking up from the few unexpected trips you had to take this year to visit family or hop on a plane for a friend’s wedding. Or maybe you were laid off recently, still haven’t landed a new job yet, and have young children to take care of. With thousands of layoffs and the remnants of inflated prices affecting people in a very real way, some shek
juin 20, 2023Like
I Was the First Living Kidney Donor with HIV
As told to Erica Rimlinger I’m living with HIV, and I’m perfectly healthy. That statement would have sounded impossible to my childhood self. When I was 8 years old in 1991, I needed corrective eye surgery, and routine pre-op blood work revealed that I had HIV. It’s not routine to test children for HIV, but I accidentally got the panel reserved for adults. A mistake revealed my HIV status, and it split my life into “before” and “after.” As shocking Healthy