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EMDR Blew My Mind. Literally.
I was stuck. That is to say my brain was stuck in a recurring PTSD loop. I couldn't get the image of my car crash out of my head. I couldn't sleep. I…
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"Osteoporosis is the silent killer"
Dr. Mary O'Connor wants you to think about bone health today, before it's too late. Actually yesterday would be better. A conversation I wish I'd had…
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"The Retrievals" is Vital Listening
After more than two dozen people, both readers and friends, kept sending me the same link to "The Retrievals," I finally put on my headphones. And felt…
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Shamed by a Doctor
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Four Words I Never Thought I'd Write Again
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My Car Crash Confirmed That the Absence of Female Crash Test Dummies Remains an Ongoing Health Hazard for Women
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On Being Goofy
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A Few Notes on Heartbreak
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Where There's a Will, There's a Way
It shouldn't have taken a car crash to get my affairs in order, but it did. Then I found out a whopping 67% of you do not have wills. "Do you guys ever…
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What is PCOS?
And why does it take so many women years or even decades to be diagnosed?
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Meet Maria Weston Kuhn, the Gen-Z Warrior Taking on the Car Industry
In 2019, Maria and her family were in a car accident. Her father and brother, sitting in the front seat, were fine. Maria and her mother, sitting in the…
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My Car Crash Confirmed That the Absence of Female Crash Test Dummies Remains an Ongoing Health Hazard for Women
Car manufacturers have known for decades that their cars are not designed for women, either for driving or surviving collisions. Last week, this gender…
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When a Woman Betrays a Woman
Tales of men betraying women are as old as heteronormative love and time. But when a woman betrays another woman, what does she--or rather the…
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The Power of Forgiveness
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her Jewish mother at 8 and was kicked out of her evangelical father's home at 16 after years of physical abuse. What she did…
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Old Dog + New Tricks = Life Hack
One day, in the thick of middle age, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik had an epiphany. Society urges us to achieve. At all costs. What if, instead, we…
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