No More Tampons or TSS Worries

Ashley

A guest post by Ashley MacInnis January 2012 was a pivotal month for me. At 24 years old, I was bidding farewell to an almost five-year-long relationship, which had stemmed to a five-month-old marriage. A single mum who had lost herself in her relationship and motherhood duties, I felt like a ghost of myself. Devastated at the loss of my relationship, I decided I needed to make some changes for me and improve some of the other relationships in my lives – namely, my relationship with … [Read more...]

From Taboo to Embrace – Sabrina’s Story

Sabrina

A guest post by Sabrina Cravens Menstruation: it's something many girls look forward to with either dread or excitement. As a rite of passage into womanhood, they understand that their "time of the month" will define who they are from their first period on. For me, it was something I was completely unaware of. Periods, and everything involved with them, were a taboo subject in my house. My mother's mother never talked to her about it, so she felt she had no reason to talk to me about it. It … [Read more...]