by Lara | Feb 12, 2017 | Lara Owen, Menstrual wellbeing, Menstruation |
You know that feeling when you’ve been out in the world, doing a hard day at work or on a trip away, and you open your front door and step into your domain, and feel your body release and your breath slow down? You pat your greeting dog, put your heavy bags...
by Lara | Jan 7, 2017 | Lara Owen |
Happy New Year! I’ve spent much of the holidays gardening, and finding unexpected treasures, like an aubergine plant full of nascent eggplants, happily hidden in the semi-shade of an abundant salvia. In a similar spirit, I just went through my old blog posts,...
by Lara | Nov 23, 2016 | Growing Your Inner Light, Lara Owen, Refuge and retreat, Women's wellbeing |
The world is very noisy right now, and there is a growing discourse of intolerance. Many people are feeling afraid, threatened, and overwhelmed. The echoes of the US election and its aftermath are reverberating around the planet, reminding us of dark and ugly times...
by Lara | Nov 7, 2016 | Lara Owen articles, Menstrual bleeding, Menstrual wellbeing, Menstruation |
I started writing a blog post yesterday, but it became a much longer piece and ended up as an article describing the symptom clusters that go along with three common menstrual imbalances: bleeding too much, bleeding too little, and bleeding irregularly; exploring the...
by Lara | Oct 31, 2016 | Lara Owen |
When I was nine years old, we moved to a new town. In my new school I made friends with a girl called Lindsay who lived in the next street, and we would walk home together. One day she invited me in to meet her family. Her mother welcomed me in and offered me a drink...
