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 | 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 7, 2016 | Lara Owen, Menopause |
Menopause is not experienced the same way everywhere in the world, and in fact the differences are stark. Only in the Western industrially-developed world has menopause become highly symptomatic and culturally problematic. I talked about some of the factors involved...
by Lara | Jul 30, 2016 | Lara Owen, Menopause, Women's wellbeing |
Why is menopause for Western women in developed countries so problematic? For the past three years I’ve subscribed to Google Alerts for notification of press about menopause from all over the world, which turn up in my inbox every day. You may not be surprised...
by Lara | Jul 24, 2016 | Lara Owen, Menopause |
There’s a time during the menopause transition in which many women find their symptoms are overwhelming, especially if they have a lot of hot flashes or bad insomnia, which can make you feel pretty wretched. At such times, it is very natural to want a quick fix,...
