Posts in Her-Story
A Guide to Self-Advocacy in Healthcare: Expectations and Empowerment

We’ve all felt intimidated walking into a doctor’s office. It’s a vulnerable experience, fraught with expense and sometimes discomfort and fear. It can be smoother and more successful when we have clear expectations before we even make the appointment. Here are nine things we can do to make healthcare experiences more comfortable and less nerve-racking….

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Empowering Wellness through Movement with Nadia Sehweil of BodyTree Studio, Abu Dhabi

Embark on a journey of holistic wellness with Nadia Sehweil, co-founder of Bodytree Studio, on this transformative episode of The SEAM Podcast. Bodytree Studio, the first of its kind in Abu Dhabi, stands as a holistic women's wellness space, fostering well-being through comprehensive mind-body practices. Join us as Nadia shares her journey of creating a supportive community space that offers yoga, pilates, and nourishing meals for women….

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Keep A Breast Founder, Shaney Jo Darden, Is Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Awareness

Prepare to be inspired as Amy Cohen Epstein engages in a captivating conversation with Shaney Jo Darden, the visionary behind the Keep A Breast Foundation. In this interview, Shaney Jo shares her deeply personal connection to breast cancer, revealing how it all began with a heartfelt mission to help just one person…

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Real Talk: What you Really Need to Know About Menopause

Menopause signals the end of your menstrual cycle, and for many women, this is cause for celebration. No more fussing with pads or tampons or worrying about embarrassing menstrual cup leaks.

Even if you're prepared for more common symptoms like intense hot flashes or hormonal weight gain, it's crucial to also recognize some lesser-known changes, particularly to your vaginal and vulvar health. While these symptoms may be uncomfortable, annoying, or shocking, rest assured you and your healthcare provider can work together to relieve, prevent or manage them…

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How to Seek and Offer Help: A Guide to Mental Health Advocacy

Without question, the last couple of years have underscored the necessity of knowing how to ask for help, accept help and offer help. And yet, “help fluency” remains elusive for far too many people. In Go To Help, mother-daughter power duo, Deborah Grayson Riegel and Sophie Riegel, blend their backgrounds in coaching and mental health advocacy to help readers recapture their empathy.

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What It's Like Getting a Preventive Mastectomy to Stop Breast Cancer Before It Starts: Living with BRCA

Elizabeth “Brianne” Lovin underwent a double mastectomy with breast reconstruction, a hysterectomy and a removal of both of her ovaries and fallopian tubes at age forty-one, not because she had cancer, but in order to prevent cancer. She is one of the approximately 0.25% of the population that carries a BRCA gene, a hereditary gene mutation that prevents normal tumor suppression…

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Former CEO & President of Planned Parenthood Gloria Feldt Teaches Women How to Take Back Their Power and Their Health

We sat down with the inspiring Gloria Feldt, the Former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood, to discuss the world of working women, burnout, empowerment, and her new book "INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, & How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good.” In addition to her extensive resume in women’s health, Gloria is also the co-founder of Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. Take a listen.

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Overwhelmed By Motherhood and Marriage? It’s Not Because You’re Doing It Wrong

It has been well-documented that COVID has only increased the weight women in families carry. On author and activist Glennon Doyle’s popular podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things,” she and her cohost and sister, Amanda Doyle, recently discussed women’s Overwhelm. They describe having a ticker of things to do, to worry about, to fix, to anticipate and oversee, always running through their heads, and how carrying the burden of their family members and colleagues’ comfort, safety, health, and success on their backs is flattening them…

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How Jenny Galluzzo and The Second Shift Are Transforming the Way Women Work

Jenny Galluzzo is an agent for change. Her company, The Second Shift, empowers women through work — by connecting them with meaningful, ethical, and diverse jobs.. The company tagline “making work, work for women” is an apt one because it is precisely what Jenny is all about: cultivating careers while advocating for equality in the workplace. In this interview, this inspiring entrepreneur sits down with SEAM founder Amy Cohen Epstein to discuss her experience cultivating this important network as well as her previous life as a journalist.

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