Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one wants to be that person who gets her period in the middle of dinner with a friend only to realize that she doesn't have a ...

Over the last couple of years, I've made a conscious effort to get off my phone. But I've largely replaced scrolling Instagram with listening to podcasts. Between that and my work as a health writer, ...

I don’t want to say my period runs my life, but... it kind of runs my life. I experience each phase of my cycle — menstruation, follicular, ovulation, and luteal — seemingly to the utmost degree, and ...

I got my period for the first time when I was 13 years old. I was at summer camp. At the time, it was the worst thing that could possibly happen. I was scared of tampons and too embarrassed to talk to ...

I've never considered myself a 'woo woo' person. And I suppose, because of this, I've never tried to be… how you say, in touch with my moon time. I knew one thing to be true: every month my period ...

Jessica Biel will publish 'A Kids Book About Periods' on May 14, 2024. There was a joke I heard a lot growing up about people who get their periods. I won’t repeat it here, but believe me when I say ...

Addressing the real-life lived experience of the menstrual cycle and how our perception of the cycle affects day-to-day life, ...

The bleeding takes me by surprise, as it regularly does. Having moments ago concluded that I have little to offer, my existence is hollow, and I am simply. Not. Good. At. Anything. I feel an almost ...

I turned 30 in December 2021 and - spoiler alert for anyone approaching it - it wasn’t the big ‘to-do’ that I imagined 30 would be (after growing up ingesting every rom-com ever made). I thought I ...

My son is super clingy and often comes to the bathroom with me. One of those times I was on my period, so I took the time to explain to him what it meant. Normalizing periods might help him be more ...