Anxiety

I want to talk about something that almost never gets named as a pattern, because it’s dressed up as the most responsible thing a woman with persistent pain or symptoms can possibly do: looking for answers. I did it for eighteen years. Appointments, tests, elimination diets, supplements, forums, second opinions, and more late-night searching than […]

Nobody sends flowers for this. Nobody brings a casserole. There’s no card that says “sorry for your loss” when the loss is your own body, or the version of your life you thought you’d be living by now. But it is a loss. I’ve come to believe that’s exactly what it is, and I don’t […]

Almost every woman I’ve worked with has some version of the same two-part story: the pelvic pain, and the anxiety that showed up somewhere alongside it. And almost every one of them has been treated like those are two separate problems that just happen to be occurring in the same body at the same time. […]

If you’ve ever had a glass of wine because you wanted one night where your pelvic pain was not the main character, I want you to know something right away: I get it. When you live with chronic pelvic pain, drinking is not always about being careless or ignoring your body. Sometimes it is about […]