Health & Wellness
How to Finish the Year Without Burning Yourself Out
The final quarter of the year is structurally the hardest one, and most people treat it as a matter of willpower rather than as a predictable convergence o...
Charlotte Blake
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Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness
Healthy Aging Starts Earlier Than You Think
September is designated Healthy Aging Month, and the observance has a marketing problem. The phrase reads as a topic for women in their seventies, which me...
Health & Wellness
When Sunday Night Anxiety Becomes a Warning Sign
There is a specific feeling that arrives, for many women, somewhere between four and eight in the evening on Sunday. It is not exactly dread, though dread...
Health & Wellness
The Diagnosis You Are Living With and Have Not Named
There is a particular conversation that happens between women, often somewhere around the fifteenth year of friendship, in which one of them mentions a sym...
Health & Wellness
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed
The data on misdiagnosis is one of the more uncomfortable bodies of evidence in contemporary medicine. Women are more likely than men to receive incorrect...
Health & Wellness
The Health Signals Women Are Trained to Ignore
A woman I know sat in her kitchen one morning with her chest hurting in a way it had not hurt before, and she made coffee. She thought about whether the pa...
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Why Women Need Spaces Where They Do Not Have to Perform
There is a face most women put on before they leave the house. It is the face that says everything is fine. It is the face that walks into the meeting prep...