Female health
Female health encompasses a wide range of topics unique to women. Our expert contributors provide information and advice on issues such as reproductive health, hormonal balance, menopause, and overall wellness. Learn about preventative care, healthy lifestyle choices, and medical advancements that can improve your quality of life. Our articles aim to empower women with knowledge and support for every stage of life.
Reclaiming Trust, Consent, and Physiological Birth in an Authoritarian Medical System
One of the most important questions in maternity care is rarely asked directly, "Who is in charge?" Many people assume the answer is obvious. Some believe it is the physician. Others point to...
Why Regional Athletes Deserve Better and What I’m Doing About It
I didn’t grow up here in Bendigo. That’s worth saying upfront, because it changes the story. I moved to Bendigo about fifteen years ago, not born into this community, not raised watching regional sport...
Why Women Are No Longer Willing to Play Small
Something is shifting. Across boardrooms, businesses, communities, dance floors, retreats, and social movements, more women are speaking up, taking up space, expressing themselves more freely, and questioning the...
Why a Woman’s Menstrual Cycle Can Influence Athletic Performance
For decades, sports science was built around male physiology and then generalized to everyone else. Women were often excluded from research because the menstrual cycle was considered a “complicating variable,"...
GoodVibes Summer Movement Guide
Summer has a way of disrupting routines, but that does not mean your progress has to disappear with them. By embracing a more flexible and playful approach to movement, the season can become an opportunity...
Why High-Achieving Women Are Losing Connection to Themselves and Their Relationships
Success can look complete on the outside while creating emotional distance, nervous system overload, and a quiet loss of connection in a woman’s private life. If you have built a career, managed a household...
Why Asking Questions About Hormone Therapy is Part Of Better Healthcare
There are moments in healthcare when the issue is not necessarily the treatment plan itself. It is the conversation around the treatment plan. Recently, I had one of those moments. I have been on hormone...
The Cost of Living at War With Yourself and Why Healing Begins When We Stop Fighting Our Bodies
Have you ever stopped to consider how much energy you spend fighting yourself? Not fighting your circumstances. Not fighting your schedule. Not even fighting your illness. Fighting yourself.
Eight Habits That Help Overwhelmed Mothers Regulate Their Nervous System First
Most advice aimed at tired mothers starts in the wrong place. It tells you to eat cleaner, sleep earlier, exercise more, and build better routines, as if willpower were the missing ingredient. But if...
A Mother's Guide to a Calmer Nervous System and Healthier Gut
Your nervous system drives your gut health, and your gut health influences your mental health. So creating a healthy nervous system will support your gut and brain and influence your postpartum time...
Motherhood as The Second Adolescence No One Warns You About
When we think of adolescence, we picture awkward growth spurts, changing hormones, emotional ups and downs, and the exhausting question, "Who am I now?" Most of us assume we leave that chapter behind...
Aging Gracefully After 50 and a Global Guide to Self-Care, Intimacy, and Sensual Confidence
Women over 50 are entering a new era, one where sensuality, self-care, and emotional wellbeing are finally being recognized as essential components of healthy aging. Yet, despite this cultural shift...
Beyond Compliance and Protecting Informed Consent Through Honest Communication and Doula Support
In healthcare, consent is often treated as a signature, a checkbox, or a verbal agreement. Yet true informed consent is much more than obtaining a “yes.” It is a process of honest communication that...
The Art of Touch, Sexual Healing & Postpartum Pleasure
Postpartum intimacy begins far beyond physical recovery. While childbirth transforms the body, it also reshapes how we experience closeness, pleasure, and connection. As a holistic coach and...
Why Your Gut May Be the Missing Piece in Managing Perimenopausal Hot Flushes
For many women, perimenopause arrives like an unwelcome guest. One day, you are managing your career, family, and social life with relative ease. Next, you are waking at 3 a.m., drenched in sweat...
