Women’s mental health
Life stages, hormones, motherhood and wellbeing for women. 36 guides in 8 groups.
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Culture & women
- Women in patriarchal families & communities: the weight on your mindLoving your family and wanting a say in your own life can both be true. What you feel makes sense, and you are not alone.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Finding more freedom, safely: small steps for women in restrictive settingsYour safety comes first, and your hopes still matter. Small, careful steps can open real space in your life.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Honour, shame & family reputation: what women carryYour family’s name should never be heavier than your safety, your voice or your life. You deserve dignity too.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Daughters between two culturesYou can honour where you come from and still grow into who you are. Love and your own path can live side by side.⏱ 4 min
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Mood & hormones
- Periods, PMDD & hormonesYour cycle can shape how you feel, and your feelings are real. Knowing your pattern is the first step to feeling more in control.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - PMDD: when your period affects your moodIf you feel like a different person for part of every month, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Perimenopause & menopause: understanding itHot flashes, broken sleep, brain fog and big feelings are real. You are not “going crazy”, and you don’t have to just push through.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - Menopause at work, home & in relationshipsMenopause doesn’t happen in a bubble. With a little understanding, work, love and family life can make room for it.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Perimenopause: mood swings, anxiety and rageIf you feel like a stranger to yourself lately, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone. These waves have real causes, and real help exists.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Perimenopause brain fog and sleepLost words, lost keys and 3 a.m. wake-ups are common in perimenopause. For most people the fog lifts, and there is a lot you can do in the meantime.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Perimenopause at work and at homeYou don’t have to choose between hiding it and falling apart. A few honest words and small changes can make work and home feel manageable again.⏱ 4 min
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Pregnancy & after birth
- Perinatal OCD: scary thoughts in pregnancy and after birthFrightening thoughts about your baby don’t make you dangerous. They show how much you care, and help can quiet them.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Postpartum psychosis: signs and getting urgent helpPostpartum psychosis is rare, sudden and frightening, but it is treatable. Getting help fast is an act of love, and almost every mum recovers fully.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - Mom rage: anger after having a babyRage after a baby is more common than anyone tells you. It is a signal that you need more support, not a sign that you are a bad parent.⏱ 3 min
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Women’s health & bodies
- When women’s symptoms are dismissedYou know your body. If you have been brushed off, your symptoms still matter, and there are ways to be heard.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - PCOS, endometriosis & your mental healthThese conditions touch your body, your mood and how you see yourself. Your feelings make sense, and you deserve care for all of it.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Anxiety & depression in womenWorry and low mood are common in women, and they are not a personal failing. With the right support, they can ease.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - ADHD & autism in women and girlsIf you spent years feeling “too much” and “not enough” at the same time, there may be a reason, and you were never the problem.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - PCOS and your mental healthPCOS can weigh on your mood as much as your body. That is common, it is not your fault, and you deserve care for your mind too.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - PCOS, body image and confidence (hair, skin, weight)Your body is not a problem to hide. You deserve to feel at home in your skin, whatever PCOS brings.⏱ 3 min
📝 3› - Endometriosis and your mental healthEndometriosis pain is real, and so is the toll it can take on your mind. You deserve care for both.⏱ 3 min
📝 4› - Endometriosis pain at work, in relationships and being believedYour pain is real. You deserve to be believed, supported at work and loved without having to hide it.⏱ 3 min
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Women’s roles & pressures
- Motherhood & losing yourselfYou can love your children deeply and still miss the woman you were. Both are true, and there is room for you in your own life.⏱ 6 min
📝 4› - Women at work: bias, ambition & burnoutYour ambition is valid, your exhaustion is real, and the bias is not in your head. You deserve work that doesn’t cost you your health.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Women & anger: permission to feel itYour anger is not too much. It is information, and you are allowed to listen to it.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Pressure to marry & have childrenYour life is not running late. There is no single timeline for love, family or a meaningful life.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Caught in the middle: women caring for kids and aging parentsYou can’t be everything to everyone, and you were never meant to carry two generations alone.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Body image & beauty pressure in womenYour body is not a before picture. It is where you live, and it deserves kindness at every size, shape, shade and age.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Aging as a womanEvery year you’ve lived has added something. You don’t have to shrink, fade or apologise for growing older.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Women’s friendships & lonelinessYou deserve friends who know the real you. It’s never too late, or too awkward, to find them.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Women & money stressMoney worries are not a personal failing. Many of the pressures women face were built into the system, and you can still take steady steps toward feeling safer.⏱ 4 min
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Women’s safety & trauma
- Trauma in women: violence, safety & healingWhat happened to you was not your fault. You can feel safe in your body and your life again, at your own pace.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Sexism & harassmentBeing treated unfairly because of your gender is not your fault, and its toll on your mind is real. You deserve respect and support.⏱ 3 min
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Women’s wellbeing
- Women’s mental healthFrom first periods to later life, your mind and body go through a lot. Your feelings are real, and support is here at every stage.⏱ 7 min
📝 3› - Women of colour & mental healthYou do not have to carry everything, prove everything, or be strong all the time. Your wellbeing matters for its own sake.⏱ 5 min
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