Our Community Manager Lena Thaler interviewed artist Radha Mehta to discuss her extraordinary series “I Am Love”; a womxn empowerment series that incorporates the love language of words of affirmation as a form of healing. They discussed creativity, fertility, what it means to nurture, and how being a woman of color shaped her experience with art.
Acknowledging and promoting fertility awareness is a critical part of reproductive health education and expanding beyond pregnancy prevention is important. The cultural narrative of pregnancy centers around surprise, ease and magic. We have set a cultural expectation that as soon as one stops preventing pregnancy, they get pregnant. But many of our Blue Ova patients share that they are disappointed and rocked by the challenge of getting pregnant.
September is PCOS Awareness Month. PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and it affects 5-10% of women of reproductive age. Part of cultivating our awareness of PCOS is understanding what PCOS is, how it affects different parts of our lives, and how we can respond to a diagnosis. With many of our patients focusing on fertility, we hope to offer a few ways that Chinese Medicine can support optimizing women’s fertility goals to reach their most conceivable cycle and fertile potential.
