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The Body Image Crisis, Mental Health and Covid-19
In recent weeks, the usual steady background noise of body-shaming and fatphobia has seen an uptick. A higher mortality of Covid-19 among people deemed obese

Your body is powerful-dealing with body image pressure post lockdown
Lockdown hit hard and fast -our normal everyday lives suddenly looked very different. It can be incredibly hard to cope with such extreme changes and

Your Mental Wellbeing in a Pandemic: Some of our tips
Lockdown has been an extreme strain on mental health and wellbeing of all of us. While many of the restrictions have been lifted for now,

Customer journey: Why Lilypads missions matters to me
I have to admit when I was younger I really didn’t care much about what company I bought my sanitary products from. I just went

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Your Questions Answered
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is thought to affect one in ten woman. You might think therefore, that it would be a condition which was widely

“Its only blood!”: Attitudes to period blood in UK classrooms and how we can challenge them
It is not all doom and gloom when it comes to periods and thankfully, as a society, we are moving forward. Periods are not as

Reusable Pads: Your questions answered
Switching to reusables can feel like a big jump, but it doesn’t need to be scary at all. We all have different bodies, and need

Why I’m now a convert to reusable pads
For as long as I can remember my periods have been heavy and painful. Its not something I dwell on but I always viewed periods

Ever had the experience of your pain not been taken seriously, especially when it’s a ‘female problem’
Ever had the experience of your pain not been taken seriously, especially when it’s a ‘female problem’. You’re not alone, research into the gender pain

Pain inequality: Differences in pain and how this reflects an unequal healthcare system
‘Who handles pain better? Women or men?’ This question circled my biology class at school more than once. Frustrating me, definitely more than once. Today,

#nowrongpath when you always feel like your falling short
AAA at A-level, Russell group University, job offer – when nothing seems good enough and how I made choices that work for me rather than

#NowrongPath: The experience of a floater: The Stress of Committing to one Future
I remember clearly the random career paths and ‘jobs’ I would tell my family were in my future; these ranged from astronaut, to chef, to

#Nowrongpath: Is University the right path for me?
I remember getting into my last few years of high school and beginning to feel this strange building pressure. Suddenly we had appointments with careers

Is my period pain normal?
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