The pill & my face #Periodically 31

Here's a blog I didn't want to write but that's been itching to get out for a couple of months. It's about a problem I didn't realise the extent of until the worst had passed, so keep in mind that this story has a slightly happier ending than most of my blogs! A Skin Thing…

Down a different rabbit hole… #Periodically 30

For whatever reason, the area between my legs has always been a place of curiosity for me, perhaps not helped by my discovery of the vagina-brain connection theory discussed in Naomi Wolf's Vagina. Recently, and with help from my psychosexual counsellor, I've realised that this 'curiosity' might have meant I always had a certain 'vulnerability'…

Back in the Saddle (not that one) #Periodically 28 – Fitness in Mind

The pelvic pain that these blogs have been documenting has forced me to give up several things that I took for granted in the past. One of them, some of you will know, is running. Four years ago now (where the hell did they go?!) I got drunk, fell down some stairs and signed up for…