One of the biggest problems I experience in my daily life is forgetting things that I desperately need. For example, some of the most important school items to carry around while taking a chemistry class are a calculator, your periodic table, and a pencil. Guess what I forgot on the day of my organic chemistry… Read More 5 Ways to Keep Your Brain Fit
As you can probably tell from the title of this article, I’ve had a pretty overwhelming semester. It all began when I decided to learn Jiu-Jitsu for a project in a Comparative Studies course at Ohio State University. Robin Gieseler, our Jiu-Jitsu instructor, collaborated with our class and had the goal of spreading more awareness… Read More Learning Jiu-Jitsu as a Sexual Assault Survivor
One of the largest problems young women face today is skewed body image. I have never met a young girl that describes their body as “strong” or “spectacular.” Instead they tend to focus on their perceived flaws, such as “no thigh gap” or “huge stomach.” Pressure to look and act a certain way is largely… Read More Intuitive Eating: Putting Diets to Shame
Mindfulness has become a trend in the self-care industry. This is probably because it’s such a simple, easy way to improve your day-to-day life. I was first introduced to this practice when I started counseling sessions during my freshman year of college. My counselor, Angela Weixel, is a mindfulness expert and explained that this method… Read More My Journey to Mindfulness
At the risk of stating the obvious, the world is a very diverse place. There are different landscapes, different climates, different cultures, different societies, and different people with different lifestyles within those societies. It stands to reason, then, that the health problems these people experience are also quite diverse. Around the world, women face different… Read More Women’s Health Around the World
As a person who could spend hours looking at healthy recipes, or going to restaurants with the healthy options (fancy turkey burgers and the like), I love indulging. Yes, winter is the time to be healthy, but what’s winter without hot chocolate and comfort foods?! Moderation is key to staying healthy and happy during this… Read More Cold Weather Recipes
You’re watching a TV show. On screen, a woman goes pale, clutches her left arm, and collapses to the ground, unconscious. She’ll be taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a heart attack, and she’ll probably survive. We’ve likely all seen it at one point or another, whether depicted on screen or described in text,… Read More What Makes Women’s Health Different?
You know those days where nothing goes your way? When your stress is at an all time high and it just continues to build? This can lead to times where focusing on a midterm, a job interview, or even feedback from a school, seems impossible. Students in high school and college experience what seems like… Read More Ways to De-Stress Without Feeling Unproductive
Health is not a switch. To most people, especially in America, health is some binary, finite thing. You’re either healthy, or you’re not. You have health, or you don’t. It exists in your life, or it doesn’t. On, off. Present, absent. Static. Many people think of health simply as the absence of physical sickness, which… Read More The Nature of Health
I broke my foot this fall. Actually, I found out that my foot was broken this fall, but there’s a good chance that it had been broken for at least a few months before that. Stress fractures are tricky things, since they don’t show up well on X-rays or generate the same symptoms that an… Read More The Importance of Chill
