Anger is a Messenger

by Emma | Feb 18, 2025

Anger is a destroyer of demons that obstruct your growth and happiness. Anger is a feeling that erupts sometimes as if out of nowhere.The boiling, bubbling tension just waiting to be triggered.It’s loud, it’s intimidating, even a nuisance.You should be ashamed to...

Anger and Our Wild Selves

by Forest | Feb 18, 2025

“Betty used to say, ‘Women need to get in touch with their anger and they need to do it all the time,’” Carlin said as the group of us discussed this month’s blog topic over zoom. “Pleasure connects us to our anger,” said one writer. “I actually have a really hard...

My Anger Experience

by Kaylea Forsythe | Feb 18, 2025

Photo: A wood burning I made to remind myself to let my Heart unfurl and feel it all A couple of years ago, one of my best friends had her I.U.D. removed. Notoriously, I.U.D. insertion is painful and traumatizing. The cramps from insertion mimic labor contractions....

Ready to Pop

by Simone | Feb 18, 2025

Right now, anger swells inside me like a balloon about to pop. But it doesn’t. Instead, it simmers just beneath the surface of my skin, perfectly expanding into every space of my being, yet so neatly confined. This anger—buried beneath sadness, or perhaps the sadness...

Carlin’s Bodysex Research

by Carlin Ross | Jan 22, 2025

Covid lockdown happened on the heels of our Goop episode. We’d received thousands of emails – our workshops were booked with wait lists – then everything went dark.  Betty was dying and I was making healthcare decisions over the phone. With a broken...

My Menopause Story

by Laura Bogush | Jan 7, 2025

I’ve been taking hormone replacement therapy for nearly 30 years. It’s improved my quality of life and physical health. I wouldn’t want to live without it. At age 37, my periods stopped abruptly. I would awaken at night, hot and drenched in sweat. These episodes...