If I hear I need to “create a healthy lifestyle” one more time, I’ll scream 8:07am “It’s a new day; Let’s get healthy and lose some weight.” I wish that was my first thought in the morning. Instead, I weigh the idea of convincing my boyfriend to drive me a mile…

I was an unwanted pregnancy. That isn’t unusual considering over 3 million unplanned pregnancies occur each year. What was unusual was the frequency at which my religious, unwed mother would over-explain how premarital sex is a sin and my conception was not a part of “God’s perfect will.” I vividly…

One of the side effects of the Nexplanon implant is “extensive bleeding.” — Due to my extremely religious and restrictive upbringing, everything I learned about sex and reproductive health I learned online. I had the type of parents who wouldn’t let my pediatrician give me an HPV vaccination in my teens because they thought it was a“license” to have sex. …

One I was 10 years old when I created my first fake name. I was on the playground with my little sisters, and like any ten year old, the lure of the playground just wasn’t as shiny as it used to be. The slides were too short, the monkey bars sucked…