Pain, Power & Periods

🌞 Good Morning!

Happy (Almost) June, friends.

🌸 It’s Pelvic Pain Awareness Month, let’s give it the spotlight it deserves. From pregnancy to hypermobility to endo—the Fempower Health site has you covered. Check it out the pelvic health resources.

This week, we’re exploring where pain meets progress:

💊 The truth behind compounded hormones—what’s legal, what’s hype, and what women deserve to know
🩺 A long-overdue update on IUD pain management (finally!)

And as always, here’s what I’m curious about:

📚 New reads (from billion-dollar fashion lessons to period stories)
🧠 A mental health moment as May wraps
🔥 And breaking menopause news out of ASCO

Whether you’re catching your breath or catching up, I hope this sparks reflection—and a few clicks.

Let’s dive in.

🧪 Are Compounded Meds Safe—or Just Filling System Gaps?

From hormone therapy to GLP-1s, more women are turning to compounded meds. But most aren’t FDA-approved—and the debate is getting louder. Between Big Pharma skepticism, insurance barriers, and online marketing, what’s really going on?

👉 I break down the risks, the realities, and what every woman deserves to know before filling that next prescription.

Read the full breakdown →

🙌🏼 IUD Pain Can No Longer Be Ignored: ACOG and CDC Finally Issue Guidance—But Will Clinicians Listen?

“It felt like I was being stabbed.” That’s how many describe IUD insertion—and now ACOG and CDC finally agree it shouldn’t be this way.

👉 Here's what the new guidelines say, what they don’t, and how to speak up if your provider hasn’t caught up yet.

Read the full breakdown →

🙌🏼 What Keeps Me Curious (Plus)

• 📚 New Reads:  

  • BLEED is a bold collection of over 100 real stories about something half the world experiences—but rarely talks about: periods.

  • On the business side, check out Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business That Rocked the Fashion Industry which spills the tea on the entrepreneurial journey from a woman’s perspective and includes all the lessons learned and mistakes made along the way to a billion-dollar business and public company.

• 🔥 Hot of the Press: ASCO ends this weekend. Look what’s being announced! Menopause drug may help prevent invasive breast cancer, clinical trial finds. (Thanks, Allison Lewin for posting on LinkedIn!)

• 🥺 Suffer from Anxiety?: On this last day of Mental Health Month, I wanted to share helpful tips on how to manage panic attacks.

• 🙌🏼 I’m a Woman: In case you need this refresher on the inspiring poem (and performance) with Maya Angelou…..

 💬 Announcements

• 📆 Monthly Slack Call: ICYMI for those who are on the Fempower Health Slack Community, we’re kicking off a regular community call to get to know each other and pave a path forward. 💬 If you haven’t joined the Slack Community, learn more here.