Tampons Contain Toxic Metals: What You Need to Know and Safer Alternatives
Tampons Contain Toxic Metals: What You Need to Know and Safer Alternatives
As if menstruators don’t have enough to worry about, a recent study has unveiled a concerning issue: tampons, one of the most widely used menstrual products, may contain several toxic... Read more...
How Menstruation Affects Mental Health: Tips for Managing Mood Swings and Anxiety
How Menstruation Affects Mental Health: Tips for Managing Mood Swings and Anxiety
If you're wondering why your mental state seems to take a rollercoaster ride during your period, you're not alone. Menstruation and mental health are closely linked, with hormonal fluctuations playing a significant... Read more...
How Exercise Can Help Relieve Menstrual Cramps: Best Workouts for Your Period
How Exercise Can Help Relieve Menstrual Cramps: Best Workouts for Your Period
We get that the last thing you might want to do when you're on your period is exercise - especially if you experience any pain. However, some gentle, basic movements... Read more...
Are Menstrual Blood Clots Normal?
Are Menstrual Blood Clots Normal?
The first time I saw a menstrual clot, I was a preteen. It was during one of my first menstrual cycles,  and I was totally unprepared. I had no idea... Read more...
How to Use Your Menstrual Cycle to Your Advantage
How to Use Your Menstrual Cycle to Your Advantage
As period-havers, we move through our menstrual cycles with ups and downs of energy and productivity as our bodies adjust to continual hormonal shifts throughout our cycles. Here’s how to navigate... Read more...
Knowing Your Ride: How Your Cycle Affects Your Mood
Knowing Your Ride: How Your Cycle Affects Your Mood
Knowing the impact of the rise and fall of your hormones on your mood throughout your cycle can allow you to create healthy routines, boundaries and practices to contribute to a... Read more...
Irregular Periods: The Why (and if) Behind Your Period Being Late
Irregular Periods: The Why (and if) Behind Your Period Being Late
The ritualistic aspect of having a regular period has provided a lot of information and guidance to me over the years. Knowing that my period is going to come around... Read more...
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Alcohol and its effects on the Menstrual Cycle
An increasing number of people are doing Dry January or other dry months during the year, as a way to check in with their relationship with alcohol and to explore... Read more...
From Lowering Prostaglandins to PMS Remedies - 5 Tips To Heal Your Cycle Naturally
From Lowering Prostaglandins to PMS Remedies - 5 Tips To Heal Your Cycle Naturally
One of my favourite things to tell anyone who is just beginning their menstrual cycle healing journey is that your period doesn’t have to be the worst time of the month. I... Read more...
THE 411 ON CYCLE SYNCING (FROM A CYCLE SYNCING ENTHUSIAST)
THE 411 ON CYCLE SYNCING (FROM A CYCLE SYNCING ENTHUSIAST)
I started cycle syncing after years of struggling with endometriosis and PMDD. Week after week, month and after month I found myself struggling with severe symptoms such as pain, anxiety,... Read more...
YOU’RE NOT OVERREACTING - IT COULD BE PMDD
YOU’RE NOT OVERREACTING - IT COULD BE PMDD
Learning to live with PMDD has been one of the most difficult but also one of the most empowering experiences of my life. I have found by taking a multi-pronged... Read more...
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How Unplanned Pregnancy Can Affect Your Sex Life
This blog post is not about access to abortion or the lack thereof, nor is it about sex education. This is about what most sex education misses - the trauma that can... Read more...
Small Ways to Make a Difference
Small Ways to Make a Difference
Been feeling a little down from the constant onslaught of frankly overwhelming news recently? Here are some small actions you can take that really do make a difference. Read more...
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and When to Talk to Your Doctor about It
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and When to Talk to Your Doctor about It
PMDD is a worse version of PMS, and having it doesn’t make you any less of the kind of person that you are. Read more...
How to Spice Up Your Masturbation Routine
How to Spice Up Your Masturbation Routine
If you’ve been feeling a little bit uninspired to get into some self-loving, here are some ways to spice things up!  Read more...
The COVID-19 Vaccine and your period
The COVID-19 Vaccine And Your Period
There's been a lot of questions about how and whether the COVID-19 vaccines affect your period. Let's dig into them. Read more...
The Importance of Boundaries Online
The Importance of Boundaries Online
If we’re going to have productive, nuanced, and world-improving conversations online, we need to be sure that we can increase our tolerance for discomfort, and know when we need to... Read more...
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Four Exhausting Myths About Period Sex, Debunked
I promise, it’s not like that prom scene from Carrie.  Read more...
Managing Anxiety in a White Supremacist World
Managing Anxiety in a White Supremacist World
"I’m not a problem to be solved. I’m a person who is coping as they work to change a broken society." Read more...
Sleep and Your Period
Sleep and Your Period
Menstruation and overheated, uncomfortable and disrupted sleeps often go hand-in-hand. Here are a few tips to help you get your much needed rest. Read more...
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Reusables for Every Day of Your Period
Let's break down all the different products we carry and help you find the one that suits you best! Read more...
Making Bad Art Is An Act Of Resistance And Self-Care
Making Bad Art Is An Act Of Resistance And Self-Care
It's time to bust out the art supplies. Let's make some art. Read more...
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Self-Care for Abortion
Looking for ways to support yourself through an abortion experience or want to care for a friend or loved one? This guide to self-care for abortion offers ideas and tools for... Read more...
Your Period on Stress
Your Period on Stress
Feeling stressed recently? You're not alone. We brought in an expert to answer some questions about how stress can impact your menstrual cycle. Read more...
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Hormones Do What?: How Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Impacts the Menstrual Cycle
In this post, we cover some of the common questions that people have about HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and the menstrual cycle, including information about both feminizing and masculinizing hormones. Read more...
Period Pleasure: A Bloody Masturbation Guide
Period Pleasure: A Bloody Masturbation Guide
Some suggestions for tapping into your own form of period pleasure. Read more...
Cheap and Easy Quarantine Friendly Recipes
Cheap and Easy Quarantine Friendly Recipes
We’ve compiled a list of recipes that are sure to keep you nourished and satisfied during this time with a focus on common ingredients that you likely already have on... Read more...
Period Self-Care for Weird and Stressful Times
Period Self-Care for Weird and Stressful Times
So it’s incredibly frustrating that a lot of us are still having to deal with periods while everything is so weird and stressful out in the world right now. That said, your period... Read more...
I'm Practising Social Distancing, WYD?
I'm Practising Social Distancing, WYD?
Staying at home and away from friends and family can pose some unique challenges. Read more...
Why Are We Still Fighting Getting Older?
Why Are We Still Fighting Getting Older?
Getting older might change our bodies or the way we look, but it gives us a whole lot more than it takes away. Read more...
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UTIs and Periods
Just. The. Worst. Let's get that infection gone. Read more...
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Growing Pains: Learning to Love Your Vulva
Love your vulv. Read more...
Self-Care For The Best. Autumn. Ever.
Self-Care For The Best. Autumn. Ever.
Here’s six ways to you can take care of yourself as we approach the winter season.  Read more...
Mental Health and Your Period
Mental Health and Your Period
Sadness, frustration, and anger are emotions we typically associate with hormonal fluctuations both before and during menstruation, but what if you also have mental illness to contend with on top... Read more...
Period Tracking Apps and Your Privacy
Period Tracking Apps and Your Privacy
Everything you need to know about protecting your privacy and data when using period tracking apps. Read more...
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"But I Don't Bleed!" Honoring Your Cycles For People Without Uteruses
Not everyone has a menstrual cycle - but we're all living cyclical lives. Read more...
How Reusables Solve Your Period Problems
How Reusables Solve Your Period Problems
With 20 billion pads and tampons going to landfill every year, getting your period to go zero waste is an easy way to make a big impact. That said -... Read more...
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Heavy Periods Were Ruining My Life — And I Should Have Seen My Doctor Way Sooner
"I thought the bloody monsoon was something I’d always have to deal with; not normal for most people, but normal for me." Read more...
How To Have A Transformative Winter Solstice
How To Have A Transformative Winter Solstice
'Tis the season for self-care. Read more...
Bloody Moves: Dancing in My Lunapads on My Period
Bloody Moves: Dancing in My Lunapads on My Period
Let Arielle Egozi explain how you are your most beautiful self on your period. Read more...
5 Ways To Get Better Sleep On Your Period
5 Ways To Get Better Sleep On Your Period
Does your period steal your much needed sleep? Take a nap. Then take action.  Read more...
How I Plan To Raise A Body Positive Black Daughter
How I Plan To Raise A Body Positive Black Daughter
Being body positive in the face of anti-Blackness is hard - because you have to confront your own demons first.  Read more...
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Period Headaches: How To Make Them Go Away
Your period can come with some unpleasant side effects - including debilitating headaches. Read more...
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Seven Ways Reusable Menstrual Products Can Make You Feel Better About Things
Reusables can make you feel better in both body and mind. Read more...
Owning Your Space: Self Love As An Act of Resistance
Owning Your Space: Self Love As An Act of Resistance
The intersections of racism and sexism fuel body shame. Our guest blogger unpacks all of this nonsense - and makes a powerful case for self love as an act of... Read more...
Six Ways To Ditch Period Pain, Naturally
Six Ways To Ditch Period Pain, Naturally
Period getting you down? Here's six ways to to push back on the PMS - naturally. Read more...
Pleasure: From Selfish, to Sex, to Self-Care
Pleasure: From Selfish, to Sex, to Self-Care
Body positivity is the root of finding pleasure in your body. (Yes, that includes orgasms.) Read more...
In Praise of Boring Self Care
In Praise of Boring Self Care
Self care. These two words have become synonymous with massages, vacation, and any number of expensive luxuries. And I get it! 2017 was a tough year, and 2018 promises to... Read more...
A Few Tips On Taking Care of Yourself Over The Holidays
A Few Tips On Taking Care of Yourself Over The Holidays
As the holidays ramp up, so do stress levels. Between packed schedules, holiday expenses, organizing everyone for festive feasts and just dealing with snow, storms and traffic, it’s enough to... Read more...
Vulvas: A User's Guide
Vulvas: A User's Guide
Here at Lunapads, we're all about getting to know your body, since knowledge is power! We're asking our friend Kristen Gilbert, Director of Education at Options for Sexual Health, to... Read more...