Feeling dismissed or overlooked in medical settings isn’t uncommon during perimenopause and beyond. Here’s how shifting the focus back to listening, clarity, and collaboration can improve the experience.
Category: Chronic Disease Considerations
Voices With Vigor: Trauma Redefined
In a world where trauma often goes unrecognized or misunderstood, these three remarkable women create awareness, healing, and transformative change. Join us for our March shows!
Why Your Medication List Is Often Wrong
Electronic medical records were supposed to solve a simple problem: Keep important clinical information accurate, current, and accessible. Here’s a behind-the-scenes explanation of why something so essential is so often wrong.
Keeping it Real: A Candid Conversation on Caregiving, Connection, and Presence
Navigating guilt, exhaustion, and the hardest decisions we make for the people we love. Go behind the scenes in this candid conversation with Gina Anderson, PhD on the Voices With Vigor “Caregiver Collaborator” series.
Mindset Matters in Young-Onset Parkinson’s
Sara Whittingham, MD is a U.S. Air Force (ret) flight surgeon and anesthesiologist, Parkinson’s patient, and advocate. She’s on a mission to help patients, veterans and medical professionals across the country. Access the free on-demand video replay of our intimate, powerful conversation.
Hormones, Then & Now
A preamble and link to Katelyn Jetelina’s article, “Beyond the black box: What women deserve to know about menopause hormone therapy.”
Voices With Vigor: Caregiver Collaborators
If you’ve ever felt the profound responsibility of caring for another human being, these stories will resonate deeply. Come prepared to feel… and to heal at Voices With Vigor’s December shows.
How To Swallow A Pill
EXCERPT: As people age, there are many factors that can lead to the esophagus not working well––it is a muscular tube, and many things impact muscular function. So, if a pill is “not going down,” it can actually get stuck and cause a lot of problems.