Health Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/aacolumns/health/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Sun, 15 May 2022 17:25:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-World-Moms-Network-Logo-512-125x125.jpg Health Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/aacolumns/health/ 32 32 My Roe v Wade Story https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-roe-v-wade-story https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/#comments Mon, 16 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37994 Here we are again, still fighting for abortion rights. Roe v Wade I wasn’t sure I wanted to write about this but I can’t keep silent. Women have been fighting for rights of every kind for as long as we’ve been alive. I, personally, have attended the Women’s March and protests against separating children from […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/feed/ 4 Screen Time And Pandemics: We Need Flexibility https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=screen-time-pandemic-flexibility https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:49:33 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37462 Today is the last day of “ski break” on my side of the world. Our school has an annual week-long recess on Washington’s Birthday, and the students like to call it “ski break”. This ski break was especially long for us: due to a COVID-19 outbreak at my 4-year-old’s day care center, we had to […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/feed/ 1 GUEST POST: New Territory [Albania] https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guest-post-new-territory-albania https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:10:35 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37913 Today’s post comes to World Moms Network by Lura Elezi of Albania. Lura is an activist, mother, writer and thinker. The piece below first appeared on Lura’s personal blog, Lara, Lara! in April 2020. It is a reflection of a similar time in a different place when a young Lura Elezi was also fleeing from pending […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/feed/ 1 Real People of Ukraine https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=real-people-of-ukraine https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37867 This is the second installment in our multi-post series about real people of Ukraine as observed by our contriutor, Loren Braunohler. Loren is a former US diplomat who, until recently, was posted with her family in Kyiv, Ukraine. You can read the first installment here. Ksenia and Alex These are my friends Ksenia and Alex. […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/feed/ 1 Parental Burnout: Getting Help to Get better https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/23/parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/23/parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37680 “I can’t do it anymore!” I said it. It was not easy but I needed to let emotions go and tell the truth. I didn’t know it but I had hit parental burnout. It did not come out of nowhere but I had kept the situation at a distance for some time. I did not want to show my […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/23/parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better/feed/ 10 A Writer’s Plight: Get Writing! https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/12/a-writers-plight-get-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-writers-plight-get-writing https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/12/a-writers-plight-get-writing/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:46:55 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37479 “SOMETHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING BADLY” The Plight of Perfectionism Yes, you read that right: “Something WORTH doing is worth doing BADLY.” When I first read that sentence in an email from one of my mentors, I thought that he had made a typo. Surely anything worth doing is worth doing WELL I thought. […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/12/a-writers-plight-get-writing/feed/ 1 Sustainable Development Goal #3: Let’s Keep HUMANITY Alive https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/09/27/sdg3-lets-keep-humanity-alive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sdg3-lets-keep-humanity-alive https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/09/27/sdg3-lets-keep-humanity-alive/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:01:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37408 I underwent breast surgery last Monday and, as a mother of four, aged 12 to 2, I was terrified. Terrified not to be able to make it, terrified to be left with terrible injuries, terrified of being left with a disability. This terror was because I live in one of the poorest countries of the […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/09/27/sdg3-lets-keep-humanity-alive/feed/ 1 Wonder Basket: Sustainable Cooking From The Heart Of Africa https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/08/24/wonder-basket-sustainable-cooking-idea-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wonder-basket-sustainable-cooking-idea-africa https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/08/24/wonder-basket-sustainable-cooking-idea-africa/#respond Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:57:54 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37044 Food. No matter what is going on all around us, we need food. Too often lack of food is what is going on in certain parts of the world, while where there is plenty, we might enjoy a morsel on our own or with our neighbors, family, or friends. I would like to ask you: […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/08/24/wonder-basket-sustainable-cooking-idea-africa/feed/ 0 Alcohol Addiction: Swimming To The Surface https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/07/16/alcohol-addiction-swimming-to-the-surface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alcohol-addiction-swimming-to-the-surface https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/07/16/alcohol-addiction-swimming-to-the-surface/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:43:07 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=36932 Two heavy blankets are on top of me. I am shivering so hard that my teeth are chattering but I’m also sweating so profusely that I look as if I’ve been standing in a rainstorm. My hands shake, my legs twitch, I pull my legs up under me and then I stretch them out, ball […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/07/16/alcohol-addiction-swimming-to-the-surface/feed/ 3 Choosing Wellness and Going with the Flow https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/07/01/choosing-wellness-and-going-with-the-flow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=choosing-wellness-and-going-with-the-flow https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/07/01/choosing-wellness-and-going-with-the-flow/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:32:07 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=36717 Truth is, if you had told me a few months ago that I would be writing a health and wellness story right now, I would have answered you with a great big “Srsly? Well, here I am, seriously writing that health and wellness story. I spent most of 2020 quarantined at home with my family […]

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