Stories
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
Catalogue
- Books
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood / Lucy Jones.
Jones, Lucy (Journalist)Date: 2023- Books
Giving birth : emotions in childbirth / Sheila Kitzinger.
Kitzinger, SheilaDate: 1979- Books
Motherhood reimagined : when becoming a mother doesn't go as planned : a memoir / Sarah Kowalski.
Kowalski, SarahDate: [2017]- Books
Help, comfort and hope after losing your baby in pregnancy or the first year / Hannah Lothrop.
Lothrop, Hannah, 1945-Date: 1999- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Abortion counselling - including psychological effects
Date: 1976 - 2002Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/3/6Part of: Family Planning Association