Series Index: Women’s Health for the Long Run
This post is a little different from what I usually write here. It is a short note to set the stage for a specific series I’m publishing alongside Between Selves, called “Women’s Health for the Long Run.”
Between Selves will continue to be about identity, transition, patterns we inherit, and the internal work of becoming. That isn’t changing. This series lives alongside that work, not in place of it.
Women’s Health for the Long Run is a short, finite series inside Between Selves. Each post in this series will be titled Women’s Health for the Long Run: followed by its specific focus, so they’re easy to recognize and return to.
This series focuses on women’s health through the lens of hormonal health and the shifts that begin in midlife, including perimenopause and the symptoms many women experience long before anything is formally diagnosed. It’s about how those hormonal changes intersect with metabolism, cardiovascular risk, bone density, brain health, sex health, energy, and weight; and how little guidance most women receive while trying to make sense of it.
What I’m sharing here comes from what I’ve learned and lived through years of personal investigation, careful listening to experts, and access to conversations and spaces many women don’t typically get into. I’m deeply aware that this access is a privilege, and I’m grateful for it. Sharing what I’ve learned is one way of not keeping that knowledge to myself.
These posts aren’t medical advice and they aren’t comprehensive. They reflect a mix of lived experience, careful listening to experts, and what I’ve learned through reading, research, and conversation.
If you’re looking for the personal context behind why I’m writing this series, start here:
Context / Bridge
→ I Was Told I Was Fine
Posts will be published over a concentrated period and added here as they go live.
xoxo💋
Paola
Between Selves is a personal publication about identity, transition, and the space between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming. Women’s Health for the Long Run is one inquiry within that larger work.