Why women’s Health Blogs – Adventures In The Blogsphere

Writing, as a treatment, is as old as the ink itself. Understanded everywhere as a transformation process, the simple act of inserting a pen into a page can jump and start personal growth and healing. Over the years I have spent more than a dozen hours on the couch, sorting out the goods I have built, bought, borrowed and inherited during my 48 years. Without exception, each qualified physician has suggested the following recommendations: start and keep a daily journal. It seems that great frustration and anxiety can be resolved with pen and paper. However for reasons that can only be described as part of ‘my personal preference,’ my journal retention will begin and expire at the time of recording. However, I knew that the writing process was strong despite my inability to be consistent. At one point, after being able to hold my nose in a 13-week milling process, I skipped tall buildings built with an artist's design and descended on the other side, with renewed energy and good paid work. Despite my success, however, I soon stopped writing my thoughts on paper. Miraculously, last spring, the writing of my whole life evoked by clicking a computer button. As simple as one, two, three, I started my own online journal, better known as a blog. A blog is a web log that covers a series of posts, about the author's choice of title, from expert to personal. All entries have a date and time to stamp as they are published, giving the essentials a sense of traditional diary. The blog process is very simple and free for anyone with computer access. I write down my thoughts, press and publish to convert and soon my raves will be live on the World Wide Web. No moderator, web host, publisher or editor can be found. Blog post control, speed and frequency are in the hands of the blogger. However, there is one encouraging difference that differs between your hard copy hidden diary, under the bed, and your blog. Blogging provides potential audiences. My first thought was to use the blog to share the extraordinary journey of my Girl Calendar life and draw attention to the Breast of Canada project. It did not take long to realize that following the fans was a huge noise, which put a lot of energy into the endless process of making, marketing and distributing 3000 calendars every year. My second blog took the alarm format providing some breast-related news that was a simple product of my publisher role. The number of the third blog was born due to the memory associated with menstruation and hair loss. It is affectionately called ‘My Blog Over Time, How To Sign Out of Life Time,’ This effort really fits into the medical writing model and contributes greatly to my state of mind. Writing in public about my depression, in real time, is like inviting dozens of postmenopausal women for tea and heart-to-heart talk. Not surprisingly, the growing silence surrounding menopause, and the talk above ‘Relaxing’ has a profound effect on female readers. I took a photo of the waist and a funny bone, shared my treatment results, a change in attitude and my belief that menstruation is not a disease. Thinking expands with each entry; self-confidence grows as understanding and a relaxed sense of aging develop. My menopause blog is like a red tent online for anyone interested in singing about growing up. Finally, curiosity leads to online surveys of blogs, blog rolls and search engines to see if other women are writing about their lives, health and wellness. It turns out that they are. Thousands of blogs written by young mothers, newly divorced, empty nests, menopause survivors, cancer survivors, home stay parents, clinical depression and curiosity. Photos uploaded. Advice is sought. Social media is collected in the form of comments that the reader leaves as an online hug. There are many connections made between people who are separated by the world, but connected by circumstances. Smart blog names are common for blog owners. Ellie at This is My Body, This is My Blood offers a fun window to her pre-menstrual sympathy party. ‘I’m Out of Estrogen and Not Good’ offers a window on Victoria’s menopause. A group blog I have met with disregard for claims: “Managing this blog is about 50,000 cheaper than a good therapist.” This new blog kid follows blogger code of conduct that creates a safe, inspiring and friendly environment where you can. allow yourself to relax, to be a sound person. Not everyone writes as an expert, although there are some excellent bloggers who lead the parade of many readers. Countless groups of like-minded, diverse people come together and share the Blogosphere. My biggest benefit to blogging comes from my daily commitment to writing just as psychologists suggest. I wipe my head, straighten my hormone-depleted emotions, rejoice and remind myself that life is changing. Indeed, the cyber trail recordings of my mood swings of menopause are a time-stamped proof.