It all made sense why about three days a month I genuinely believe everyone is talking badly about me, that no one likes me, or that I am annoying everyone

Keywords: awareness, cycle, disability, Emotional, Everyone Hates Me, Experience, Hormones, menstral, PMDD, PMDDawareness, PMS, Symptoms, women

It’s also to blame for sometimes being sure the friends I have only pretend to be my friends. I am so hard on myself and legitimately think I cannot do anything right, my irritability would add to that thinking, so I would get irritated and on-edge. Unfortunately, sometimes it goes deeper than irritability and lack of confidence, this is when my most intense and anxious thoughts are constant. It is when I imagine my life without the people I love or I ask the horrific question: would I be missed if I was gone? 

https://lifebetweenthelines725.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/pmdd-journey

[DearDamsels knows that] it’s all too common for women to feel like their voices aren’t worth anything, so we always want to offer opportunities for women to have their voices heard and their stories told — it’s why we describe DD as your words, your stories, your collective

Bridie Wilkinson, Co-founder (left)

Bridie works in content at a charity and writes sporadically. She shares her name with the Gaelic patron saint of fire and poetry and, conversely, a type of meat pie. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @bridifer.

Abby Parsons, Co-founder (right)

Abby has been editing unputdownable books since 2014 and became a freelance editor in 2019. She loves helping writers tell their stories and occasionally writes some of her own. Find her on Twitter @abby_aap and Instagram @abbyaap.

 

https://deardamsels.com/about

Be the Perfect Lady or be Just You?

Keywords: health, lifestyle

Don’t be too pretty, people will think you are out of their league,
Don’t be too ugly, no one will see you indeed.
Don’t be too kind, people will walk all over you,
Don’t be too mean, people won’t walk anywhere near you.
Don’t be too intelligent, people will feel threatened by you,
Don’t be too dumb, you’ll be threatened by others, it’s true.
Don’t be too intuitive, people will think you’re woo-woo.
Don’t be too naive, others will see right through you.

https://lifestylecollective.org/2020/03/23/why-be-the-perfect-little-lady-when-you-can-be-just-you

Most moms who give the random unsolicited advice have good intentions and mean no harm

Keywords: tea time

You can rather listen brush it off or you may just learn something. I remember the first year of parenting I’d take whatever adult conversation I could get seeing that most of my time was spent juggling my final year of college while pumping around the clock. I think we all can agree that that there’s no wrong and right. Its all trial and error but there is light at the end of the tunnel. My only advice to pass along is for when your time comes as the mom with the advice don’t drop to many gems at once.

https://therealmomtea.com/2020/02/25/unsolicited