Diet Coke, peanut butter and jelly, and diet pills were Gail's introduction to an eating disorder. Twenty years later, after two friends pointed her problem out to her, she started down a road to recovery and found a path to advocacy.
Instead of slowing down when she hit the half-century mark, Missy started singing the aging blues to other women feeling her pain. Now her 5-woman, 3-man cabaret band, The Bats, is giving women in their Golden Years something to laugh about.
Debra was thrilled that menopause meant the end of her monthly cycle, but she didn't know she had to go through something called perimenopause first. After four years of letting nature run its course, she had a hysterectomy, and got her life...
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An episode of Oprah during a quick at-home lunch break introduced Yolantha to a thing called psychological abuse. Just days later, she experienced first-hand how it can turn into physical abuse when her husband wrapped his hands around her neck.