Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

A common operation that can bring relief, and a lot of questions. What a hysterectomy is really like, the different types, reco...

From the shock of diagnosis to treatment and life afterward. What people who have faced breast cancer want others to know, in t...

The years of being told it was normal, pain that doesn't match the scan, what a laparoscopy settles and doesn't, the hormonal t...

PCOS affects around one in ten women and is widely misunderstood. An honest companion to living with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

Far more people go through IVF than ever talk about it, and it can be lonely. An honest companion to fertility treatment — the ...

The years before periods stop, the brain fog women take personally, what the guidance on HRT actually says now, and the symptom...