You may have never heard of an exercise physiologist, but they are increasingly becoming a popular and essential part of an optimal health and fitness regime. According to NSW Health, exercise physiologists are “university-qualified allied health professionals who prescribe, deliver, and adapt movement, physical activity, and exercise-based interventions to facilitate and optimise health status, function,…
Of all the types of pregnancy loss, Termination For Medical Reasons (TFMR) is one of the least talked about, understood or supported types of loss and the only one to come with the unique and specific mix of horror, judgment and silence.
For three years now I’ve been wearing a ring on the fourth finger of my right hand. It’s rose gold with diamonds encircling a large oval aquamarine. At the time, I chose the water-like stone simply because it’s my birthstone and I loved the pale blue colour.
My partner asked me the other night if I love his son. The question stung, both because he felt he needed to ask, and also because I understood why he did.
“I need sex” are not the words I would expect to hear from my 56-year old facialist after she utters my name. “How are you?” is more inline with what I had anticipated her saying but, in that moment, I really wished she’d just said, “Can we reschedule?” The fact that I am lying half-naked…
Dining alone in Italy can sometimes be viewed in the same way as drinking a cappuccino after 11:30 a.m.; some strange and horrifying tourist affliction. I’m not talking about grabbing a quick bite at a café, but sitting down to a leisurely meal. What started out as a necessity — when I first moved to…
Usually I would prefer to get any sort of medical attention in a country whose health system I have experience with. I would have waited until I returned to the United States, but as I was in Italy for eight months and started a series of vaccine shots just as I left Los Angeles, two…
It wasn’t until I saw a limo get stuck at the entrance to a strip mall that I really felt I was back in Los Angeles. Its midsection was too long and low for the concrete camel-hump of the driveway, so there it lay like a beached white whale. When I noticed the driver was…
I don’t know about you, but I rarely see my friends. At least, not the ones who live in the same city as me. I used to see one of my good friends all the time when she lived in New York and came to Los Angeles on business, but now that she lives here…
Ok, so you’re a tourist. It’s best you accept that you will immediately look like a straniera (“foreigner”) either by the way you are dressed or the guide books and cameras weighing you down, but this does not mean that you have to have the same run-of-the-mill experience as most tourists. Just because you are…