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28/05/2026

May 28th, marks the International Day of Action for Women’s Health.

Since 1987, activists, healthcare workers, feminists, and communities around the world have come together to remind us that women’s health is not optional, secondary, or something to be negotiated away in times of crisis.

Access to healthcare, reproductive healthcare, accurate information, bodily autonomy, safety, and dignity are fundamental human rights.

Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (SRHRJ) means that sexual and reproductive health rights, information, and services must be accessible to everyone, free from barriers, discrimination, coercion, violence, and stigma. This becomes even more critical in times of crisis, where inequality and exclusion deepen further.

This year’s theme, “Essential, Not Optional”, feels especially important in a world facing overlapping crises, from war and displacement to climate change, rising inequality, political extremism, and cuts to healthcare systems. These realities do not affect everyone equally. Women, girls, and marginalised communities are often impacted first and hardest.

No one should be denied healthcare because they cannot afford it.

No one should face stigma, coercion, violence, or discrimination when seeking care.

And no one should be pushed into poverty simply to access essential health services.

Women’s health is not a luxury. Rights are not optional.

25/05/2026

Play, joy, and love are biological necessities. 🧬

The emerging science of epigenetics shows that your environment, your emotions, and your relationships can switch genes on and off, regulating everything from inflammation to immune function to how fast you age.

Your nervous system was designed for love and belonging, and when you deprive it of that, everything downstream suffers — your hormones, your immunity, your brain, your longevity.

Think of joy, connection, and play as part of your health stack; just as essential as what you eat, how you move, and how you sleep.

So laugh more, love deeply, and stop treating joy like something you have to earn after all the “real” health stuff is done.

It IS the real health stuff.

25/05/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/nicolearzt/p/in-therapy-there-is-always-stuckness?r=iz3zh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

23/05/2026

A selection from my personal collection.

Why does patriarchy persist?

The Backlash
against women.

The Female Brain
is Fed Up
of being Invisible Women.

The Silent Female Scream
is crying out
for The Healing Connection.

Somewhere between all of that, many women are still trying to find themselves underneath the roles, expectations, emotional labour, silence, pleasing, shrinking, coping, carrying, and surviving.

These books aren’t just books.
They are conversations about what women have known in their bodies for generations.

And maybe part of healing begins when women stop asking:
“What’s wrong with me?”
and start asking:
“What happened to us?”



How would you order these book titles into a meaningful sentence?

Or show a selection from your own bookshelf.

Please share in the comments below.

19/05/2026

Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK may have officially passed, but conversations about mental health are needed far beyond one week in May.

This year’s themes:
“Take Action” (UK)
and
“More Good Days Together” (Mental Health America)

both remind us that mental health is not just an individual issue.
It is relational.
Social.
Collective.

Sometimes “taking action” is not dramatic.

It might look like:
• reaching out instead of withdrawing
• asking for support
• attending therapy
• resting without guilt
• setting boundaries
• checking in on someone
• being honest about how things really are

And sometimes a “good day” is not an amazing day.
Sometimes it is simply a day that feels a little lighter, calmer, safer, softer, or less lonely than before.

Healing and support rarely happen in complete isolation.

We create more good days together.

💚

07/05/2026

Head on over to my website, link in bio, to read my new blog post, it’s waiting for you!

We often talk about grief as something connected to death. Something expected. Something we may, at least in part, prepare ourselves for.

But some losses do not arrive gently.

They interrupt.
They destabilise.
They alter the shape of everyday life in ways that can feel impossible to explain to someone who has not lived it themselves.

Grief and the nervous system are deeply connected in ways many people do not fully realise.

07/05/2026

My latest blog post is waiting for a read!

Grief and the nervous system are deeply connected. Explore how sudden loss, trauma, heartbreak, and emotional overwhelm can affect the brain, body, memory, and sense of safety.

06/05/2026

World Maternal Mental Health Day | May 6, 2026
Marching for Mothers

There’s a lot of noise around motherhood.
Advice. Expectations. Pressure to cope.

But underneath that, there are many women quietly struggling.

In many countries, as many as 1 in 5 new mothers experiences some type of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMADs). These illnesses frequently go unnoticed and untreated, often with tragic and long-term consequences to both mother and child.

And the wider picture matters too:
• 7 in 10 women hide or downplay their symptoms
• 1 in 10 dads develop depression during this time
• 20–25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth

Not because people don’t want help.
Because they don’t always feel able to ask.

Maternal mental health isn’t rare.
It isn’t a weakness.
And it doesn’t look the same for everyone.

It can show up during pregnancy.
After birth.
Or months later, when everyone else has moved on.

This year’s theme, Marching for Mothers, is about more than awareness.
It’s about changing how we respond.

• asking her how she really is
• listening without fixing or judging
• recognising distress instead of dismissing it
• remembering that partners struggle too
• understanding that grief, loss, and trauma are part of many maternal stories

Because supporting mothers supports families.
And ultimately, it shapes the wellbeing of the next generation.

No one is immune.
But no one should have to go through it alone.

06/05/2026

This is not about saying all men are dangerous.

It is about acknowledging that many women move through the world carrying an awareness that violence, harassment, intimidation, coercion, assault, or fear are not rare possibilities. They are lived realities.

Women are taught to check the back seat of the car.
To message when they get home safely.
To hold keys between fingers.
To avoid certain streets.
To stay alert.
To not “provoke.”
To be careful who they trust.
To calculate risk constantly.

And yet when women speak openly about that fear, they are often called dramatic, paranoid, bitter, hostile, or unfair.

Fear does not appear out of nowhere.
It is shaped by experience, stories, statistics, culture, and survival.

At weRcurious, I think these conversations matter.
Not to create division.
But to create honesty.

Because minimising women’s fear has never made women safer.