Test Champion User Journey - 1 Aug

Period shaming has been around for about as long as periods have. That’s to say, forever. It’s only been in recent years that women have decided enough is enough and fought back against the menstruation stigma. Still, there are so many ways in which each of us is shamed for bleeding every month and it can be a challenge to know what to do about it. While those of us in developed countries like the United States and Canada are not using bits of old mattresses to control our flow or dropping out of school because we don’t have access to restrooms, we’re still faced with being told that our periods are dirty and shameful, having our emotions invalidated because we’re bleeding, and resorting to covert, FBI-like operations to get into the bathroom to change our tampons. In order to end the taboo and shut down period shaming, we all have to take action - and take it now. Here are some ways you can put an end to period shaming. ENCOURAGE GIRLS TO TALK ABOUT THEIR PERIODS OPENLY. LEARN MORE ABOUT MENSTRUATION AND PMS. DITCH THE EUPHEMISMISTIC VOCABULARY WHEN ADDRESSING GIRLS ON THEIR PERIODS. BE MORE KIND IF YOU NOTICE ANY LEAKS AND OTHER MENSTRUATION MISHAPS.

There is an enormous amount of pressure on women to look a certain way, thanks in no small part to the way marketing and advertising has portrayed them over the years. As a result, many women have an unjustifiably low opinion of the way they look. In one way, the digital age has opened us up to another world, created jobs we never knew could exist and connected people, the world over. These days, social media is doing more harm than good with young men and women becoming increasingly insecure due to unrealistic beauty ideals. In reality, a perfect body does not exist. An immense amount of planning, makeup and photo editing went into the final Instagram picture she posted. It's designed to sell a product, not support a healthy lifestyle. This leads to low self-esteem and negative thinking towards food, lofe and everythin else. It is incredibly important to teach young women that social media is not real life.