The Comfort of Spirituality
Anna-Marie's Endometriosis Story This collaborative art project closes with Anna-Marie, photographed by Phoebe Wingrove in deep, striking purple, a colour Anna-Marie chose herself and one that carries its own deliberate meaning. Where Christie's red spoke to anger and blood, Sandy's blue to grief and depth, and Rowan's nude and [...]
A Balled Up Mess of Flesh and Blood
Rowan's Endometriosis Story There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being in pain no one else can see, hear, or verify. It is a loneliness that has nothing to do with how many people are in the room, and everything to do with how far [...]
My Body Is an Archive of Loss
Sandy's Endometriosis Story Endometriosis is often described in statistics: one in ten women of reproductive age worldwide, an average diagnostic delay measured in years rather than months, a condition that shapes fertility, careers, and relationships long before most people have heard its name. What statistics cannot capture is [...]
The Hidden Mental Health Crisis of Endometriosis
Endometriosis is not just a pain condition. It is a psychological one. The part we do not talk about enough When endometriosis enters clinical and public conversation, the focus tends to land in predictable places. Pain. Fertility. Surgical intervention. These are important. They are not the whole picture. [...]
Endometriosis Awareness Month: Why We Show Up, And Why Accuracy Matters
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, a time when patients, clinicians, researchers, and advocates intensify efforts to improve understanding of a complex, full-body chronic inflammatory disease that continues to be misunderstood, underfunded, and frequently minimised. At Endometriosis South Coast, Awareness Month is not about visibility for its own sake. It is [...]
This International Women’s Day: Believe Women’s Pain
On this International Women’s Day, we want to talk about something simple but powerful: Believe women when they say they are in pain. Women live on average live longer than men, but live on average 4 years longer in ill health. Across the world, millions of women live with long-term [...]
