Category: Women’s Physiology, Anatomy & Cycles

Evidence-informed knowledge of the female body — from anatomy to hormones, menstrual cycles, and the foundations of women’s health.

Into 2026

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 22, 2025

From creative practice to Creative Authority: how the Creative Women’s Association moved from grassroots creativity to national workforce reform in just three months, reshaping how Australia recognises creative labour, women’s work, and economic value.

Tags Applied Creative Intelligence, Arts & Provenance, Certification, creative authority, Creative Health, Creative Trades, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, provenance, Social Prescribing, Soft Infrastructure, Soft Systems Design, Women’s Economic Participation, Women’s Health, Workforce Reform

Creative Health Isn’t a Side Project.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 18, 2025

Creative health is not a small-grants sector — it is a missing economy. When women are supported to sustain caregiving and skilled creative labour through proper workforce infrastructure, billions in lost productivity and preventative health value can be unlocked.

Tags Arts Definition, Creative Economy, Creative Practice, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Industries, Cultural Infrastructure, Cultural Labour, Economic Policy, Gender Equity, Practice vs Performance, provenance, Skill & Output, Skills & Certification, Textiles & Craft, Trades & Craft

Art, Expression & Therapeutic Practices Creative Health & Wellbeing Creative Survival Creativity Gut Health, Microbiome & Women's Wellbeing Health In Real Life | IRL. Movement, Somatics & Body Awareness Science & Research Smart News Social Prescribing, Creative Health & Community Care Sound, Voice & Music in Health The Architecture of Women's Health The Power Source: Women’s Mental, Sexual & Creative Health The Reading Shelf Wellness Women's Physiology, Anatomy & Cycles

The Body Isn’t Modular. It’s Musical.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 12, 2025

The gut and lungs aren’t separate systems — they’re in constant biochemical conversation.

As Dr. Vivek Lal and resbiotic remind us, when one is disrupted, the other follows. But at CWA, we’ve long stopped looking at the body as isolated organs — or even duos.

The real conversation includes the vagus nerve, the nervous system, and the stress circuits that shape how we breathe, digest, and create.
Women experience up to 76% more total stress burden than men — and it shows up biologically.
Not because women are weaker — but because the system asks us to carry more.

The solution isn’t self-regulation.
It’s system redesign.

Tags ArtAndScience, CreativeEconomy, CreativeHealth, CreativeMedicine, CreativeWomensAssociation, CWAAuthority, CWARealNews, GutLungAxis, HeartRateVariability, NervousSystemHealth, Neurobiology, Resbiotic, SocialPrescribing, SystemChange, VagusNerve, VivekLal, WomenInScience, WomenLeadingChange

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Stress-Load Cardiomyopathy

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 5, 2025

Takotsubo—“stress-load” cardiomyopathy—proves that overload is physiological, not poetic. When 80–90 % of cases occur in women who carry most unpaid work, the cure isn’t self-help; it’s systemic balance. Honour, in scripture and science, was never meant to look like exhaustion.

Tags 1 Peter 3 : 7, cardiac rehabilitation, Creative Women’s Association, emotional labour, gender economics, Health Equity, modern theology., stress-induced cardiomyopathy, structural medicine, Takotsubo syndrome, women’s cardiovascular health

Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power Women's Physiology, Anatomy & Cycles

Biology’s Biggest Bill

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

Born female? Prepare to pay the price. From lost wages to unpaid labour, biology handed women the ability to create life — society turned it into a lifelong economic penalty. The numbers don’t lie — but they do demand change

Creative Health & Wellbeing Women's Physiology, Anatomy & Cycles

The Shut Down Is Physiological

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

The shutdown is real — women’s nervous systems break down under constant stress, and society still expects them to smile through it. Here’s why that ends now.

Tags CWA Lens, Female Health Advocacy, Female Physiology, Gendered Health Systems, Hormonal Health, Mental Load, Nervous System Burnout, Systemic Stress, Women’s Burnout, Women’s Health

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Women’s Physiology

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

Medical research has historically underrepresented female physiology, leading to gaps in understanding. Addressing this disparity is crucial for developing effective treatments and improving women’s health outcomes.

Tags Clinical Trials, CWA Lens, Female Physiology, Gender Disparities in Medicine, Health Equity, Inclusive Research, Medical Research Bias, Personalized Medicine, Women's Health Advocacy, Women's Health.