In this episode, Fempower Health introduces the new women’s health book, Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Better Health. Here, we interview co-authors Mary O’Connor and Kanwal L. Haq about the book. They also discuss important women’s health topics and research today.

Taking Care of You is a book for everyday women. It’s a simplified, comprehensive health guide written by women, for women. It explores health conditions that affect women differently than men, and offers practical resources for women of all ages, races, and walks of life.

More than 100 female physicians, women’s health experts, and specialists across the country collaborated on this publication so that women everywhere can become more empowered in their own health.

Taking Care of You comes out on October 4, 2022. You can buy a copy at most major retail stores.

Discussed in this episode:

• How women can leverage the book, Taking Care of You
• The current state of women’s healthcare and how it got this way
• Why have women been excluded from clinical research until recently?
• Advocating for shared decision-making in women’s medicine
• The fragmentation of the healthcare system and what to do about it
• Practical things women in under-served populations can do for their health
• Coming up with solutions in women’s health communities
• Google-searching symptoms, health anxiety, and preparing for doctors’ visits
• Acknowledging self diagnosis and patient fears
• Improving provider-to-patient communication 

“This book includes what we’ve seen and experienced firsthand. When you get angry enough, you want to change things. This book is our way of putting something forward to help empower women and change the trajectory of women’s health.” - Kanwal L. Haq, M.S.

Related to this episode:

• Learn about other Breaking Taboos topics
• Listen to Episode: Women’s Health After Roe v Wade Overturn
• Watch: Mary O’Connor TEDx Talk: Promoting Health - Your Secret Superpower
• Review More Resources from Taking Care of You
• Check out Movement is Life Caucus
• Follow on Instagram: @womenshealthbook or Facebook: @womenshealthbook or Linked In: Taking Care of You

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