Dr Tamara Griffin

V! a Love Letter to Every Woman and Girl Dr Tamara Griffin

Our society is afraid of the woman's body! We feel the need to stigmatize, label and degrade it. As a result, women have developed an unhealthy relationship with their bodies. This unhealthy relationship has caused women to unnecessarily place themselves at risk for reproductive health conditions, sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, and other unintended consequences of the failure to love their bodies. The really unfortunate part about all this is that women did not have a truly authentic, unapologetic resource to address this dissociation until now. V! is a love letter written to women and girls everywhere celebrating all the wonderfully amazing things about our beautiful bodies, some of which your mother never told you - well unless you had a mother like mine! While I am certainly not the first person to write a book on vulvovaginal health, I am the first to write about how our vulvovaginal health is tied to every dimension (mental, emotional, spiritual, financial, social, biochemical, energetical, institutional, legal, political, physical) of our life. Hopefully this book will challenge you to learn new information and ideals, to make different choices, to ask probing questions, and to take steps to fully understanding, celebrating, honoring and embracing your body, your V! V! was written to break the cycle of negative, unhealthy intergenerational patterns that have been passed down from great-grandma, to grandma, to mom and to daughters. V! was written to address and dispel all the unhealthy and negative societal messages that women and girls have received about our bodies over the years. Finally, V! was written to create a healthy self-esteem and sex-esteem; and to give women permission to unapologetically own our bodies!