IUDs can be life-changing — but the reality is that not everyone’s experience looks the same. For some, it brings relief from heavy periods and peace of mind around birth control. For others, it’s marked by pain, complications, or feeling dismissed by providers.

I think in the future, there's so much hope for women with endo.

Pain: we’ve all felt it, but most of us have no idea how it actually works, especially when it’s chronic or linked to conditions like endometriosis. Here’s a hint: pain isn’t always about ‘damage.’ In fact, your brain has a starring role.

For a long time, I thought movement had to look a certain way to “count.”

My story begins from as young as 9 or 10. I recall coming home from school and just collapsing from back pain, wondering why no one else was as fatigued as I was.

I do this for every woman and person who's been told their pain is "normal,"

I only started learning about endo because someone told me their story.
Now, I want to be that person for someone else.

In 2017, my life began to fall apart. Every month, for nearly two weeks, I was no longer myself. I battled suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, depression, and overwhelming fatigue. It wasn’t ‘just PMS.’ It was PMDD — a life-threatening condition I didn’t even know existed.

So many people assumed I was choosing to go abroad for a vacation rather than a life-changing and necessary surgery. People kept referring to it as ‘exciting’ and a ‘holiday’—but this wasn’t something I wanted to do for fun. I was forced into it. The system left me no other choice. It wasn’t a vacation—it was survival.

I kept asking: Why do we have wearables for everything else—heart, lungs, brain—but not for something as fundamental as the menstrual cycle?

Endometriosis has shaped my journey in ways I never expected, but it will never define me.

People often ask me how I came up with the name This Won’t End Me, and to be honest, it wasn’t some perfectly planned-out branding moment. It came from a place of survival.