~ Early Web Links ~

Crayon Hydra is the personal blog of a system living with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and vaginismus, sharing their lived experiences to raise awareness and combat stigma around these conditions. Written with honesty and care, the site offers insight into coping strategies, therapy experiences, and the day-to-day realities of plural living.

Rachel Tan's unapologetically Autistic blog challenges neuronormativity with a punk attitude, offering personal reflections on forging your own path outside neurotypical expectations. Based in Singapore, Rachel writes for Autistic punks, rebels, and misfits who refuse to mask or conform.

A moody, atmospheric personal site hosted on Neocities where the owner explores their inner world without censorship, including discussions of depression and intrusive thoughts. The gothic woodland aesthetic and content warnings signal a deeply personal space built around mental health experiences.

A curated directory of professional associations and organizations in holistic and naturopathic medicine, hosted by a clinic in Evergreen, Colorado. Visitors will find links to bodies like the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, homeopathy centers, chiropractic associations, and environmental medicine groups across North America and Europe.

PawPawResearch.com compiles research by botanist Dr. Jerry McLaughlin on the paw paw plant and its powerful acetogenins, with a focus on their potential to fight cancer cells and drug-resistant tumors. Visitors will find articles, studies, video presentations, and FAQs covering everything from how paw paw works at a cellular level to comparisons with graviola and other alternative treatments.

Gynopedia is an open-source wiki providing city-by-city guides to sexual, reproductive, and women's health care resources around the world, from birth control and abortion access to LGBTQ-friendly gynecologists. Built entirely through community contributions, it offers stigma-free, practical information for travelers, expats, and locals navigating healthcare in cities like New York, Bangkok, and Lima.

Darren Singleton, a self-described blogger, runner, and procrastinator from Lancashire, England, documents his fitness journey with run logs, weigh-ins, and personal challenges including half marathons. The site covers a wide range of personal topics from music and books to gardening and finances, but running and fitness clearly dominate the content.

A mirror of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, founded by the late herbalist Michael Moore, this site is a massive archive of medicinal plant knowledge including photographs, illustrations, materia medica, herb manuals, folios, and digitized historical texts like the complete US Dispensatory 20th Edition. Visitors will find an extraordinary depth of botanical reference material spanning decades of Moore's teaching, with genus-indexed plant photos, video clips, color illustrations, and extensive lecture notes on clinical and constitutional herbalism.

Botanical.com hosts the full electronic version of 'A Modern Herbal' by Maud Grieve, a landmark 1931 reference covering medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and economic properties of over 800 herbs and plants. One of the oldest herbal resources on the web, active since 1995, it includes a plant index, recipe index, poisons guide, and columns from herbalism writers.

A Year of HYPERLIVING is a year-long personal challenge blog where the author set weekly goals to rebuild self-understanding, form better habits, and figure out their future. The project spans 23 weeks of documented activities covering biking, writing, sleep, struggles, and self-improvement experiments.