Clarksville Family Magazine — July 2015
The July 2015 Clarksville Family Magazine demystifies a royal-linked condition, tries barre fitness, and speaks candidly about living with bipolar disorder.
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“HG: Not Just a Royal Condition” opened the issue by shedding light on hyperemesis gravidarum, the severe pregnancy illness that drew public attention through a royal pregnancy — giving local mothers information and validation about a condition often dismissed as ordinary morning sickness.
“Having Hope, Having Bipolar” offered a candid, compassionate look at living with bipolar disorder, the kind of honest mental-health storytelling that reduces stigma and helps readers feel less alone. On the fitness side, “What Is Barre Fitness?” introduced the ballet-inspired workout, while “When Drugs Deplete Nutrients” and “Your Family Health Tree” gave readers practical tools for understanding their medications and inherited health risks. A feature on the arts rounded things out.
The recurring departments round out a July number distinguished by its candor about health, especially the kind that often goes unspoken — making a subtle argument that health is never just physical, and that talking openly about the hard parts is itself a form of care.
“HG: Not Just a Royal Condition” put a local face on a diagnosis the public had come to recognize largely through Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who spoke openly about the severe pregnancy illness during both of her pregnancies. Clarksville's Kelly Pitts, an administrative assistant for the Education Opportunity Center at Austin Peay State University, had lived through the same hyperemesis gravidarum during her first pregnancy — a condition, the feature made clear, far beyond ordinary morning sickness.
Table of Contents
- HG: Not Just a Royal Condition (p. 6)
- Lines, Wrinkles and Folds, Oh (p. 12)
- What is Barre Fitness? (p. 18)
- When Drugs Deplete Nutrients (p. 24)
- Having Hope, Having Bipolar (p. 26)
- Your Family Health Tree (p. 34)
- Things You Should Learn by (p. 35)
- The Arts (p. 36)
- Summer Days (p. 46)
Regular Departments
- Giving Back (p. 20)
- Advice (p. 40)
- Campbell Families (p. 49)
- Family (p. 50)
- The Fridge (p. 62)
