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Every Phase: The Art Series Born From 17 Years of Endometriosis, Medical Gaslighting & Living the Truth

For 17 years I was dismissed, medicated, and handed false answers by a system that was never built with my body in mind.

So I stopped waiting for permission to heal and started living the art instead.

Every Phase is a 13-year art series (2021–2033) documenting my healing from endometriosis in real time — one piece per hormonal phase, one truth at a time. Each work reveals what's happening in the brain and body during that phase, and what becomes possible when you stop fighting your cycle and start moving with it.

Medical gaslighting is not a metaphor. It is a structural reality — built into a research framework that excluded women's bodies from clinical trials because the 28-day infradian rhythm was considered a "complication."

We were the complication.

I decided to stop trying to fit my biology into a man's world — and start living in full alignment with it instead.

Every Phase is the record of that decision. One piece per phase. One truth at a time. Thirteen years.

I am making videos of select pieces of this series, but for the full Every Phase journey and the newest releases, Subscribe to join my 13-year visual art journey

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I am actually living the art, so the series is about waayyyyy more than just healing. The writing and art discuss truth, freedom & our current financial & healthcare system slavery–and the way out. By subscribing, you will be the first to receive the monthly seasonal art piece of the current phase, the first to know about my upcoming shows, shop all of my collections early, and I write a badass email.

✅CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

00:43 Medical Gaslighting w/ Endometriosis

03:40 Why it is biologically a 'man's world'

05:25 This Every Phase Series

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Meredith Ochoa

Meredith Ochoa is ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST—a former ballerina turned mixed media artist, author, photographer, and generational cycle-breaker who turned 17 years of excruciating endometriosis into a revolutionary body of healing artwork.

Her journey started in the shadows—recovering from an eating disorder, building pinhole cameras by hand, and falling in love with the alchemy of the darkroom. When digital photography took over, she challenged the movement by turning a scanner into a large-format camera—flattening depth to make the subject the negative. This integration of old‑world photography principles with new‑world tech became her signature technique, and the way she started revealing the stories our bodies keep.

But it wasn’t until she experienced a series of near-death menstrual experiences that the real unraveling began. After years of being dismissed by doctors, pumped with medications, hormones, and told “it’s all in your head,” Meredith took her healing into her own hands—she studied the infradian rhythm, dismantled medical lies, and healed herself of a disease the system said was incurable.

That liberation sparked Every Phase—a 13‑year art project (2021‑2033) creating a piece for every hormonal phase—Follicular, Ovulatory, Luteal & Menstrual.
The series is a moving blueprint for anyone learning to alchemize biology into fuel and biohack with art, whether their battle is endo or a heartbreak no scan can see.

Her work wages a visual war on medical gaslighting, inviting viewers to face their own contradictions: shadow and light, pain and power. Each piece is a mirror—and a key—for anyone told “it’s all in your head.”

Why does she make art?
Because images can slip past the gatekeepers of logic and land directly in the bloodstream.
Because authenticity is the first medicine.
Because living a lie almost killed her—and creation keeps her honest.
Because pain is power waiting to be translated, if you’re willing to face your shit.