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Connective Truth is an education and advocacy initiative of The Moore Family Charitable Foundation. It helps girls recognize lipedema when it first develops and prepares the adults around them, from families and pediatricians to school nurses, coaches and teachers, to offer support. After a girl recognizes it, Connective Truth helps her find people who understand and the words to make sense of her body.

ABOUT

Our Mission

Connective Truth is an education and advocacy initiative of The Moore Family Charitable Foundation. It helps girls recognize lipedema when it first develops and prepares the adults around them, from families and pediatricians to school nurses, coaches and teachers, to offer support. After a girl recognizes it, Connective Truth helps her find people who understand and the words to make sense of her body.

An estimated 1 in 9 women, about 400 million worldwide, has lipedema. It commonly begins around puberty, yet both its research and its support community are devoted almost entirely to older women.
An estimated 1 in 9 women, about 400 million worldwide, has lipedema. It commonly begins around puberty, yet both its research and its support community are devoted almost entirely to older women.
An estimated 1 in 9 women, about 400 million worldwide, has lipedema. It commonly begins around puberty, yet both its research and its support community are devoted almost entirely to older women.
Lipedema is a painful, often progressive disease of the connective tissue, and to most people it looks like ordinary fat.
Lipedema is a painful, often progressive disease of the connective tissue, and to most people it looks like ordinary fat.
Lipedema is a painful, often progressive disease of the connective tissue, and to most people it looks like ordinary fat.
Those years without an answer can cause significant harm to a girl’s mental and physical health. Lipedema fat resists diet and exercise, so when her body does not change the way she expects, she may blame herself and learn to distrust and, ultimately, block out what she feels.
Those years without an answer can cause significant harm to a girl’s mental and physical health. Lipedema fat resists diet and exercise, so when her body does not change the way she expects, she may blame herself and learn to distrust and, ultimately, block out what she feels.
Those years without an answer can cause significant harm to a girl’s mental and physical health. Lipedema fat resists diet and exercise, so when her body does not change the way she expects, she may blame herself and learn to distrust and, ultimately, block out what she feels.

Connective Truth starts with the doctor’s office, the gym class and the kitchen table where a girl’s changing body first gets explained, because the explanation she hears first may be the one she keeps.

Before a girl can seek care for lipedema, she has to recognize that she might have it. Connective Truth starts there, because no clinic can help a girl who never thinks to ask about lipedema.

Our Vision

The Connective Truth

Why it Gets Missed

Core Anchors

How does it all connect?

What's the defining moment behind this focus?

Why avoid the word “awareness”?

You call the delay the injury. What do you mean?

Why is it hardest for girls, rather than grown women?

What messages delay recognition?

What is Connective Truth doing differently?

What's the biggest misconception about lipedema?

Connective Truth provides education and advocacy support and does not offer medical diagnosis or treatment.

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