Coming Up!
June 6-7, 2025
Columbia, Missouri
Foster the Call Conferene
Forum Christian Church
PMDD Awareness Table
June 11-13, 2025
NAMICon Virtual Conference
Christina Bohn Foundation
Virtual Exhibitor Booth
June 14, 2025
East St. Louis, IL
Community Baby Shower
PMDD Awareness Booth
July 17, 2025
Columbia, MO
Missouri Suicide Prevention Conference
PMDD Awareness Booth
August 27, 2025
Jefferson City, MO
Missouri State Employees Charitable Campaign Kick-off PMDD Awareness Booth
October 4, 2025
Twin Lakes Recreation Area
Columbia, MO
Christina Bohn Memorial 5K for PMDD Awareness
November 2-3, 2025
Missouri School Counselor Association Fall Conference
Osage Beach
PMDD Awareness Booth
2025
January 18, 2025
We met Joel Geisz at a friend's birthday party. He shared with us that he added Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) to his curriculum at the high school where he teaches. He heard about Christina and PMDD from our friend who knew Christina.
Joel said, "Christina's story resonated with me. I am married and have four daughters (and a son) and hearing that PMDD can be so disruptive, even to the point of suicide, was disturbing. I teach anatomy & physiology as well as medical terminology to high school students. My classes generally are populated by girls more than boys. So, I have a platform and an audience for at least bringing PMDD to the attention of a population of girls (and boys who may be boyfriends, future husbands, and fathers)." Click here to read Joel's full story.
Joel has been sharing Christina's story and raising awareness of PMDD for the past three years! We gave Joel 600 PMDD information cards to share with his students. Thank you Joel for helping raise awareness of PMDD!
January 27, 2025
Gave a private PMDD presentation over Zoom.
February 26, 2025
Participated in a crisis intervention focus group for Washington University and discussed PMDD.
April 17, 2025
Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Business in Motion Expo – PMDD awareness booth
April 24, 2025
Marybeth was invited to share Christina's story and speak about PMDD at Rachel Lynn Fox's book launch on Roosevelt Island, New York. Rachel's book, From Cursed to Cured, discusses how to treat PMDD naturally.
May 3, 2025
Christina Bohn Foundation received a sponsorship from Madam Nselaa Ward, CEO of Ni' Nava & Associates. Marybeth was invited to speak and share Christina's story and talk about PMDD and the foundation.
We also participated in a networking event to teach others about PMDD and how to recognize it.
2024
February 13, 2024
Philantropic Education Organization (POE) Meeting
Columbia, Missouri
March 8, 2024
Kyndryl US Leadership Development Team - PMDD Presentation
March 27, 2024
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Prevention in Focus Webinar - "Is it more than PMS? Learn about PMDD."
Sandi MacDonald, co-founder and executive director for IAPMD, and
Marybeth Bohn, vice president of the Board of Directors for IAPMD
Four hundred registered for this webinar, which is posted online at https://prevention.nih.gov/education-training/prevention-focus-webinars/it-more-pms-learn-about-pmdd and on YouTube.
April 27, 2024
University of Missouri, University Hospital Light Up
In honor of Christina and PMD Rememberance Day
June 6, 2024
The Problem with Perfect Podcast with host Robin May – “The Cost of Suffering from PMDD: A Mother’s Story of Her Daughter’s Struggle” – posted June 11, 2024
June 15, 2024
Maternal Outcomes Matter Shower (MOMS) Event
East St. Louis, Illinois – PMDD awareness table
July 2, 2024
Tampa Bay Times article by Lauren Peace, “It’s not just PMS: For some, periods come with severe mental health effects” – Christina is discussed in the section “Suicide risk and treatment.”
July 3, 2024
KFF Health News article by Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times, “Beyond PMD: A Poorly Understood Disorder Means Periods of Despair for Some Women” – Christina is discussed in the section “Suicide risk and treatment.”
July 13, 2024
MOMS Event, Missouri Gateway Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ Headquarters Nazareth Temple, St. Louis – PMDD awareness table
July 20, 2024
Community Day
North County Police Cooperative St. Louis
PMDD awareness booth
August 3, 2024
REST Outreach Ministry Community Carnival, Hillsdale, Missouri
PMDD Booth
September 1, 2024 and September 9, 2024
Private Zoom meetings with parents about PMDD
September 28, 2024
Organized Christina Bohn Memorial 5k for PMDD Awareness
September 28, 2024
Dinner and Fireside Chat
Post-5K Gathering for women with PMDD and healthcare professionals and educators at the Bohn’s home
October 1, 2024
Invited to post an article about PMDD in the Kyndryl Global Social Impact Community.
October 2, 2024
University of Missouri, University Hospital Light Up​
In honor of Christina and Missouri PMDD Awareness Day
October 9, 2024
Received certificate of incorporation from the State of Missouri approving the organization of the Christina Bohn Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the purpose to raise awareness of and provide education surrounding women's mental health and menstrual health issues, and suicide prevention.
October 19-20, 2024
Yale University, Students with Psychosis Conference
Parents Panel (we spoke about menstrual psychosis) and Poster Presentation
October 24, 2024
Private Zoom call with mother of daughter who died by suicide due to having PMDD
November 21, 2024
Is It More than PMS? Learn about PMDD
Article written by Marybeth Bohn for the Trail Sisters website, https://trailsisters.net/2024/11/21/is-it-more-than-pms-learn-about-pmdd/
2023
March 19, 2023
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Fireside - Lehi, Utah
March 21, 2023
Missouri State Capitol, Missouri House of Representatives
Testified before the Healthcare Reform Committee regarding Christina’s Bill 885 – PMDD Awareness
April 26, 2023
Christina's story was featured at the PMDD Awareness Event, Seneda Cymru Welsh Parliament, Cardiff Bay, Wales, UK
April 28-29, 2023
Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale University
Session: Premenstrual Disorders – Connect the Dots Between Hormones and Mental Health
Poster Session: Premenstrual Disorders, PMDD
May 2, 2023
KOMU News Report, “A great liar and a great thief: Senate bill would create a day for PMDD Awareness”
June 27, 2023
Virtual presentation for Texas Friends
July 1, 2023
Maternal Outcomes Matter Shower (MOMS)
East St. Louis, Illinois
September 19, 2023
IMPACT Rotary Club Meeting, Columbia, Missouri
October 2, 2023
Met with Material Mortality Review Board
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
October 2, 2023
Missouri State Capitol
PMDD Awareness Day Event
October 5, 2023
KOMU News, “Invisible for too long: How one woman inspired nation’s first PMDD Awareness Day”
October 13, 2023
Interviewed by Kate Basi
author of local Catholic Newsletter
October 25, 2023
Kyndryl Costa Rica Women's Organization - PMDD Presentation
December 29, 2023
Missouri Department of Corrections
Presentation for Morgan Yarnell, Manager
Trauma Informed Transformation for Offenders
2021-2022
November 11, 2021
Included PMDD information cards in Christina's funeral program and sent programs to many who could not attend the funeral in person.
January 19, 2022
Brigham Young University, College of Nursing
PMDD Podcast
March 7, 2022
University of Missouri, School of Nursing Faculty Meeting
April 13, 2022
University of Missouri Health Care Virtual Lunch & Learn
April 22, 2022
University of Missouri, School of Nursing Gynecology Class
June 26, 2022
Postpartum Support International
Climb Out of the Darkness Community Walk
Stephens Lake Park
June 26, 2022
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Women's Mental Health Fireside
July 5, 2022
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Meeting with area church leaders, Blanding, Utah
August 24, 2022
Interview with the Washington Post for article about PMDD: “Their PMS mood swings were terrible. It was actually PMDD”
Christina and “Christina’s Questions” are discussed near the end of the article.
September 12, 2022
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Meeting
Broadway Christian Church, Columbia, MO
October 13, 2022
Advanced Practice Assessment and Skills Workshop Nurse Practitioner Conference, University of Missouri School of Nursing
November 1, 2022
Virtual private PMDD presentation for Patty Lewis (D-Kansas City), member of the Missouri House of Representatives, and her legislative assistant Jacob Bauer
November 7, 2022
Columbia Public Schools
Counselors Meeting, Field Elementary School
November 14, 2022
Virtual presentation for the Anxiety & Depression Clinic of Columbia
This clinic would like to be the PMDD hub in Columbia.
December 20, 2022
Private presentation for Ann Juengermann, Director
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri
Missouri Orthopaedic Institute
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Joel Geisz's PMDD Advocacy
January 28, 2025
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I learned of Christina's story shortly after her passing in 2021. My wife (Patti) and I met Greg and Susan Renoe in Galena, Illinois for a little getaway in mid-November, just a couple of weeks after Christina passed away. Susan shared her story with us while it was still very raw and painful.
Christina's story resonated with me. I am married and have four daughters (and a son) and hearing that PMDD can be so disruptive, even to the point of suicide, was disturbing. I teach anatomy & physiology as well as medical terminology to high school students. My classes generally are populated by girls more than boys. So, I have a platform and an audience for at least bringing PMDD to the attention of a population of girls (and boys who may be boyfriends, future husbands, and fathers).
Upon returning from our trip, I updated my notes in medicalterminology for the reproductive system chapter in the section where we were going over terms for disorders and diagnostic terms relating to the female reproductive system. PMDD is mentioned in our book, but very briefly along with PMS and various other menstrual irregularities (dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, menorrhagia, etc).
I added a bit of information to the slides I present about PMDD. More importantly, when I reach the slide about PMDD I tell Christina's story. Her story resonates with my students and they often have questions related to why nobody figured out what was going on before it was too late. I try to make the point that her story could have turned out differently with a quicker diagnosis and treatment plan but that would require healthcare professionals to be aware that this is even a diagnosis. I have also begun to include Christina's story in my anatomy & physiology classes since that gives me an even wider audience.
While I do not know of any girls who have sought treatment or have self-identified as having PMDD, I am hopeful that having at least heard of it once in their life, maybe it will be the difference-maker for some of my students in the future.
