What is…?

A life chapter is the transition you're living through right now. GRRRLHOOD is built around six of them:

• Moving Abroad — starting over in a new country.
• Career Pivot — changing what you do, or walking away from it.
• Healing — recovering from a loss, a breakup, burnout, or a hard season.
• Motherhood — the whole arc from trying, to pregnancy, to raising kids.
• My Changing Mindset — rebuilding how you see yourself and what you'll accept.
• Building My Own Chapter — creating something of your own: a business, a project, a new life.

You can be in more than one at once. Your chapters drive who you're matched with and what shows up in your feed.

GRRRLHOOD doesn't mark a chapter "done" — it tracks where you are inside it, in three stages:

• Just starting — at the very beginning of this chapter.
• In the thick of it — right in the middle.
• Through it — you've come out the other side.

Reaching "through it" is what completing a chapter means. You set your stage with a quick check-in and can update it whenever things shift. It's also used to pay experience forward: a woman who's through a chapter is shown posts from women just starting the same one.

The feed is your home screen — a stream of posts from other women in the community. It's personalised to your chapters: posts that fit where you are in life surface earlier and more often.

Every top-level post carries one or more chapter hashtags (like #healing or #moving_abroad), seeded from the author's chapters and what the post is about. Your feed then ranks posts by a blend of three things:

• How fresh the post is,
• How well it fits your chapters — both the post's content and the author's own chapters, and
• A pay-it-forward boost that lifts posts from women just starting a chapter you've already been through.

Change your chapters and the feed changes with you on the next load. You also steer it directly: "Not for me" on any post hides it and quietly shows you less content like it (see below).

Reactions are the ways to respond to a post — love, support, celebrate, strength, and relate. They're all positive; there is no downvote or dislike anywhere in GRRRLHOOD.

"Not for me" is a private signal, not a downvote. Tap it on a post and two things happen: that post disappears from your feed, and the feed shows you less content like it. It works on the post's content, not the whole chapter — marking one motherhood post "not for me" won't wipe motherhood from your feed, it only tunes what shows up within it. The author is never told.

Karma is a count of the reactions your posts have received over time. It's private to you — only you can see your own karma. It's never shown on your posts or profile to anyone else, so there's no public score to compare between members.

A community (we also call them circles) is a shared group space built around a chapter, an interest, or a city. Like everything in the app, communities are screenshot-protected: what's said inside can't be grabbed and pasted elsewhere.

There are two kinds. Open communities are discoverable from the Circles tab — you browse them and join the ones that fit. Private communities don't appear in any list: you join one only with its invite code.

Inside a community, whoever runs it can manage members, set the group's name, photo and description, and choose whether a new member sees the history from before she arrived.

Once a week, GRRRLHOOD brings you up to five women walking a chapter like yours — no swiping, no endless scroll. A match only becomes real when both women accept, so no one lands in your inbox uninvited, and you can unmatch at any time.

Instead of a bare percentage, a potential match shows you what you actually share, ranked by how much it matters:

• The same life chapter first — the strongest signal,
• then the specific situation within it (the sub-chapter you both picked),
• your city and country, and
• if you're both moving abroad, the new language you'll be learning.

The more of these line up, the higher the compatibility. You see it as a tier that names what connects you, rather than a raw number.