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Send us Fan Mail September is Suicide Prevention month. Monique Barbieri joins Bianca this week to talk about suicide, mental health and community support. Both Monique and Bianca lost their dads to death by suicide and they share their stories with openness and humor, their journey through grief and rage and the gifts that they found through the healing process.  8 PMADs Myths we need to bust! -...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Bianca is joined by Amy C. Willis and Michelle Cruz to talk about a hidden source of rage for many folks who identify as women: the neglected need of choosing you. As women, we are socialized to always be of service to others and to leave ourselves last, which of course leads to burnout, depression and can even drive some to the trenches of addiction and suicide. B...

Send us Fan Mail During this week’s episode Amy C Willis from Hol+Well joins us to talk about the ways that, as women, we have been systematically programmed to disconnect from our anger. We will explore the importance of reconnecting to our rage, move it through our bodies, complete the cycle, and harness the gifts and change it can bring to our lives. Hol+Well Rage Becomes Her By Soraya Chemaly...

Send us Fan Mail Marissa Bolaños joins us today to talk about birth in Latin America, women’s movements and creating change through rage. La Revolución del Parto History of midwifery in Mexico (in Spanish) Jats’uts Meyah documentary about the last midwife of a Mayan community in Southern Mexico (not the one mentioned in the podcast, but a similar one) Gloria Lamey rogue midwife in Canada OBGYNs wh...

Send us Fan Mail Bianca Sprague, Meg Kant, and Michelle Cruz talk about the work of bebo mia in reproductive justice and how birth work is activism, influenced by many other forms of social justice, and how we weave it all together. Bebo Mia Birth Worker Business School Bliss Retreat Affiliate Program Stay tuned for the full season in September, subscribe to receive updates here ! Get the  The Evi...