Whose Body Is It

Unlock exclusive content and support the Whose Body Is It Podcast 1:1 Guidance with Isabella Malbin Growing up in England immersed in second-wave feminism, and later climate crisis narratives, overpopulation fears, and media portrayals of birth as traumatic and dangerous, Lucy absorbed the idea that motherhood was a low-status path — something she would never want for herself. Underneath those sto...

Unlock Isabella's life update for only $6 ✦✦✦ In 2022, Mary Lou Singleton and I released an episode titled: What will happen to women if medical abortion is criminalized? We discussed medical totalitarianism, snitch culture post 2020, period tracking apps, state surveillance of women’s menstrual cycles throughout history, forced abortions, the harms of pharmaceutical contraception and the diff...

Elizabeth quietly shaped underground unassisted birth communities not to build a brand or make money, but to help women heal their trauma. Long before social media exploded, Elizabeth warned women about the risks of joining unassisted birth groups online, even as she worked within underground networks to educate women about birth. We explore the oxymoron of selling free birth, why some women succe...

In this episode Laura Shanley shares the deeply personal journey that led her to write Unassisted Childbirth -originally titled  The Joy of Childbirth- a book published in 1994 that has since found its way into over 1,000 libraries worldwide. Long before “free birth” was a movement or an identity, Laura was navigating the path of unassisted childbirth largely alone— choosing unassisted birth for h...

Freya Kellet—once deeply immersed in free birth society ideology —gradually reshaped her beliefs through working with women and during her pregnancy and birth of her son. Feeling the pressure of the invisible “judgment day” of whether her birth would be “successful,” she faced the emotional weight of being publicly vocal about free birth while privately navigating uncertainty. As she made peace wi...

Days before teaching her women and girls safeguarding class, Amy Sousa was given a stage-three breast cancer diagnosis . Suddenly confronted with the very realities she had long analyzed, Amy found herself facing the possibility of losing a breast and being urged toward a radical double mastectomy . Amy details why she refused, what her independent research revealed about treatment statistics most...

As a Creighton-trained OBGYN and surgeon, Dr. Naomi Whittaker didn’t enter this field because she liked what she saw — she wanted to change it. Her personal story runs very deep: her grandmother died after a C-section in communist Poland, and decades later, Dr. Whittaker found herself confronted with the same unnecessary major abdominal surgery. We discuss the epigenetic roots of endometriosis , t...

Michigan-based female physiologist Sarah shares her journey from being a proudly non-monogamous, sex-positive liberal feminist to a woman reclaiming her body , fertility, and longing for motherhood. Raised by a single mother who helped shape her world view, she built her trauma healing practice based on an ideology that promised freedom but instead delivered disconnection — from men who truly resp...

What does liberation feel like in the body and how do we know when we’ve mistaken violence or an ideology for freedom? In this episode, Tara Rae Behr shares her journey from an evangelical upbringing , where purity culture and child rearing looked like spanking and lots of shame, to almost leaving psychotherapy to pursue a career in “conscious sex work.” Like many women disentangling themselves fr...

What happens when your conscience and your religion are at war from the time you’re born? In this episode, author of Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims , Yasmine Mohammed shares her harrowing story of growing up under the weight of religious indoctrination. From being told by her mother to promise she would kill non-believers, to being fed what she calls a “diet of Jew hatred,” Yasmin...

Dr. Tal Croitoru, is one of the only mental health professionals in Israel speaking out about the harms of transgender ideology. Tal, like many others, was sold on the idea that "trans" was simply a continuation of LGB and wouldn't stand a chance making it as an ideology in Israel, due to the religious population that generally values family, tradition, which on the surface seems inc...

⁠ ⁠♡ Support the podcast by becoming a paid Substack subscriber →⁠ ⁠ In this episode with Mary Lou Singleton, we explore her lifelong call to serve women in birth, and how she witnessed midwifery shift from an intuitive, woman-centered craft into a standardized profession shaped by regulation and Science™-driven conformity. We unpack the tensions between medicalized midwifery and the rise of free...

⁠⁠ ⁠♡ Support the podcast by becoming a paid Substack subscriber →⁠ ⁠⁠ Dipiti is back to discuss our top 12 red flags to look out for before joining an in-person or online women's community. Want more? Be sure to check out the bonus content available here to Whose Body Is It paid Substack subscribers. Included in the *Bonus Convo* Dipiti's intentions for joining BDSM communities Isabella’s...

⁠⁠ ⁠♡ Support the podcast by becoming a paid Substack subscriber →⁠ ⁠⁠ Today's guest, Kimberly Ann Johnson author of the best selling book The Fourth Trimester, works at the intersection of sex, birth, and trauma. Kimberly entered menopause in 2020 and, just as she had with postpartum and motherhood, began to explore this unique phase of female mammalian life with curiosity and spiritual sensi...

⁠⁠ ⁠♡ Support the podcast by becoming a paid Substack subscriber →⁠ ⁠⁠ At 21, Emily was sure that by getting married and having kids she would more or less wind up living happily ever after. However, her relationship replicated some of her core wounds around growing up in a coercive control environment, and where talks around money were taboo. Emily wanted to leave her marriage, but all she had to...

Natasha Vargas was a journalist, union organizer and classic leftist when she took on the topic of gender ideology. A beat reporter for Out, Jezebel, Vice (among many other leftist publications) she even sympathetically covered the entree of Fallon Fox into women’s MMA (he is the trans-identified male who would later become known for splitting lesbian fighter Tamikka Brents’ skull open). Through h...

In today's episode I speak with my friend Daniella Saar about the terrors of October 7th, the rise in global anti-semitism including the riots on college campuses, the reality of sharing borders with enemy states and the ethical concerns of awarding a so-called "Palestinian Journalist" for photographing murdered Israeli woman, Shani Louk, as her lifeless body was driven to Gaza by Hamas terrorists...

My dear friend Danielle Evans is back again, this time to talk about body hair through the lens of her expertise in nervous system body work. While it may be true that there are more urgent battles than armpit hair, this conversation goes so far beyond surface level talk on self-acceptance and trash talking modern beauty standards. We explore women's desire to remain intact and fully expressed in...

Cesareans, breastfeeding struggles, neonatal intensive care, childhood illnesses and daycare have become the norm. The truth is, physiological birth is simpler in our 20s and postpartum care comes with the energy and adventurousness of youth and often the help of grandparents. As a culture we’ve focused solely on the advantages of putting off childbirth until a woman is financially stable, fixed i...

Today's guest is N3VLYNNN; a multidisciplinary artist, wellness practitioner, and dancer. While working in urban, "progressive" cities, N3VLYNNN was drawn to “queer” art and politics, but it wasn’t long before she began to see things that well, seemed a little weird. For one thing, a man, over six feet tall, who called himself a woman, sexually assaulted her friend. Well before the peak of gender...

Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult Many of you probably remember Leigh Janet Marshall’s story of childhood trans identification, followed by sterilization and detransition. Leigh is back today for an update on her journey since her appearance on the podcast nearly one year ago. After the recording, Leigh was met with both heroism and villainization. Peers claimed that she had weaponized her expe...

Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult When nine-year-old Elle found out she was going to be a big sister, she was overjoyed. She helped raise her younger brother and as they grew up, she was happy to act as a support, confidante, and the first-call-in-a-crisis. But when she became pregnant, her brother’s attitude toward his sister changed completely. He never acknowledged her daughter, never wanted...

It’s not exactly Millennials' fault that many of us are stuck in extended adolescence. We’re bearing a wound around adulthood that didn’t start with our generation. We’re working under fluorescent lighting instead of under the sun, hustling in the city instead of in the small tribes we evolved from, and striving for the “empowerment” the Spice Girls promised. Endocrine disruptors surround us....

Know in 4 hrs: Decide whether or not to freeze your eggs, do IVF or surrogacy Kristin Hauser joins us today to talk about cultivating female fertility outside of the medical model. She has been working in the fertility space for over ten years, as an acupuncturist and sex and relationship coach. Kristin has seen all manner of fertility issues, from women later in their fertile years, who’ve been w...

Know in 4 hrs: Decide whether or not to freeze your eggs, do IVF or surrogacy Diagnosed with endometriosis at age 19, Marche was told she would probably never have babies. It was the early 2000s, post women’s liberation and even when Marche found herself expectedly pregnant she considered termination. Before she could decide what she wanted to do, Marche was incorrectly diagnosed with a blighted o...