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In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on Episodes on systemic responses to trauma in domestic violence - Episode 38: Dr. Tanja Jovanovic on how witnessing abuse is just as bad for children as being abused, Episode 39: Trauma therapist Julia Hochstadt on working with survivors of abuse and violence, and Episode 40: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on domestic violence, trauma, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection.

Teri and Michael co-host the en(gender)ed reflections episodes which serve to help curate a series of past episodes, usually around a specific theme. We hope these episodes help listeners coming in at that point of the podcast identify particular episodes and themes that they may want to explore. During our reflection, we talked about these additional resources:

• Rockland County, NY measles outbreak
• "How Orthodox Jewish Nurses Are Fighting 'Anti-Vaccination Propaganda' Targeting Their Community" in Gothamist
• "Most Dangerous Time for Battered Women? When They Leave" in the Clarion Ledger
• The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode on coercive control
• The origins of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and the connection between child sexual abuse and obesity
• The benefits of breastfeeding

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On this episode of engendered, our guest is Nicole Perry, a Registered psychologist with a practice in Edmonton, Canada. For the past ten years, she has worked with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and uses an approach called Somatic Experiencing, a body-based therapy, for healing trauma. She is known for her work as a "feminist counselor" and helps her clients work on setting boundaries, seeing problems within their context and making healthier decisions in their lives. We speak with Nicole about how her feminist, collaborative approach is used to help both her survivor and non-survivor clients.

During our conversation, we talked about these additional resources:

• Tom Digby's book, Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance and our conversation with Tom
• Peter Levine's book, Healing Trauma about his work on somatic experiencing
• Jaclyn Friedman's book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
• Video of women apologizing to men

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Georgie Barden, a 20 year veteran of the biopharma industry consultant specializing in process organization, change management. Georgie started Fertility 4 me in 2019 in response to her eight and a half year struggle with infertility and her passion to fix broken processes. Our conversation with Georgie rounds out our first series on body literacy and addresses the importance of understanding one's fertility as a form of women's empowerment and reproductive choice and freedom and the importance of food literacy as part of managing one's fertility. We will also examine the various ways in which reproductive freedom intersects with class and privilege and how access to these choice differ for women.

During our conversation, we talked about these additional resources:

• How your gluten allergy may be due to pesticide poisoning
• Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
• The gender pain gap and the diagnosis and treatment of women's pain disorders
• The non-profit RESOLVE, a national infertility association
• Georgia's "Heartbeat" Abortion Bill and the trapdoor it has for fertility treatments
• Multiple embryo insertions by fertility doctors such as for the Octomom
• Letter to Governor Cuomo details reasons for opposition to a NYS Bill legalizing commercial reproductive surrogacy
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine and its Ethics Committee Opinions
• The home fertility test you can take through Modern Fertility

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Our guest today is Professor Spring Cooper, a social researcher with academic expertise in public health, health promotion, sexuality. Professor Cooper's PhD focused on the sexual health education implications of menstrual attitudes and knowledge among women of varying socio-economic status in the United States. Her current research interests are in adolescent sexual health, adolescent and online and offline social networks, health promotion, health communication and prevention of diseases through behavior change and vaccination. We will be speaking with Professor Cooper about all of these topics, especially as it relates to students that she works currently works with at the City University of New York, in addition, we will be speaking about her podcast, the Sex Wrap, the podcast that covers everything you are too afraid to ask at home, too embarrassed to ask at school or was just too hard to ask a partner. Professor Cooper will also share her thoughts about the NYS revenge porn law which comes at the heels of NYC's law, passed in 2018.

• The Healthy CUNY Initiative
• The Report on student health at CUNY
• Professor Emma Tsui's research on intimate partner violence among undergraduate women in an urban commuter college
• The definition of sexual agency
• "Enough is Enough" NYS law on campus sexual assault
• CUNY's Sexual Violence Campus Climate Survey

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Amanda Laird, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist™ and host of the Heavy Flow Podcast – a weekly podcast dedicated to periods, reproductive health and other taboo health and wellness topics. Amanda is also the author of Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation. We will be speaking with Amanda today about her podcast and book and how casting our current policy responses to menstruation as human rights violations, and an essential part of our efforts to shift societal norms around women's bodies, health, and ultimately, our freedom and equality.

During our conversation, Amanda and I referenced the following topics:

• The history of Toxic Shock Syndrome
• How black women's pain are minimized by the medical profession
• Racial bias in medical care
• What Serena Williams's scary childbirth story says about medical treatment of black women
• A story on the Rupi Kaur Instagram menstrual photo deletions
• Kiran Gandhi's post on why she ran the marathon on her period without a tampon
• Chris Bobel on "period poverty" and menstrual equity
• Our interview with Cat Song on measuring social impact projects

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In this "Reflections" episode, Teri & Michael reflect back on the past six #SurvivorStories - Episode 30, with Anita Gera and the misuse of the Hague Convention to harm children, Episode 31, with "Caitlin" and the danger of shared parenting with an abuser, Episode 32, with Lana and her "Sophie's Choice" to protect her daughter from CSA, Episode 35, with Maria Santiago on the impact of childhood domestic violence, Episode 36 with Ashley Bendiksen on healing through advocacy, and Episode 37 with Sarah Strong on mitigating coercive parenting with an abuser.

Teri and Michael co-host the en(gender)ed reflections episodes which serve to help curate a series of past episodes, usually around a specific theme. We hope these episodes help listeners coming in at that point of the podcast identify particular episodes and themes that they may want to explore. During our reflection, we talked about these additional resources:

• Trevor Noah on Getting Pulled Over in America versus honking at a police officer in South Africa
• Frequency of child sexual abuse through RAINN
• The Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly
• Vox article on whether and if you can separate the artist from the art titled, "What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?"
• Backlash on Terry Crews for his sexual abuse claims
• Teri's post about an apology video from women to men titled, "It's Authentic Gaslighting--Not Authentic Love"
• The Netflix documentary "Abducted in Plain Sight" and the main character's grooming of not just the victim but also the whole family
• Teri's appearance on BlogTalkRadio, talking about "Personal Governance: Leveraging a Feminist Mindset"
• The YouTube series trying to bridge the gap called "Middle Ground"
• Teri's blog post on the spectrum of abuse and accountability
• New York Times article titled, "No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture" about the effects of an accidental matriarchal culture on the society of baboons

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Our guest today is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women's health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of the Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. We will be speaking with Dr. Kendall-Tackett about violence, trauma, depression, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection and impact in domestic violence and child custody cases.

In our conversation, Dr. Kendall-Tackett and I referenced the following resources:

• "The startling toll on children who witness domestic violence is just now being understood" in USA Today
• Managing Pain Before It Manages You, by Margaret Caudill
• The work of Dr. Doug Drossman on the link between chronic pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• "Violence against women and the perinatal period: The impact of lifetime violence and abuse on pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding." Trauma, Violence and Abuse," 8(3), 344-353, by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, 2007.
• American Academy of Pediatric's Guidelines on Breastfeeding
• "The bottle-feeding culture is alive and well: Lessons from stock photo sites," Clinical Lactation, 7(2), 45-47, by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, 2016.
• "The health effects of childhood abuse: Four pathways by which abuse can influence health," Child Abuse & Neglect, 6/7, 715-730, 2002.
• The origins of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and the connection between child sexual abuse and obesity

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Our guest today is Julia Hochstadt, a therapist with over twenty years of expertise in working with victims of crime, trauma and interpersonal violence, including child abuse, rape and sexual assault and domestic violence.

Before working in private practice, Julia led New York Presbyterian's Victim Intervention Program (VIP) providing acute emergency room support, counseling, and case management services to crime and trauma victims and their families. She also worked at The Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in a similar capacity. Trained as a social worker, Julia also holds advanced training certifications in psychodynamic psychotherapy and is certified as an expert witness in domestic violence for the Manhattan and the Bronx District Attorney's Offices. Julia can be reached at [email protected] or via her website.

Julia is here with us today to speak about her clinical work serving survivors of trauma and interpersonal violence, the specific needs and challenges of working with this population, and suggestions for practice or policy reform that may help practitioners better help survivors.

During our discussion, Julia and I referenced the following resources:

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Dr. Tanja Jovanovic, Director of the Grady Trauma Project and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.

Dr. Jovanovic's current research program focuses on the Interaction of traumatic experiences, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and genetic risk factors in mentor disorders in adults and children in high-risk populations. We will be speaking to Dr. Jovanovic about her work and its application to children witnessing abuse and its impact on their health, development and future risk factors which characterizes it as the same risk of harm to them as if the children had been abused directly. Dr. Jovanovic's research has wide-ranging implications for how courts and policymakers are treating intimate partner violence in new program pilot interventions.

• Exposure to Violence Accelerates Epigenetic Aging in Children
• Maternal buffering of fear-potentiated startle in children and adolescents with trauma exposure
• Maternal Child Sexual Abuse Is Associated With Lower Maternal Warmth Toward Daughters but Not Sons
• Physiological markers of anxiety are increased in children of abused mothers

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On this #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Sarah Strong, a protective parent and survivor of domestic violence and coercive control, a fitness instructor, a power lifter, and a health advocate. Sarah talks about her whirlwind romance with her ex-husband whom she met in March 2016, married three months later in June 2016, and divorced in early 2018. Today, Sarah shares with us her story of how her appeals for help from the courts and the military during her marriage and divorce has transformed her thinking about relationships, parenting and her body. Sarah offers her story as both a cautionary tale of what to look for and what to avoid in a relationship and in a parenting partner, and how to recover when your choices lead you astray. We will also talk about the role that power lifting has had in helping Sarah to manage the ongoing stress in her life.

Throughout our conversation, Sarah references examples of #abusertactics, #signsofabuse, trauma bonding, and #upstandertips. If you think you are in an abusive relationship, please contact your local domestic violence provider for help.

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