FreeBody Podcast

By Paton Ashbrook

Everyone has a different body story. On FreeBody we give a platform to folks where they can tell their unique stories through the lens of their body. We cover topics from somatic experiencing, healing... more

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The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.

FreeBody Podcast episodes:

April 10, 2023 Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day Three and Four
On today's episode, Paton answers a couple questions she received from @freebodypodcast on instagram, before jumping into Days 3 & 4. If you have questions, thoughts, insight, please follow us on instagram and reach out!
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!
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22min
April 03, 2023 Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day Two
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!
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25min
March 27, 2023 Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day One
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare.
You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode.
Please subscribe, share, and review!
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22min
November 22, 2022 Thanksgiving Special: Free Bodies Around The World
During a trip through Europe (Spain, France, Italy) and Iceland, Paton asked people she met along the way (folks from Germany, Bangladesh, England, and more) the same question she asks every guest who comes on the podcast: "what is an early body memory you have that holds significance to you, and why?" While reflecting on the complexities of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, she decided now would be a good time to share these vulnerable and powerful stories that remind us all what to be thankful for: our bodies and all their challenges, lessons, and gifts for our growth.
This episode was edited on ancestral Lenape land, the homeland of the Lenape people who were violently displaced by European colonialist settlers over hundreds of years. Colonialization is ongoing, and mindfulness and acknowledgment is only a piece of what work can and needs to be done. Last week the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments of the Haaland v. Brackeen court case which seeks to declare ICWA, the Indian Child Welfare Act unconstitutional. The decision will not be made public until sometime in summer of 2023. You can still take action to support and serve native children and their families by spreading awareness, listening to the audio of the oral arguments from the hearing, signing the Protect ICWA Petition and more. Go follow @protecticwa on instagram for more ways to help. #protectICWA
You can hear audio of the Supreme Court hearing for Haaland v. Brackeen here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2022/21-376
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28min
July 14, 2022 Floating, Smoking, and Transcending: Noah Gaynor
Today Paton speaks with her friend and fellow classmate Noah Gaynor, NY based actor and writer. This incredible conversation touches on body image, plant medicine, unhealthy relationships to exercise, acting, transcendental meditation, floating therapy, healing "ah-ha!" moments, and all those times Paton dragged him to hot yoga before a 14 hour day at Juilliard.
Follow Noah on instagram @_noahgaynor_
IG: @freebodypodcast
More Sources and Resources:
Cannabis is Medicine by Dr. Bonni Goldstein
"White Ferality" by Resmaa Menakem
Medical News Today article about the Endocannabinoid System
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1h 8min
July 05, 2022 BONUS - Fertility Treatments without Roe V. Wade: Marinda Anderson
Today’s episode is the third in our bonus episode series regarding reproductive justice. We’re sharing women’s healthcare experiences as we face a world without the federal protection of abortion rights. Last week I met with my dear friend and fellow actress, Marinda Anderson, who back in 2020 shared her fertility journey of getting her eggs frozen in a daily series on her instagram account @marindaanderson. If you’re curious you should definitely check the videos out, they’re still up. In our talk today, we look at Marinda's personal experience through the lens of today’s America and how the overturning of Roe v Wade could be affecting fertility treatments all over the country.
Sources and Resources:
Forbes Health article: Will A Roe V. Wade Overturn Impact Fertility Treatments?
“Roe v. Wade being overturned could see IVF banned in at least 30 states” on Newsweek.
Ask for Jane and Roe v. Wade V. God on the VOX podcast
Politico article: NY passes strengthened gun laws in wake of SCOTUS ruling
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53min
June 27, 2022 Neurodiversity, Plant Medicine, and the Need for Destigmatization: Dr. Miyabe Shields, PhD
Today’s guest is Dr. Miyabe Shields, a Ph.D cannabis research scientist as well as daily user and advocate for accessible cannabis education. They are a co-host of the podcast Smoke N’ Science where they and Dr. Riley Kirk, PhD explain the facts and their own experiences in using cannabis as medication. Today Miyabe and l talk about the benefits of cannabis use for some of the neurodivergent community, the importance of the endocannabinoid system, the need for destigmatization, and the benefits and similarities there may be between cannabis and our other plant medicine friend, magic mushrooms aka psilocybin.
Follow Dr. Miyabe Shields on instagram and TikTok @miyabephd
Follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast
Credits:
Clip from Johann Hari's TedTalk explaining "Rat Park" experiment in "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong."
Roe V Wade resource recs:
The Ezra Klein Show: "The Dobbs Decision Isn’t Just About Abortion. It’s About Power," and "The Ethics of Abortion."
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54min
June 20, 2022 Living Intuitively: Kristie Larson
Today you’ll hear Kristie Larson’s body story and her journey to becoming a personal trainer as well as a fitness and intuitive eating coach in NYC. She is the founder of The Feel Good Bunch, an online community of women who are super into fitness and super not into diet culture. We connect on our mutual love for fitness, processing trauma, and Jim Carrey, and we also go into intuitive eating, how exercise can help change certain societal narratives, and how life changing it is to consistently listen to your body’s signals. She is hilarious, grounded, a very impressive teacher, and has packed a TON of wisdom into one episode.
Find more about Kristie on her website www.kristielarson.com and on tiktok and IG @kristielarson_
Please subscribe, rate, and review and follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast
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1h 6min
June 16, 2022 BONUS - Theatre Needs Therapy: Shana Gozansky
Theatre director Shana Gozansky and Paton have a conversation about the roles of actors and directors, and how they can help make theatre a more equitable, diverse, and ultimately, healing community for all bodies. By all of us accepting ourselves for who we are, shadows and all, we create a world where we can accept *others* too, and live from faith instead of fear. How does all that relate to the entertainment industry and studying the arts? Long story short: Theatre needs therapy. As do we all.
Shana's IG: @shaygo
Freebody IG: @freebodypodcast
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51min
June 13, 2022 Cannabis and Cancer Patient Advocacy: Beth Fairchild
Beth Fairchild is an artist, activist, and yogi living with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Beth and Paton were introduced through We Go High, a cannabis justice initiative in North Carolina that does incredible work (find them @wegohighnc on instagram). Today Beth talks about her advocacy for breast cancer patients and medical marijuana use, how her relationship to cannabis has evolved, and how getting her cancer diagnosis changed her relationship to her body and herself. Please subscribe, rate, and review!
For more about Beth and her work: bethfairchild.com
Check out wegohigh.info and IG: @wegohighnc
Follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast
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32min

FAQs about FreeBody Podcast:

How many episodes does FreeBody Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.