Hi. It’s Micah from Modern Hysteria, your podcast and newsletter revealing the taboos of women’s brains and bodies (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts).

This week, we’re talking about the real reasons the US birth rate is in decline.

THE TABOO

Why people aren’t having kids… Not because they don’t want them, but because society makes parenthood feel economically, emotionally, and structurally impossible.

LINKS + RESOURCES

* Municipal grocery stores

* Beyonce article

* Good Housekeeping push presents

* Mommit push presents

* The Chloe Balloon Patchwork Leather and Suede Tote Bag 👜

* The Gucci Diana bag 👜

THE GUEST EXPERT

Cyntia Onuoha Brown is a doctor of pharmacy and clinical pharmacologist now working in the women’s health sector.

📧 [email protected]

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The declining birth rate isn’t a referendum on women’s choices or values.

It’s a mirror reflecting the systems we live inside—systems that make parenthood financially precarious, emotionally taxing, and logistically unsupported.

People still want families.

What they need are the conditions to build them: affordable housing, job stability, paid leave, accessible reproductive healthcare, and a culture that doesn’t treat caregiving as a women-only burden.

TIME STAMPS

* 02:15 | Fertility rate x birth rate

* 5:01 | How we treat pregnant people and mothers

* 9:59 | Invisible labor

* 11:25 | Deadbeat moms

* 13:40 | Cost of living x job insecurity

* 14:41 | Male fertility

* 20:08 | Aside: Béyoncé

* 22:08 | Selfish women

* 23:48 | Aside: Push presents

* 29:40 | Aside: Baby bonuses

* 32:03 | Barriers to becoming parents

* 33:07 | Aside: Mamdani groceries

* 35:13 | What do we want from policymakers?

* 40:52 | What are you crazy about right now?

What do you think?

Should the government give people push presents?

Is the decline in birth rate a crisis?

Should women be more selfish?

Tell me in the comments (I read every single one!)

Hi. It’s Micah from Modern Hysteria, your podcast and newsletter revealing the taboos of women’s brains and bodies (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts).

This week, we’re talking about menopause, mythology, and midlife crises.

THE TABOO

Women’s midlife and menopause are not a decline, a disappearance, or a dried-up ending—but a powerful rebirth.

LINKS + RESOURCES

* Sharon Blackie’s Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

* Women Who Run With The Wolves

* Goddess quiz

* The tale of Bluebeard

THE GUEST EXPERT

Andrea M. Slominski, PhD — AKA Dr. A. — is a therapeutic women’s midlife and menopause coach, speaker, and author. During her dissertation research and study, she discovered a new life stage has emerged in the past 100 years, for women.

Naming this new stage, from ages 45-70, “Regency”, Dr. A. has spoken at conferences, published articles, and coached women to make the most of their emerging power years. Dr. A. guides women 45+ through the often tumultuous transformations that occur during perimenopause, midlife, and menopause using creativity, story, mythology, imagination, ceremony, and ritual.

She has created a methodology that helps women navigate these powerful years. Her work is rooted in depth psychology, showing Regent women how to reclaim their passions, develop their purpose, and rediscover their “True North.”

TIME STAMPS

* 4:54 | Aside: the archetypal feminine

* 8:48 | What are the markers of regency?

* 12:04 | The triple transformation

* 13:51 | Aside: Maiden-mother-crone

* 16:34 | How to find a menopause-supportive provider

* 17:41 | Caring for your body in midlife

* 21:40 | Aside: Demeter and Persephone

* 26:27 | Characters from mythology, fairy tales, folktales

* 26:45 | Aside: Ariadne

* 30:33 | Aside: Bluebeard

* 36:11 | Listener questions

* 38:12 | Seven realms of change

* 39:26 | Metaphor for midlife

* 41:33 | Why am I so angry?

* 44:49 | Aside: Christiane Northrup

* 45:40 | Mythology as inspiration

* 47:18 | Questions to ask yourself

* 48:40 | The heroine’s journey

* 53:29 | What’s in your bag?

Does this resonate? Tell me in the comments (I read every single one)

Still to come in Season 2:

* embodied boundaries and sex

* ADHD x nutrition

* myths of motherhood

… and more!

Hi. It’s Micah from Modern Hysteria, your podcast and newsletter revealing the taboos of women’s brains and bodies (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts).

This week, we’re talking with Sadie Chanlett-Avery about the world of wellness and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) and how it intersects with the alt-right, conspiracy thinking, pseudoscience, and more.

The Taboo

The main taboo explored in this episode is:

Wellness is not inherently good or moral.

Links + Resources

🗞️ Opinion | How MAHA Is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them

📱 yogisadie | Sadie Chanlett-Avery on Instagram

👩🏼‍💻 Sassafras Revival

The Guest Expert

Sadie Chanlett-Avery is the founder of Sassafras Revival, an Asheville, North Carolina, USA-based company offering movement medicine classes, mouth-watering international retreats, and Tarot for the Soulful and Skeptical: a workout for the intuition. She is a Movement Medicine innovator, a Wellness Retreat creator, and a writer wrestling with the question: how do we sustain ourselves right now? With over 22 years of experience in holistic health, her work blends exercise, mysticism, and practical tools for modern resilience.

Key Takeaways

1. Wellness culture isn’t inherently healing—it can be a gateway to control, elitism, and even extremism.

The episode breaks open the assumption that “natural” or “alternative” equals safe or progressive. Sadie explains how wellness spaces—especially those dominated by white women—have become vulnerable to conspiracy thinking, moral purity narratives, and the wellness-to-alt-right pipeline. Wellness can easily slip into fear-based dogma disguised as empowerment.

2. Health is not a personal achievement; it’s a collective responsibility.

Sadie underscores that illness is not a moral failure and that no one can “future-proof” themselves through perfection, purity, or biohacking. Real health requires public health systems, community infrastructure, environmental protections, and collective care—not individual optimization or self-blame.

3. Movement and community offer grounded, accessible counterpoints to wellness culture’s excesses.

Instead of treating movement as punishment, aesthetics, or moral performance, Sadie frames it as “movement medicine”—a way to regulate emotions, process anxiety, and reconnect with ourselves and others. Communal movement spaces, belonging, and ritual are the antidotes to the isolating, hyper-individualized wellness grind.

✅ Action Items

* Avoid getting hangry

* Connect with community

* Move your body in a way that is not exhausting

* Get the best rest and sleep possible

* When someone asks you how you’re doing, answer them honestly

* Practice relaxation techniques

* Exercising agency; movement is free

Time Stamps

* 4:02 | Where MAHA went off course

* 6:42 | Growing up in a commune

* 8:55 | Wellness conspiracy theories

* 11:53 | Biohacking and the health meritocracy

* 16:45 | Spiritual practice that sustains us

* 17:12 | Aside: SNAP benefits

* 19:47 | Movement x wellness x moralism

* 20:57 | Aside: RED-S

* 25:22 | Finding identity in rigid wellness routines

* 27:56 | Aside: Abigail Spanberger

* 35:01 | Wellness x the alt-right

* 39:59 | What’s in your bag?

Hi. It’s Micah from Modern Hysteria, your podcast and newsletter revealing the taboos of women’s brains and bodies (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts).

This week, we’re talking about “mom rage,” or the intense or blinding rage that feels like it comes on really quickly, and is often related to a feeling of helplessness or powerlessness or stuck-ness.

The Taboo

The main taboo explored in this episode is:

Mothers aren’t allowed to be angry.

Links + Resources

Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood by Minna Dubin

Self compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff

Allison’s website

Therapist biz coaching with Allison Staiger

Key Takeaways

* Mom rage is not a personal failing! It’s a symptom of a system of unsupport.

* The pressure to gentle parent perfectly can intensify rage.

* Maternal rage is an invitation to rest and repair.

The Guest Expert

Allison Staiger is a licensed clinical social worker certified in perinatal mental health, with expertise in perinatal mood and anxiety concerns, pregnancy and infant loss, infertility, birth trauma, postpartum rage, and matrescence. She owns Highwire Therapy, a solo private practice in Chicago, specializing in folks with personal and professional caregiving identities (parents, therapists, teachers, etc) through a feminist lens. Allison is also a business and leadership coach to therapists and other helping and healing professionals who want to use their private practices and bodies of work as vehicles for justice, innovation, and care leadership.

Action Items

* Track what’s going on for you; set an alarm on your phone for every 30 minutes — for a couple days — and when it goes off note your experience; how irritable you are. When was the last time you took care of your own needs? Peed? Ate? (We are often disconnected from our bodies and needs.)

* When you crash out, do a review: What happened? What was going on? What led up to this? Then you can notice patterns. What does a 5/10 anger feel like versus a 10/10? This will give you time and space to pause and respond rather than react when you feel rage

* So what if you’re angry? Acceptance; anger is okay; women have been conditioned to not do this — especially moms —because it is seen as incompatible with femininity. We can be angry without causing damage to our families.

* What does the anger mean? What do you NEED?

* Get help not just so you can be a better parent but so you can be a happy person. 😊

* Worried about attachment? It is not fixed and can be repaired.

* What’s the trigger? Are you burdened by all your tasks? Where else are you feeling resentful and overburdened in your life?

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Hi. It’s Micah from Modern Hysteria, your podcast and newsletter revealing the taboos of women’s brains and bodies (listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts).

This week, we’re talking about the phenomenon of “nesting” while pregnant, and the pressure to ‘bounce back’ after childbirth.

The Taboo

The main taboo of this episode is the myth of the “independent, bounce‑back mom.”

Links + Resources

* The First Forty Days book

* 12 Tips for Visiting Brand New Parents: How to be a Considerate Guest

* Amy’s website: eatwhatfeelsgood.com

The Guest Expert

Amy is a mom of three and has certifications in pre- and postnatal coaching as well as holistic nutrition. By day she’s a speech-language pathologist and lives with her kids and husband in Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA.

Key Takeaways

Bounce-back culture is a lie.

The pressure to “look like you never had a baby” just weeks after birth is deeply rooted in patriarchy, perfectionism, and a culture that sees women’s bodies as projects to manage. Healing is not a race — it’s a season that deserves time, care, and support.

Nourishment > restriction.

Postpartum nutrition shouldn’t be about shrinking — it should be about rebuilding. Nutrient-dense, warming, easy-to-digest foods like soups, stews, and bone broth can help replenish tissue, regulate hormones, and support emotional health. The goal isn’t to get smaller — it’s to feel stronger and more supported.

Q+A

 ML: So I’m wondering, Amy, what have you learned about our culture of motherhood and postpartum care working with postpartum moms. And from your own experience, about the terminology that is important to use or what concepts are most important?

AS: I think instead of when we think of, ‘Oh, I just had this baby, I had this,’ I quote, ‘I have this weight to lose, I gained weight. Now it’s time to get this weight off.’ We think of weight loss in terms of things that we need to take away from our diet, things we need to eliminate, calories we need to restrict.

And in postpartum healing, I really focus on nourishing our bodies. We actually need to feed ourselves. What we need and we need to feed ourselves in general, in order for our bodies to heal from the inside out.

And I often say that like weight loss postpartum can happen as a side effect of properly nourishing ourselves.

So if we get the food in, the fluid in our body and we’re not trying to restrict whatsoever, I do not believe in that. Then our bodies will start to naturally heal. Our organs will go back to the places where they’re supposed to go, and actually the weight will start to come off. And if we’ve nourished ourselves appropriately and gotten enough fat and protein in our diets, then the tissues are going to restore themselves and the elasticity will go, come back into our inner organs in our skin, and it in theory will get smaller again.

So I think focusing on nourishing and not restricting.

ML: Yeah, and getting smaller does seem to be the goal for most people, or is that what you’re seeing in your practice?

AS: Yeah, because it, it’s playing into people’s mental health too. They’re just thinking that that’s what they should be doing. And then also jumping back into exercise is how oftentimes women think that they need to jump back into exercise in order to get back smaller in order to get their fitness back or whatever.

And it’s not like exercise is a bad thing, but as I’ve learned more about postpartum healing, I know that too much too soon is very much a thing. And if we do too much too soon, we can actually jeopardize our healing. We can make healing take longer. We can make the whole process harder for ourselves all the way up until menopause because our hormones are healing, our bodies are healing.

And if we don’t, let say our pelvic floor heal appropriately after giving birth by resting it for enough time we can cause ourselves pelvic floor issues that will last forever.

Time Stamps

* 3:38 | “Healing” your cycle?

* 5:34 | Health as an individual pursuit?

* 9:27 | Getting your body back?

* 14: 27 | Aside: What is ‘bounce-back culture?’

* 16:17 | What’s going on in our bodies postpartum?

* 22:05 | Nesting and why it’s important

* 25:16 | Best meals for prepping and meal trains

* 36:58 | Top nesting pantry items

* 41:22 | What’s in your bag?

What’s in her bag?

That’s all for this week, friend.

Thank you for listening!

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This week, we’re talking about reclaiming sexual pleasure after experiencing sexual violence or trauma.

The Taboo

The main taboo of this episode is the idea that survivors of sexual violence can—and deserve to—experience sexual pleasure again, even while still healing from trauma.

Links + Resources

* Dr. Holly’s YouTube channel

* The Holly Wood Sexologist

* The Blog

* Dr. Holly on Instagram

* Free resources

The Guest Expert

Dr. Holly Wood is a highly respected expert in the field of sex therapy. With a PhD in Human Sexuality, certification as an AASECT-certified sex therapist, and board certification as a clinical sexologist through the American Board of Sexology, Dr. Holly blends her deep expertise with a warm, inclusive approach. She’s spent years helping individuals and couples navigate the complexities of sexual health, intimacy, trauma recovery, and relationships, offering evidence-based insights in a way that’s both engaging and easy to understand. Dr. Holly is passionate about creating safe, judgment-free spaces for exploring sexuality and empowering people to embrace their authentic selves.

📍 Orange County, California, USA

“ Whatever you want to share about your story is your choice. If you feel comfortable to share some of that with your partner at whatever level feels okay for you …

Even just like, ‘I’ve had really bad sexual experiences,’ very like surface level helps to signal to your partner that there are things that might come up— that triggers might come up —that have absolutely nothing to do with your partner, but there’s a reason why I might react a certain way.”

Key Takeaways

Sexual trauma isn’t always violent—and it’s still valid.

Many survivors struggle to name or validate their experiences because they don’t fit the stereotypical mold of “real” assault. Coercion, pressure in relationships, lack of enthusiastic consent, and internalized people-pleasing all fall under the spectrum of sexual violence. If it wasn’t a full yes, it matters—and it counts.

Pleasure after trauma is possible, but healing isn’t linear.

Reconnecting with pleasure can start far from the bedroom—with everyday sensory experiences like taste, texture, and touch. It’s not about jumping into sex, but about gently rebuilding safety, autonomy, and connection with your own body—at your pace, on your terms.

Healing in relationship can be part of the recovery.

You don’t have to be “healed” to deserve love or intimacy. If you’re in a safe partnership, healing with someone can be profoundly supportive. Communication, consent, and co-regulation become the foundation for trust—and for rewriting what intimacy can feel like.

Time Stamps

* 2:25 | Defining sexual trauma

* 11:08 | Dr. Holly’s story

* 14:28 | How do you know if you have had a sexually traumatic experience?

* 17:14 | How cis women are socialized as people pleasers

* 20:45 | Sexual pleasure after sexual violence

* 26:45 | Exercises and practices for pleasure

* 33:21 | Conversation starters

This week, we’re talking about trends in diet culture, rebranded as wellness.

The Taboo(s)

We’re unpacking why bloating isn’t a problem to fix, how colonics and cleanses became “wellness” scams, and why carbs, not restriction, are what your gut actually needs.

Links + Resources

* 5 Ways to Avoid IBS Flares

* Samina’s website

* Work with Samina

* Follow Samina on Instagram @ inclusive.ibs.dietician

The Guest Expert

Samina Qureshi is a Registered Dietitian of 10+ years and the founder of her weight-inclusive GI nutrition and communications practice, Wholesome Start, LLC. She specializes in helping people find balance with food and gain relief from gastrointestinal (GI) disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) without rigid diets, guilt, or shame.

Samina encourages her clients and community to embrace their cultural foods and traditions, recognizing the importance of food as a source of nourishment, connection, and joy. Through her work, she also partners with companies that align with her core values, has created educational presentations for health-focused conferences, and has been featured in local television shows, social media, podcasts, online articles, and print publications.

Key Takeaways

* Bloating isn’t a flaw — it’s physiology. Your stomach expanding throughout the day is a normal part of digestion, not a sign that your gut is “broken.” Instead of trying to “fix” it with cleanses or colonics, wear clothes that fit your body, not the other way around.

* Restriction isn’t wellness — nourishment is. Cutting carbs, doing juice cleanses, or following extreme diets might feel virtuous, but they often under-fuel your brain and gut. Carbs and fiber are essential for energy, mood, and healthy digestion. You can’t heal a starved gut with more restriction.

Time Stamps

* 4:31 | What is diet culture?

* 7:35 | GLP-1s

* 11:18 | The fear of carbs

* 13:39 | Bloating

* 19:03 | Cleanses and detoxes

* 20:42 | Juicing and juice cleanses

* 24:48 | Colonics

* 28:35| Pre- and probiotics

* 32:30 | The carnivore diet

This week, we’re talking about how having our pain believed no matter our sex or race isn’t just a reproductive justice issue, it’s our civil right.

The Taboo

Pain dismissal in women’s healthcare is so common, it’s considered normal. But what if it’s not just medical neglect—it’s a civil rights violation?

Links + Resources

* Human Rites by Juno Dawson 📘

* National Health Law Program (NHeLP) ⚖️

Sign up for the NHeLP newsletter

NHeLP on Facebook

NHeLP on BlueSky

* Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity Resource Hub 💻

* 📝 related blog post

* Follow Madeline on Instagram @reprolawyer 📱

* 2025 Landmines in Healthcare Policy 💣

“ Reproductive justice means trusting people with the truth of what’s happening in our bodies. So that we can have all the information and can decide what’s right for us.”

— Madeline Morcelle

The Guest Expert

Madeline T. Morcelle, J.D., M.P.H., is a Senior Attorney at the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), where she leads work advancing civil rights and equitable access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly for people with disabilities, immigrants, and low-income communities. A movement lawyer and coalition-builder, she focuses on Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and federal health policy reform. Previously, she directed public benefits law at the Mississippi Center for Justice and held legal and policy roles at CMS and public health institutions. A Harvard-trained public health leader, Madeline has received numerous national honors and serves on advisory boards supporting reproductive health access and early abortion training.

Key Takeaways

🩺 1. Pain dismissal in women’s healthcare is systemic, and it’s a civil rights violation.

What many people write off as “bad bedside manner” is actually a pattern of discrimination. When providers ignore or downplay women’s pain, like in reproductive care, it’s not just harmful, it’s a violation of federal civil rights law under the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557).

🧬 2. Dismissed pain delays diagnoses and derails reproductive autonomy.

Conditions like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, endometriosis, and others often go undiagnosed for years due to providers ignoring women’s reports of pain. This leads to missed or delayed information about pregnancy risks, fertility issues, and hereditary conditions, which robs patients of informed decision-making and violates the core tenets of reproductive justice.

🔥 3. You have rights!

If a healthcare provider refuses to treat or acknowledge your pain, you may have legal recourse. While the current administration is rolling back protections, the law still stands. You can take action: know your rights, report civil rights violations, and advocate for stronger state-level protections.

Time Stamps

5:29 | How does pain dismissal show up in the reproductive health space?

10:23 | Pain dismissal and chronic conditions

18:37 | Fannie Lou Hamer

19:58 | Aside: ‘Mississippi Appendectomies’

23:34 | Affordable Care Act (ACA) and patient protections

28:31 | What can we do to protect ourselves in a medical context?

33:41 | What systemic changes are most urgent right now?

This week, we’re talking about the intersection of fertility, nutrition, and diet culture. We cover:

* Why under-eating is more common than you think

* What your menstrual cycle is trying to tell you

* Why the most fertile body is often not the “ideal” body

The Taboo

The body that is healthiest, most nourished, and most fertile is often at odds with the body ideal promoted by diet culture, wellness trends, and societal expectations.

“The most fertile body is often not the body we're told we should have as women.”

Links + Resources

🍳 Amara’s cookbook: Eat Your Way To Fertility

🧴 TikTok face spray: Hypochlorous acid

🆓 Your Fertility Action Plan: 5 Evidence-Based Steps to Boost Your Chances This Cycle — That You Probably Haven’t Tried Yet

The Guest Expert

Amara is a fertility dietitian and who started her business, Foodbaby, after her own struggles to start a family. She is passionate about helping people tweak their diet and lifestyle without restrictions, a billion supplements or BS diets. Her debut cookbook, Eat Your Way To Fertility, translates fertility nutrition science into practical tips and delicious, generous recipes.

Follow Amara on Instagram — @foodbabyfertility

Key Takeaways

The most fertile body may not be the thinnest, or the one that matches our beauty ideals.

Many women come to fertility work still steeped in diet culture, wellness trends, and restrictive eating patterns. Amara calls out the dangerous disconnect: the thinner, more “controlled” body idealized by culture is often undernourished, and less hormonally resilient.

“Clean eating” — even when TTC — is often just restriction in disguise.

Amara explains that many of her clients think they’re eating “healthy” but are actually unintentionally under-eating—especially fats, calories, and key micronutrients. Diets branded as “clean,” “anti-inflammatory,” or “gut-healing” often reduce fertility by cutting out essential food groups.

Your menstrual cycle may be trying to tell you something.

Your cycle offers real-time data about your hormonal health—but most women don’t know how to read it. Amara encourages people to start by tracking their full cycle (not just the bleed) to identify “pink flags”—subtle signs like short luteal phases, irregular spotting, or mid-cycle pain that might indicate nutritional or hormonal imbalances.

Time Stamps

* 9:19 | Breaking down the menstrual cycle

* 15:40 | Why we’re so impacted by diet culture

* 24:24 | Fats, fish, fruit

* 28:59 | Blood sugar balance

* 30:22 | Trans fats

* 41:26 | The message from your menstrual cycle

* 44:34 | “Pink Flags”

* 46:33 | Alcohol, caffeine, sugar

* 54:25 | Supplements

* 59:00 | What’s in her bag?

What’s In Her Bag?

Upcoming

* Carbs, juice cleanses, and diet culture with Samina Qureshi

* Intimacy after sexual assault with Dr. Holly Wood

* Nesting x nutrition with Amy Spofford

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This week, friend of the pod and therapist Grace Bithell returns to talk about disorganized attachment, the least understood and most taboo of the attachment styles.

We talk about:

* What disorganized attachment looks like and where it comes from

* The overlaps between disorganized attachment, C-PTSD, relational OCD, and borderline personality disorder

* Living room and bedroom kids

* How to handle disorganized attachment as it plays out in your relationships

* What we get wrong about attachment parenting

The Taboo

Disorganized attachment comes from a dynamic where your adults are “scared” and “scary.” It often stems from childhood experiences where the caregiver—the person who was supposed to keep you safe—was also the source of fear, neglect, abuse, or emotional unpredictability.

Links + Resources

* 📱 Follow Grace on Instagram

* 🎧 Grace’s Podcast: The Guilt Girl

* 🆓 Schedule a free 15-min phone consult with Grace

* ✍🏻 Grace’s blog

Key Takeaways

1. Disorganized Attachment Is a Survival Strategy, Not a Character Flaw

This attachment style forms in childhood when caregivers are both a source of safety and a source of fear. That contradiction wires the nervous system to crave intimacy while fearing it, leading to push-pull dynamics in adult relationships.

You’re not broken… you adapted to an unsafe environment.

2. It’s the Most Misunderstood Attachment Style Because It’s Messy

Disorganized attachment doesn’t fit neatly into categories. It involves both anxious and avoidant behaviors, and often gets confused with (or misdiagnosed as) borderline personality disorder, C-PTSD, or relational OCD.

3. Healing Is Possible, but It Happens in Relationships, Not Isolation

Attachment wounds happen in relationships, and they also heal in relationships. You don’t need to be perfectly “secure” to deserve love—but you do need to practice rupture and repair, learn to pause, and take small, uncomfortable steps toward safety.

Coming up on Season 2:

* Intimacy after sexual assault with Dr. Holly Wood

* Fertility and food

* Money x power x peace of mind

* Nesting and nutrition

… and a lot more.

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