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A patient told Dr. Jen Ashby, a few months into nursing her second baby, that nobody warned her breastfeeding would feel like a second labor, except this one lasts a year. She was talking about more than pain. She was talking about the sheer draw on her body.

In this solo episode, Jen asks what breastfeeding costs the body, and answers through East Asian medicine, which has a precise language for it. Breast milk is understood as transformed qi and blood. Birth and pregnancy already draw heavily on blood, which is why postpartum traditions insist on rest and nourishment. The spleen and stomach generate qi and blood, so low supply is often read as a tired spleen without enough raw material. The liver channel runs through the breast, so blocked ducts are read as stagnation, sometimes with heat.

The through-line: a depleted mother and a blocked mother can look alike, but they need opposite help. One needs rebuilding. The other needs movement. One checklist for everyone misses that.

A NOTE BEFORE YOU LISTEN This is an educational look at how East Asian medicine interprets lactation. It is not medical advice. Breast pain, a hard or red area, flu-like aches, or a fever while nursing can be signs of mastitis, which can become an infection. Contact your doctor, midwife, or an IBCLC promptly. Check with your healthcare provider before starting any herb, tea, or supplement while nursing.

WHAT WE GET INTO

• Why breastfeeding can feel like a second labor
• Milk as transformed qi and blood
• Postpartum depletion and the tradition of sitting the month
• The spleen and stomach, and what low supply can mean
• The liver and stomach channels, blocked ducts, and mastitis
• A clinical pearl about the left and right breast
• Depleted versus blocked: why the same checklist misses

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GO DEEPER Sandy Adler Lactation Consulting: https://sandyadlerlactationconsulting.com/

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DISCLAIMER The information shared on Ovary Acting is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed are those of Dr. Jennifer Ashby and her guests and do not represent the positions of UCSF or any affiliated institution. East Asian Medicine, including acupuncture and herbal medicine, is a licensed healthcare profession and is not a substitute for care from your physician or other qualified medical provider. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, contact emergency services immediately. Always consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new health practice, supplement, or herbal protocol. Individual results vary. Nothing discussed on this podcast creates a patient-practitioner relationship.

Jen's guest is Sandra Adler Killen, RN, IBCLC, a friend of 25 years. They raised their daughters together. Sandra is an emergency room and pediatric nurse and an internationally board-certified lactation consultant, and since 2024 she has made repeated humanitarian medical missions to Gaza.

She first went in as a trauma nurse. Local clinicians saw her lactation background in action and asked her to come back and teach. She has returned roughly every six months since, training doctors, midwives, and nurses with the GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance, with the goal of making herself unnecessary.

Sandra explains why breastfeeding carries so much weight when formula and clean water can't be relied on, what chronic stress and malnutrition do to milk supply, and what care looks like with almost no supplies. She shares the mothers who stayed with her, and how she carries it home.

A NOTE BEFORE YOU LISTEN This conversation includes firsthand accounts of war, traumatic injury, and the deaths of infants and family members. Please take care of yourself while you listen. The views about the conflict are Sandra's own. Lactation information here is educational and describes care in a humanitarian crisis, not personal medical advice. For feeding challenges with your own baby, reach out to an IBCLC or your pediatric provider. If this stirs up something heavy, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7).

WHAT WE GET INTO

• How Sandra first ended up in Gaza, and why she keeps going back
• Why formula isn't a simple fallback in a crisis
• What war and chronic stress do to a mother's milk supply
• Prolactin, oxytocin, letdown, and malnutrition
• Capacity building: training a core team of clinicians
• Improvised care, including the seashell story
• The mothers Sandra can't forget
• How she prepares, and how she comes home
• How listeners can help right now

HOW TO HELP GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance: https://www.gina.org.uk/donate Lactation consultants who want to volunteer remotely: [email protected] Glia: https://glia.org/pages/glia4gaza Sandra's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nourishing-hope-for-mothers-and-newborns And Sandra's ask: keep talking about it, and keep contacting your representatives.

FIND SANDRA https://sandyadlerlactationconsulting.com/

FEATURED The Energy Prescription: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science for Thriving Through Menopause (Wiley), Jen's book. Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

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DISCLAIMER The information shared on Ovary Acting is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed are those of Dr. Jennifer Ashby and her guests and do not represent the positions of UCSF or any affiliated institution. East Asian Medicine, including acupuncture and herbal medicine, is a licensed healthcare profession and is not a substitute for care from your physician or other qualified medical provider. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, contact emergency services immediately. Always consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new health practice, supplement, or herbal protocol. Individual results vary. Nothing discussed on this podcast creates a patient-practitioner relationship.

Dr. Jen Ashby brings on Dr. Thalia Kazakos Omar, L.Ac. — acupuncturist, doctor of Chinese medicine, founder of Muse Medicine in New York — for the conversation the beauty industry would rather you not have: your skin is not a surface problem.

They start with the East Asian medicine face map and immediately complicate it. Under-eyes are kidney, the forehead is liver, the jawline is hormonal — except the chin is also reproductive, the nasolabial folds are colon, and by minute nine Thalia has cheerfully shown that no single map is diagnostic on its own. What she offers instead is how a clinician actually reads a face: quality over region, patterns over pins.

WHAT WE GET INTO

• The face map, region by region — and why regions are clues, not conclusions

• Reading quality before region: oil as dampness, redness as heat, thinning as deficiency

• Upright qi, sagging, and why skin that loses tone is where lines set

• Teen acne, androgens, and the "wood era" of life

• The luteal phase: fiber, blood sugar, lighter products, damp-and-hot foods

• Fascia, lymph, and the upper-body training nobody connects to their face

• Over-exfoliating, "acne-safe" claims, and the over-drying trap

• Pregnancy glow and melasma: one hormone flood, two constitutions

• Postpartum blood deficiency, hair loss, and real replenishment

• What needling does to scars, including surgical ones

• Gut permeability, and the gut–skin axis both directions

• Jen's late-onset eczema and the year of guacamole that caused it

FEATURED

The Energy Prescription: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science for Thriving Through Menopause (Wiley) — Jen's book. Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

Oliva Flora — botanical skincare powered by olive oil: https://www.olivaflora.com/

FIND THALIA

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Telehealth for herbs and lifestyle coaching is available subject to state licensing — start with her contact form.

FIND JEN

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DISCLAIMER

The information shared on Ovary Acting is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed are those of Dr. Jennifer Ashby and her guests and do not represent the positions of UCSF or any affiliated institution. East Asian Medicine, including acupuncture and herbal medicine, is a licensed healthcare profession and is not a substitute for care from your physician or other qualified provider. In a medical emergency, contact emergency services immediately. Always consult your provider before beginning any new health practice, supplement, or herbal protocol. Individual results vary. Nothing discussed here creates a patient-practitioner relationship.

Dr. Jen Ashby sits down in her living room with Oli Mittermaier — co-founder and director of patient care at CIT Clinics, and, in full disclosure, her husband.

Jen asks the questions most people are too polite to ask: if it's a horse tranquilizer, how are people dancing on it? What actually happens in a session? And why does Oli, who makes his living giving people ketamine, open his TEDx talk by saying the ketamine isn't the answer?

What follows is a plain-language tour of how ketamine is used clinically — dosing, screening, environment, and the integration work Oli argues is at least half of it — plus why the hormonal transitions of perimenopause and menopause put so many women in the population these clinics see.

WHAT WE GET INTO

• Why dose is the whole story on "horse tranquilizer" — sub-anesthetic dosing, titrated to the person
• Set and setting as the intervention, not the decoration: why a rave and a clinic are opposites
• Oli's argument that the session is half the work, and what integration actually means
• "I know what you don't want — but what do you want?" The question he asks every new patient
• Self-directed positive neuroplasticity, and turning temporary states into lasting traits
• NMDA, glutamate, and the window afterward when the brain is primed to rewire
• Routes of administration, what's off-label, and what insurance covers
• Why hormonal transitions put so many women in these clinics — and what this does not treat
• Chronic pain: where it may help, and where it plainly won't
• What treating veterans taught him about everybody else
• No Shortcuts, the labyrinth on the cover, and ten non-negotiables

FEATURED The Energy Prescription: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science for Thriving Through Menopause (Wiley) — Jen's book. Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

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Five weeks after brain surgery, Dr. Jen Ashby takes both chairs — interviewer and interviewee. Her Chiari malformation type I, the decompression surgery, and the recovery she hadn't planned for: a long medication list, an ER detour, and coming off narcotics. Plus the gratitude that cracked her open, and the question she's still sitting with.

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5 KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Chiari malformation type I is structural, and it can be progressive — exertion headache, one-sided fullness, dizziness, no more impact sports.
2. Fear and excitement sit at the same intensity. She used hypnotherapy to point that intensity toward possibility.
3. Say the scary thing out loud to your care team. Telling her anesthesiologist what she feared changed her whole surgery day.
4. The incision wasn't the hard part. The medications — and coming off them — were what she hadn't planned for.
5. Gratitude and reckoning arrived together, with the Stoic virtues as a working roadmap.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 START

01:10 – What Chiari malformation type I is, and her symptoms

01:50 – The surgery: suboccipital decompression, duraplasty, C1 laminectomy

03:10 – Prep, and hypnotherapy to turn fear into excitement

04:50 – "The morning of, I was a mess"

05:55 – The anesthesiologist who actually listened

07:10 – Waking up to "Mama, you're done"

09:15 – Five days in the hospital, and a long medication list

11:30 – How her community and her kids showed up

12:35 – The part nobody warned her about: the ER

14:35 – Recognizing narcotic withdrawal, and owning it

18:20 – What she planned for vs. what actually got her

21:40 – The Stoics, and "who do I want to be when I grow up?"

🔗 CONNECT

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Email: [email protected]

RESOURCES

1. The Energy Prescription: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663
2. Chiari malformation type I: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/chiari-malformation-type-i
3. Ryan Holiday: https://ryanholiday.net/books-courses/
4. The Hoffman Institute: https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/

Something different this week. Jen is taking a short beat to rest and recover before the next new episode — she's doing beautifully, and a proper update is coming in the next few weeks. In the meantime, a conversation many of you haven't heard: Dr. Jennifer Ashby as a guest on Simply Walk The Talk, hosted by Joshua J. Holland — trainer, holistic health coach, and author of The Awareness Shift. It's one of the most complete explanations of the Epic Eight she's ever given.

1. The Epic Eight are the foundation. Six essentials — diet, hydration, sleep, breath work, constitutionally appropriate movement, gut health — plus two practices: daily joy and awe, and tools for not embodying stress.
2. Prenatal qi is finite; postnatal qi is replenishable. Prenatal qi (kidney jing) governs growth and aging and is appropriately drawn on for emergencies, surgery, childbirth — but can't be paid back.
3. Self-care is a responsibility, not selfish behavior. Selfish is when the benefit stops at the tip of your own nose.
4. All effort counts. Good health shouldn't be bougie.
5. Two myths worth retiring. Acupuncture doesn't have to hurt — Jen practices Japanese-style needling, and you can ask any practitioner their technique.

Plus: what feet reveal about self-care, toe yoga and balance, and Jen's fourth exercise category — yin exercise, movement that gives back more than you put out.

00:00 Why this week is a featured archive share

00:37 Josh welcomes Dr. Jen Ashby — from a client's home

04:00 Where the Epic Eight came from

06:30 Translating qi and yin/yang into plain English

12:00 The Epic Eight, listed — foundations before fads

20:30 Josh's five pillars, The Awareness Shift

23:30 Self-care vs. selfish behavior

27:00 Scholarships, free resources, all effort counts

37:00 Josh on his late father

45:00 Four types of exercise — and yin exercise

47:30 Foot health, toe yoga, balance

51:00 Prenatal vs. postnatal qi

59:00 Acupuncture doesn't have to hurt

61:00 Orthopedic vs. constitutional acupuncture

67:00 Everything affects everything

Podcast: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com/ Website: https://www.joshuajholland.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuajholland/ Book, The Awareness Shift: https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Shift-Unearth-Pillars-Wellness/dp/1953153690

Website: https://www.drjenniferashby.com/ Newsletter: https://www.drjenniferashby.com/newsletter-sign-up Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjenashby/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjenashby Book — The Energy Prescription: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

A short, direct solo follow-up to Dr. Jennifer Ashby's conversation with Calista Wilson about parenting a neurodivergent child. Nobody hands you a manual when you become a parent — but most of us pick up a phantom pamphlet anyway: milestones, a rough script for how this is supposed to go. Then you have a kid who didn't read it. Jen speaks straight to the parent in that gap, with the sentence she says nobody said clearly enough when she needed it.

1. "There's nothing wrong with you or your child. There is something different about your child." Those aren't the same sentence — and the gap between them is where most of the suffering lives.
2. You're allowed to grieve, and what you're grieving is an imagined future, not your child. Your child is right there, whole. Grieve the picture quietly, privately, without guilt — it doesn't mean you love the actual kid any less.
3. The exhaustion is real, and it isn't a sign you're doing it wrong. It's the cost of constant translation: reading a different emotional language, anticipating sensory landmines nobody else sees, advocating in rooms full of professionals. Real labor deserves real rest, not a pep talk about gratitude.
4. You become fluent in a system that wasn't built for your kid — IEPs, 504 plans, waitlists, acronyms you never wanted. The professionals know the research. You know your kid. Trust that.
5. Averages are not verdicts. Developmental timelines describe a population, not your particular, unrepeatable child. Sideways progress still counts. Find your people — even one parent who gets it — and let your child see you delight in them, not just manage them.

00:00 Welcome + why this week is a follow-up to the Calista Wilson episode 00:35 The phantom pamphlet: the manual nobody hands you 01:20 When your kid doesn't read it — and the cereal-aisle meltdown that isn't about discipline 01:55 Nothing is wrong; something is different 02:12 The grief nobody prepares you for 03:00 Take the picture down and rebuild it 03:30 The exhaustion is real: constant translation 04:33 IEPs, 504s, waitlists & becoming the advocate 05:05 The professionals know the research — you know your kid 05:30 Averages are not verdicts; sideways still counts 06:00 Find your people 06:30 Delight in them, don't just manage them 07:01 You are not failing 07:30 Wrap-up + go watch the Calista Wilson episode

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1. The companion episode — Calista Wilson on parenting a neurodivergent child.
2. The Energy Prescription (book) — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

Dr. Jennifer Ashby talks with her friend Calista Wilson — a former fashion stylist turned writer, advocate, and "proud autism mama" — about parenting a child whose arrival sent her life on an unexpected one-eighty. Calista describes the mother-knowing she felt from the first minutes, a year of being dismissed through the pandemic, the fifteen-minute visit that finally produced the word autism, and the turn: her son Ransom, a self-described "scientist of everything," and why she believes neurodivergent kids may be exactly where evolution is pointing.

The Energy Prescription — Dr. Jennifer Ashby's new Wiley book, ancient wisdom and modern science for thriving through menopause. Out October 20th. Please buy AND review it. 👉 Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

Women's Lib — a non-hormonal daily libido tincture for women navigating midlife stress and low desire. 👉 https://womens-lib.com/ Oliva Flora — woman-owned Santa Barbara olive-oil botanical skincare, clean and European-made. 👉 https://www.olivaflora.com/

1. Trust the mother-knowing — and advocate even when you're brand-new and everyone's reassuring you. Calista sensed her son was different from the first minutes (he calmed the instant they put a diaper on him — containment as security). For a year, doctors and pandemic Zoom visits said he was fine.
2. The road to diagnosis is a fight, and the system makes you start over. It took an in-person visit to hear "autism" in fifteen minutes. At three, early intervention hands you to the school system — new waitlists, new assessments. Full scaffolding wasn't in place until he was five or six.
3. The spectrum is a wheel, not a line. Think color wheel, not "high to low functioning." A child can be very capable in one area and need intense support in another — and you can be neurodivergent without meeting the criteria for autism.
4. Chronic caregiving stress lands in the body — secure your own oxygen mask first. Years of restraining her son during meltdowns left Calista with radiating neck and arm pain.
5. Grieve the life you imagined, then meet the magic. The grief isn't for the child — it's for the picture of motherhood you carried.

00:00 Welcome + meet Calista Wilson

03:10 The mother-knowing: "laid in my arms like a grenade"

05:35 Dismissed for a year through the pandemic

09:30 "I think it's autism" in fifteen minutes

11:15 Aging out into the school system; years to full scaffolding

15:10 The spectrum is a wheel, not a line

16:30 Rigidity, priming & no spontaneity

22:30 The grief of the unexpected life

24:00 How the body keeps the score

26:35 Daily rituals that sustain her

29:35 Isolation — grieve, then see the magic

36:45 Meet Ransom: engineering, Greek mythology & the body as a machine

43:25 Three things families should take away

46:00 Call us, check on us, invite us

Dr. Jen Ashby — Website: https://www.drjenniferashby.com/ · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjenashby/ · YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjenashby

This week Dr. Jennifer Ashby does something different — she shares the TEDx talk she gave a few years ago. Raised alongside an elephant, lion cubs, bears, wolves, and dozens of other animals, Jen learned early that the energy of every living thing moves in a natural cycle of balance, harmony, and healing — and she spent 30+ years in East Asian Medicine turning that lesson into something usable. She makes the case that your physical energy is the base of all your health, explains the two kinds of energy that run it, and gives you eight daily guidelines to protect them. She closes on the balance she saw on safari: we, too, are nature.

The Energy Prescription — Dr. Ashby's new Wiley book — turns this talk's framework and eight guidelines into a daily system for thriving through perimenopause and menopause. Out October 20th. 👉 Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663 (No sponsor read this episode.)

1. Your physical energy is the base of all your health, and you have two kinds. Prenatal energy is finite — you're born with it and can only spend it. Postnatal energy is infinite — replenished daily if you participate.
2. It's rarely one single thing. Wrist pain becomes shoulder pain, then neck pain, then anxiety and lost sleep. The body is one system working toward homeostasis.
3. The Epic Eight, from the TEDx stage
4. You'll feel stress; the skill is not embodying it. Sort true threats from the rest — a deadline is not a tiger. Jen's starter: MBSR by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
5. We, too, are nature. Left alone, nature is brutally but beautifully balanced — animals eat, drink, sleep, breathe, move, poop, play, and don't embody stress longer than survival requires. Return to the basics and you preserve yourself. (Jen's honest caveat: this assumes clean water, food, and housing — she calls it a crime that health is a privilege.)

00:00 Welcome + why this week is different

00:47 The talk begins: energy, balance & a true story

01:20 Growing up among wild animals

03:30 Why one single "fix" rarely works

06:30 Physical energy is the base of all your health

08:30 Prenatal (finite) vs. postnatal (infinite) energy

15:30 The Epic Eight: diet, hydration, sleep, breathing

18:00 Movement, bowel movements, joy, not embodying stress

24:30 One more story: safari in Kenya & Tanzania

26:00 We too are nature + thanks

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1. The Energy Prescription (pre-order) — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663
2. DailyOM — Dr. Ashby's courses — https://www.dailyom.com/instructors/dr-jennifer-ashby

Dr. Jennifer Ashby talks with Grace Kraaijvanger — founder of The Hivery, the Bay Area women's coworking space and inspiration lab — about the restless yearning so many women feel and can't quite name. Grace first felt it at 27, as her dance career was ending; she's felt it in grief and again at 51 as an empty-nester. Out of that "wrestling" came The Hivery and a mission to elevate the voices of women. Together they reframe a woman's whole life as an act of creativity: treating your life like a work of art gives you permission to keep working on it — to experiment, and to not have it all figured out yet.

The Hivery — Grace's women's coworking space, inspiration lab & mentorship community in Mill Valley, CA, plus a digital membership (relaunching this summer) with local chapters. Events open to everyone. 👉 https://www.thehivery.com/ The Energy Prescription — Dr. Jennifer Ashby's new Wiley book turning her whole-body approach into a daily toolbox for thriving through perimenopause and menopause. Out October 20th. 👉 Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394389663

1. Honor the yearning — it doesn't go away. That hard-to-name "wrestling" is information, not a problem to squash. "Pay now or pay later." Honoring it can be as small as writing, talking, or exploring.
2. Treat your life like a work of art — even if you don't feel creative. It gives you permission to experiment with "the clay of your life" and to not know yet. As Martha Graham said, "no artist is ever satisfied."
3. Change usually rides in on a "life-quake." Real reinvention rarely comes when things are smooth — it takes a catalyst: layoff, ageism, caregiving, divorce, loss, or grief. The hard thing becomes the door to "who am I on the other side of this?"
4. Confidence isn't required and readiness is a myth. If you wait to feel ready, you never start. Small actions are big: the only way to write the book is to sit down for the first fifteen minutes.
5. Community is underrated medicine. We try to figure out our next chapter alone and blame the laundry — it's not the laundry, it's the isolation. Creative energy is contagious; doing the work in community is a real intervention.

00:00 Start

04:10 what The Hivery is for

05:30 A dancer from age four

09:45 The yearning at every life stage

15:30 The title lands: Life as Art

17:30 Grief as a creative force

20:15 8,000 women later

24:05 Finding your inner artist when you don't feel creative

28:00 why midlife can be the most powerful chapter

33:05 Invisibility vs. being seen

36:25 Loneliness as a health crisis: community as medicine

46:00 The myth of readiness

48:50 The thing she almost didn't do
54:00 Radically inclusive

Dr. Jen Ashby — Website: https://www.drjenniferashby.com/ · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjenashby/ ·

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjenashby

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Events: https://www.thehivery.com/events