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What happens when a woman spends years swallowing her truth, suppressing her emotions, and carrying everyone else?

In this episode of Coochie Business® Podcast, Dr. Abigail sits down with Dee Manuel Cloud for a powerful, layered conversation about authenticity, trauma, stress, and the real cost of self-abandonment.

Dee shares how childhood wounds, people-pleasing, secrecy, and living out of alignment shaped her life and health. Together, she and Dr. Abigail explore the connection between suppressed emotion and disease, the role of chronic stress in Black women’s health, and what it means to stop abandoning yourself in the name of being “strong.”

This conversation moves through family history, breast cancer, intergenerational trauma, epigenetics, spirituality, communication, boundaries, and the healing power of telling the truth.

They also talk about:

• why stress is not just uncomfortable, but potentially deadly
• how authenticity can function like medicine
• why Black women must stop overperforming to their own detriment
• what it looks like to choose peace on purpose
• how pleasure, oxytocin, and self-expression may be part of the healing too

If you have ever felt unseen, unheard, overextended, or afraid to say what you really need, this episode is for you.

Resources mentioned in the episode

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Dee Manuel Cloud (www.deemanuelcloud.com)

• Complimentary POP (Peace on Purpose) Session booking link provided by Dee https://thriveonpurpose.as.me/POPSession 
• Social handle: @iamdeemanuelcloud on Instagram, where she describes herself as a two-time breast cancer survivor and empowerment coach. 

Books

• When the Body Says No by Dr. Gabor Maté — official book page describes it as an exploration of how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. https://drgabormate.com/book/when-the-body-says-no/ 
• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins — official page frames it as a guide to stop managing other people’s opinions, drama, and expectations so you can focus on your own life. https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/ 
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Center of the Clock teaching/video by Sean Smith https://youtu.be/XBS-S2RQuyQ?si=yzuCswDsPTWzpV6K 

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