And Yet

Is your doctor listening to you? Actually listening? In today’s world of medicine, many patients aren’t being heard. In fact, many are being completely dismissed, invalidated, and sometimes even insulted. Especially when it comes to women’s health, doctors sometimes don’t take women seriously. The doctor-patient dynamic here has damaged people, even to the point of causing diseases to get worse. This is Angela Allen’s experience. Angela is a psychiatric ER nurse based out of North Carolina. So far in her life, she’s had quite the battle with endometriosis. She’s had over five surgeries and a multitude of doctors totally reject her plea for help, treatment, and care. Even as a nurse, she, too, has struggled with the cold doctor-patient power dynamic. Today, we talk about our overall experiences with endometriosis. The three of us each take turns telling stories about our surgeries, treatments, total rejections by doctors, and the trauma that is associated with this cycle as a result. Angela specifically talks

Sometimes, when you make a mistake or say the wrong thing, it sticks with you. I mean, it really sticks with you. Sometimes, that can stick with you for days, weeks, or even years. Even just thinking about it can make your face turn red and your chest constricts due to all the anxiety, guilt, and general discomfort around the whole thing. These feelings can spark the desire to run away and avoid this discomfort at all costs. This is especially true with conversations centered around race: where white people with good intentions make mistakes, get defensive, and avoid the discomfort. On today’s episode, we talk with Joy Fennel, who handles these difficult and uncomfortable conversations with absolute grace. Together, we talk about where we have unintentionally participated in “white feminism,” and left others behind. We debrief our mistakes, confront our own white privilege, and learn to grow from there. Get ready to get uncomfortable with us and grow through this process. Some Questions I Ask: Do you oft

Did you know that 80-90% of female-bodied individuals suffer from PMS?Did you know that actually suffering from PMS isn’t how life needs to be for those who experience periods?This episode of And Yet Podcast is about empowering women and female-bodied people to use their menstrual cycle as an asset rather than a hindrance on their quality of life. Lara Briden is here to share some of her wisdom and experience with helping her patients progress from accepting period discomfort as a normal life experience to helping them mostly—if not completely—eradicate all PMS symptoms.Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor with over 20 years of experience. Her mission is to have easy, symptomless periods, and join the worldwide period revolution. Her book Period Repair Manual outlines practical solutions to improving PMS and all unpleasant symptoms related to the menstrual cycle.Right now, conventional medicine tends to brush off many period problems, telling patients that it’s “normal.” Lara Briden, however, says menstrual h

Dr. Nathalie Martinek is a well-being mentor, coach and educator for physicians and healthcare professionals. She is originally from Toronto but she now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Nathalie has a PhD in developmental biology and she is also the founder of a new app called Safe Space. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When was the last time you felt truly rested and ready to tackle the day ahead? In today’s demanding culture, “business” has turned into “busyness.” Most of the time, people are so busy—doing everything from just trying to make ends meet, run their businesses, please their bosses—that it seems impossible to find authentic connection.Many people today suffer from this loss of connection or have even contrived a false sense of connection. Karlee Fain calls this phenomenon “popular isolation.”Karlee Fain is actually the sister of one of our hosts: Kelsey. Karlee is a celebrity health and life coach, author, and public speaker. She is known for being the most rested person in any room that she walks into. Karlee understands what it takes to be well rested, which includes combating the catalyst for popular isolation. Get ready to learn more about the universal symptoms of popular isolation, how to combat them, and how to take steps toward a life of self-nourishment. Some Questions I Ask: ·    &

It Didn’t Start with You Show NotesMark is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. He leads workshops, hospitals, conferences and teaching centers around the world.  Mark is the author of the book It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle.Timestamped Notes[00:37] There are fears or anxieties that strike people when they reach a certain age or an event or depression that people never get to the bottom of and symptoms that really come from nowhere. What Mark is learning is the symptoms could actually be the residues of trauma in a person's family history that was biologically inherited from parents or grandparents or even great grandparents. Epigenetics therefore gets into what going there. There are numerous examples of trauma like when a spouse cheats, parents fight or someone dies. Trauma changes people. Any kind of trauma can create an epigenetic change. When trauma occurs it causes a chemical change in the DNA and this can change

Sally works at a clinic that provides in-clinic abortion services. On the days when she is handling administrative duties, Sally will usually be signing prescriptions, checking over charts and making sure patients are being seen in the appropriate way and getting to the right providers. She also provides on-call advice to patients who are post-abortion or maybe coming for their appointment soon. She answers all their concerns and explains what's normal and what's not.Time Stamped Notes[0:58] For abortions, Sally has seen people of all ages. Not very many of the patients will be under 16, but once in a while Sally will attend to patients under 16. Most patients will fall in the age bracket of 16 to 47 years. The patients will be from all backgrounds, religions and races. Sally notes that 59% of women who receive abortions already have children. She believes that mothers are more likely to seek an abortion just because they kind of understand the implications of what raising a child is for your community and fo

We feel like crap when taking the pill.We’re not alone in this experience of feeling like crap when taking hormonal birth control pills.We’re not against hormonal birth control, but we are against using the pill as a blanket solution. There’s well-documented gender bias in the medical field, and it’s time for doctors to really start listening to women.Over the last decade, for the first time, statistics for hormonal birth control for millennial women has actually decreased because of the rough side effects that have become commonplace. In other words, women aren’t putting up with this anymore.On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Jolene Brighten. She is one of the pioneers in menstrual health reform in the United States. She’s a functional medicine naturopathic medical doctor, founder of Rubus Health, and is globally recognized as the leading expert in post-birth control syndrome.Our conversation covers everything from personal experiences of doctors not paying attention to us in the clinic, and personal exper

The And Yet Podcast; the debut series hosted by Siena and Kelsey about the intersection of culture and health. No topic is left undiscussed - they go there! Coming soon to your favourite podcast player. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.