Barbara discusses her boundary-pushing mother, dental trauma, finding empathy for her parents and their own childhood traumas, and finally finding her way out of CS. Below are some resources Barbara would like to share that were helpful to her:

Books:

Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters by Susan Forward

• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

• Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body by Jo Marchand

• Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich

• Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal by Donna

Jackson Nakazawa (and her IG)

• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD

• Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed,

Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenberry

• All three books by Dr. Jen Gunter - The Vagina Bible, Menopause Manifesto, and Blood (and her

Substack and IG)

Podcasts:

Unbiased Science (also a FB page)

Science VS

America Dissected

Emancipate Your Mind