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Dr. Naomi Whittaker joins us to expose what’s really happening inside the fertility and women’s health industries. As a Creighton-trained OBGYN and surgeon, Dr. Whittaker didn’t enter this field because she liked what she saw — she wanted to change it. Her personal story runs very deep: her grandmother died after a C-section in communist Poland, and decades later, Dr. Whittaker found herself confronted with the same unnecessary major abdominal surgery. We talk about the epigenetic roots of endometriosis, the rebranding of infertility as a “disease,” and the urgent need to prioritize safe over merely “effective” interventions.
Dr. Whittaker also reveals the hidden economics of fertility care, everything from insurance reimbursement loopholes to the industry’s total lack of accountability for both maternal and infant mobility and mortality. She shares how women suffering from endometriosis can vet their surgeon, what dignified reproductive care should look like, and offers a compassionate message for women who regret freezing their eggs. For those struggling to conceive, she reminds us that the female drive to nurture and create extends far beyond procreation.
This is an episode for anyone ready to rethink what real women’s healthcare could look like, when it’s grounded in truth, ethics, and humanity.
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Michigan-based female physiologist Sarah shares her journey from being a proudly non-monogamous, sex-positive liberal feminist to a woman reclaiming her body, fertility, and longing for motherhood. Raised by a single mother who helped shape her world view, she built her trauma healing practice based on an ideology that promised freedom but instead delivered disconnection — from men who truly respect women and from her female body.
Sarah opens up about leaving the polyamorous world, witnessing the aftermath of the covid shots in her clinical practice, and facing backlash for simply using the word woman. After years of deprogramming and somatic-based healing, Sarah stands in her truth while continuing to support women of varying ideological beliefs who have been chewed up and spit out by the western medical model, and is ready to conceive for the first time at the age of 44, shedding the lies of overpopulation and climate doom and embracing motherhood as the most radical act of body reclamation.
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What does liberation feel like in the body and how do we know when we’ve mistaken violence or an ideology for freedom? In this episode, Tara Rae Behr shares her journey from an evangelical upbringing, where purity culture and child rearing looked like spanking and lots of shame, to almost leaving psychotherapy to pursue a career in “conscious sex work.” Like many women disentangling themselves from extreme religious upbringings, Tara wondered if there was something healing in re-enacting violence through sex or if liberation could be found by swinging to the opposite end of the spectrum. While confronting the scandals of evangelical leaders like Ted Haggard as well as her own mentorship with a BDSM “therapist,” Tara discovered that both purity culture and liberal pro-prostitution views of the body and sexuality are in fact distortions of true intimacy.
Through MDMA-assisted therapy, Tara began recovering suppressed memories of childhood abuse, leading her to confront her parents and break ties with a BDSM mentor. In this deeply reflective conversation, Tara explores what it means to discern right from wrong outside of dogma, how much of her religious upbringing still informs her moral compass, and how she now envisions sexuality beyond objectification. Tara asks how we can befriend ourselves, reclaim intimacy with our own bodies, and reconnect with the Earth—instead of falling into the abyss of the transhumanist vision of the body as a forever modifiable machine.
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What happens when your conscience and your religion are at war from the time you’re born? In this episode, author of Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims, Yasmine Mohammed shares her harrowing story of growing up under the weight of religious indoctrination. From being told by her mother to promise she would kill non-believers, to being fed what she calls a “diet of Jew hatred,” Yasmine opens up about the everyday brainwashing that shaped her childhood and early womanhood. She describes how Islam demands the abandonment of humanity, and how the internal conflict between conscience and religious doctrine ultimately set her on a path of questioning and, eventually leaving Islam.
We also discuss the rise of antisemitism and defenses of Islam since October 7, the Western liberal insistence that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and the troubling ways third-wave feminism romanticizes submission and abuse. Yasmine offers a candid critique of hijab, and recruitment of young women into Islam in North America and Europe. Yasmine shares her journey from being told the light she loved was “the devil” to now choosing her own guiding light. Yasmine speaks with raw honesty about her relationship with her mother, the accusations of Islamophobia she faces, and her ongoing resistance to brainwashing in all its forms.
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Dr. Tal Croitoru, is one of the only mental health professionals in Israel speaking out about the harms of transgender ideology. Tal, like many others, was sold on the idea that "trans" was simply a continuation of LGB and wouldn't stand a chance making it as an ideology in Israel, due to the religious population that generally values family, tradition, which on the surface seems incompatible with the notion that you can change sex. Well, things have changed in Israel in the last twenty years.
Israelis with "gender claims", as Tal calls them, are being approved for surgical and hormonal interventions with little to no psychological screening. While official numbers are not being released, Tal’s research suggests everyone who asks for “gender affirming care” is approved. Lawsuits over “correct pronoun” use have begun, with courts compelling the use of wrong sex pronouns. Sexual harassment claims have been used against companies and women who use male pronouns for males with gender delusions. Schools are beginning to institute the use of preferred pronouns, and doing so behind the backs of parents. Three males are now imprisoned with women in the (formerly) only women's prison in Israel. All of these violations are happening without any public debate. Tal is determined in her private practice, books and her own youtube channel to bring the truth of this ideology to the people of Israel.
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Dipiti is back to discuss our top 12 red flags to look out for before joining an in-person or online women's community. Want more? Be sure to check out the bonus content available here to Whose Body Is It paid Substack subscribers.
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Today's guest, Kimberly Ann Johnson author of the best selling book The Fourth Trimester, works at the intersection of sex, birth, and trauma. Kimberly entered menopause in 2020 and, just as she had with postpartum and motherhood, began to explore this unique phase of female mammalian life with curiosity and spiritual sensitivity. The standard of perimenopause care -synthetic hormones commonly known as HRT - immediately struck her as out of order with her trust in female physiology. In this episode we examine the accusations of menopausal care negligence not just for refusing HRT, or radical ‘hormone-balancing’ diet regimens, but even down to beauty practices like face yoga and gua sha. Kimberly shares critical analysis of the pathology of women's reproductive life phases and suggests that menopause uninterrupted is the death rehearsal, inviting us to live more biologically.
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At 21, Emily was sure that by getting married and having kids she would more or less wind up living happily ever after. However, her relationship replicated some of her core wounds around growing up in a coercive control environment, and where talks around money were taboo. Emily wanted to leave her marriage, but all she had to her name was her car. In this time, she went back to school and got a degree in Women & Gender studies and with the analysis of Bell Hooks and Angela Davis, and the iron will earned from free birthing her second baby, she was finally ready to leave her abuser. It was only in the divorce process that she realized the full extent of the financial and physical abuse she survived.
Emily began fundraising to help support other mothers fighting for freedom from abusive marriages. Now, she’s turned that into the Mama Wilder Nonprofit. Along the way, she fell in love again with a man who in the truest sense is a protector and provider. This time she may not have had the pure idealism she had in her youth, but she knew that she deserved a redemptive love story, birth, and postpartum. In this episode Emily speaks to the importance of women initiating potentially uncomfortable conversations around prenups, property ownership, and life insurance policies with their partners.
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Natasha Vargas was a journalist, union organizer and classic leftist when she took on the topic of gender ideology. A beat reporter for Out, Jezebel, Vice (among many other leftist publications) she even sympathetically covered the entree of Fallon Fox into women’s MMA (he is the trans-identified male who would later become known for splitting lesbian fighter Tamikka Brents’ skull open). Through her journalism on this topic, as well as following what was happening in women-only colleges, she came to have a critical view of gender, but she hardly planned to make “TERF” content her main focus. After publishing in the American Conservative in 2017, she was canceled and fired from her dream job, as vitriolic lies spread about her online.
It wasn’t until she became a mother in 2021 that she truly peaked in her understanding of the differences between men and women. She is now “in devotion to the dyad,” organizing to protect physiological birth and breastfeeding and organizing against corporations that profit off the separation of mother and baby. Natasha is the founder of the Radical Moms Union, which stands for three things: biological norms over cultural demands, attachment over independence, and the mother-baby dyad. Despite these super pointed core values, her organization still manages to have a very diverse membership and leadership. Natasha’s message is an echo of second-wave feminism that’s the perfect combination of militant and matrifocal.
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In today's episode I speak with my friend Daniella Saar about the terrors of October 7th, the rise in global anti-semitism including the riots on college campuses, the reality of sharing borders with enemy states and the ethical concerns of awarding a so-called "Palestinian Journalist" for photographing murdered Israeli woman, Shani Louk, as her lifeless body was driven to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.
If you're Jewish you've probably been asked "Why don't the Jews in Israel just go back to where they came from?!" Daniella discusses the sheer impossibility of this anti-zionist trope, the reality of descending from Holocaust survivors, and laments the 2024 reality of Israelis to consider where they might hide their children in the face of another on-ground invasion.
Daniella also discusses how her politics have changed since the war, and why she continues to send her son to a school of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith.
Daniella Saar is a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, educator, lactation consultant and poet living in Jaffa, Israel.
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My dear friend Danielle Evans is back again, this time to talk about body hair through the lens of her expertise in nervous system body work. While it may be true that there are more urgent battles than armpit hair, this conversation goes so far beyond surface level talk on self-acceptance and trash talking modern beauty standards. We explore women's desire to remain intact and fully expressed in spite of societal conditioning to become smaller, erase ourselves, and numb out.
Many will argue that shaving is a hygiene practice like clipping your toenails or brushing your teeth, but in actuality, hair removal practices are purely cultural, and have nothing to do with cleanliness. Whether influenced by the commercialized bodies in porn or mass culture, is it any wonder most people have never seen an adult woman’s body unaltered by hair removal? Or that body hair on women is seen as masculine, increasingly becoming associated with “nonbinary” and “trans” identities?
We hope that the ideas presented in this episode challenge you to consider your body hair as more than an aesthetic choice or preference and instead a part of your human physiology- a essential sensory tool for interfacing with your environment.
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Cesareans, breastfeeding struggles, neonatal intensive care, childhood illnesses and daycare have become the norm. The truth is, physiological birth is simpler in our 20s and postpartum care comes with the energy and adventurousness of youth and often the help of grandparents. As a culture we’ve focused solely on the advantages of putting off childbirth until a woman is financially stable, fixed in her goals, and settled with an ideal partner.
Ironically, in our safety obsessed culture, we regard women having babies in their 20s as reckless or naive. We term it “early childbearing,” despite having children in our early 20s historically, actually being delayed. In this episode, Mary Lou Singleton -a wife, grandmother, midwife and nurse practitioner- who has spent over 3 decades witnessing women walk through the portals of birth and motherhood, makes a strong case for why women should start their families in their early 20s. Mary Lou shares her take on TRAD wife culture and offers practical wisdom for women in their 30s and 40s, dating for longterm commitment & family building.
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Today's guest is N3VLYNNN; a multidisciplinary artist, wellness practitioner, and dancer. While working in urban, "progressive" cities, N3VLYNNN was drawn to “queer” art and politics, but it wasn’t long before she began to see things that well, seemed a little weird. For one thing, a man, over six feet tall, who called himself a woman, sexually assaulted her friend.
Well before the peak of gender madness, back in 2013, she made a youtube video called “Transwomen Are Not Female.” The backlash to her foray into gender critical politics was swift and merciless, very nearly wiping her artistic efforts from the internet.
As time went on she noticed “women” were being deleted altogether, even from wellness spaces like community acupuncture. N3VLYNNN’s days of letting it rest and holding space for ‘true trans’ sufferers were coming to an end. She came to understand that transgenderism is a colonial effort, not only in these arts and wellness spaces where women were made to feel privileged and unwelcome, but also in a global sense, where transgenderism is exported to other cultures and indigenous histories distorted or erased.
In 2022 she made another video, this time exploring the stories of black women who were formerly trans-identified. In highlighting black female detransitioners, she was thoroughly deplatformed, with her business and art accounts being locked, deleted or otherwise completely lost to her overnight. Despite this, N3VLYNNN continued to pursue her art, writing and research. In this episode, we dive deep into some of that research, including the push to trans the dead, erasing black women role models like Pauli Murray, who has been lauded as a “nonbinary ancestor.”
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Many of you probably remember Leigh Janet Marshall’s story of childhood trans identification, followed by sterilization and detransition. Leigh is back today for an update on her journey since her appearance on the podcast nearly one year ago.
After the recording, Leigh was met with both heroism and villainization. Peers claimed that she had weaponized her experience to harm 'true trans' sufferers and even condemned her for supposedly using her life experience to ‘fuel right wing extremism.’ The silver lining to the process of sharing her story was the revival of sisterhood in her life but it also came with a difficult period of over-identification with detransition.
Now, she is ‘detransitioning from detransition.’
Leigh reminds us that in politicizing our identities, we remain in our intellect and has written her testimony indulging the overactive, analytical mind in a productive way, while giving her the space to remember that thoughts are not the full truth, and identities are merely waypoints on a lifetime’s worth of shifts and evolution. Through this process of reacquainting with the body, she has also healed from violent panic attacks and disordered eating. Joining ‘the real world,’ in her words, and dropping the stories she held about how others would condemn her for her past, she has made connections ten times over what she lost.
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When nine-year-old Elle found out she was going to be a big sister, she was overjoyed. She helped raise her younger brother and as they grew up, she was happy to act as a support, confidante, and the first-call-in-a-crisis. But when she became pregnant, her brother’s attitude toward his sister changed completely. He never acknowledged her daughter, never wanted to look at or hold her as a baby, and Elle ended up falling out with him. She did not understand why he turned on her until many years later, when her brother called her to let her know that he was ‘a lesbian woman’ now.
He shared that his treatment of her stemmed from his jealousy of her, for one thing he'd never gotten to get his nails done with their mother. Elle began looking into autogynephilia and realized that her brother was living in a porn-sick, sex-obsessed alternate reality. He had quit working and started an OnlyFans, where he dressed up as an underage girl. He spent $14,000 on laser hair removal, plus hormones, and surgeries. He demanded financial support from their mother and let bills pile up until creditors were harassing his parents.
While Elle's parents have extended themselves financially, emotionally and physically to support her brother, finding support for themselves has not been easy in the trans-affirming culture.
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It’s not exactly Millennials' fault that many of us are stuck in extended adolescence. We’re bearing a wound around adulthood that didn’t start with our generation. We’re working under fluorescent lighting instead of under the sun, hustling in the city instead of in the small tribes we evolved from, and striving for the “empowerment” the Spice Girls promised. Endocrine disruptors surround us. We work with screens instead of with our hands. The conveniences of living non-biologically are certainly comfortable, but they come with consequences: we've become soft, immature, our vitality compromised.
Many women in our thirties are rethinking the cultural programming that discouraged us from having our babies at an age that would afford us the energy and resilience to more easily bear the challenges of motherhood, while garnering the support from our own parents. There are plenty of benefits to building up wisdom, life experience, and financial resources before you have kids, but there’s grief too. What happens when we exclusively put our self-worth into our careers or accomplishments instead of embodying the portal of life and death that is our birthright as women?
Today's guest, body worker and poly-vagal nerve practitioner Danielle Evans, helps people heal their nervous system. Danielle shares about her process deprogramming from liberal feminist rhetoric and discusses how the surface of our skin connects to the deepest layers of our nervous system. Danielle reminds us that the body remembers everything from pre-birth to our present moment, and explains how we can self-source safety in our body and quiet the anxious mind.
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Growing up Latter Day Saints, Olivia was held to very strict expectations. The church and homeschooling offered glimmers of women’s spiritual power, but Olivia needed greater freedom of expression. For instance, she chafed at her family’s outpouring of grief when she revealed she was interested in dating women. She tried to be patient with them as they grieved her inevitable separation from them in the afterlife, but she felt rejected. This, along with the restrictions internalized from her childhood, drove her to confuse authentic liberation with the so-called "liberal" ideologies she encountered in adolescence.
It began with RuPaul’s Drag Race. The show seemed misogynist to Olivia, but her friends made it very clear that she’d need to adopt even the most appalling caricatures of womanhood, “trans lesbians” if she wanted to maintain access to her social circle and dating pool. She understood “you either get with this agenda or you die socially,” when she witnessed the ostracism of lesbians who resisted. The logical conclusion of this liberal feminist propaganda was her full indoctrination into another religion, with its own set of patriarchal expectations. Following in the footsteps of her liberal feminist friends, she became a “sugar baby” and started an OnlyFans. Her “manager,” aka her John, soon became her pimp, supplying her with drugs to cope with the effects of being trafficked, all the while filming her degradation for other men to consume. She believed her non-binary identity would somehow protect her from the sexual violence women experience, disassociating from her female body even as men tortured her. It was not until she realized that her choices were exposing not just her, but her girlfriend, to extreme violence, that she knew she had to exit. Olivia has since found her own source of spirituality, bodily integrity, and a reclamation of womanhood through connecting to her matrilineal line and finding the healing power of plants.
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Kristin Hauser joins us today to talk about cultivating female fertility outside of the medical model. She has been working in the fertility space for over ten years, as an acupuncturist and sex and relationship coach. Kristin has seen all manner of fertility issues, from women later in their fertile years, who’ve been working to the point of burn out, to the less talked about, younger women whose cycles were damaged by hormonal birth control. Inventions such as intrauterine insemination, IVF, to surrogacy, are touted by the fertility industry as the best path to motherhood if you don’t conceive within a few months of trying.
As an acupuncturist, Kristin tried to serve women within this model, but soon realized it was out of integrity for her. She encourages women and men to consider their fertility as an extension of creativity, of their physical and spiritual wellbeing, and she uses a variety of methods that never require invasive testing or surgery. In this episode Kristin discusses fertility struggles are a catalyst for sexual reawakening, and how staying out of the mainstream medical model, women can come into motherhood in power.
Kristin's class Restoring Your Fertility and Ovarian Vitality is a great place to start for women who want to truly understand their bodies and improve their fertility with ease and without medical intervention.
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Diagnosed with endometriosis at age 19, Marche was told she would probably never have babies. It was the early 2000s, post women’s liberation and even when Marche found herself expectedly pregnant she considered termination. Before she could decide what she wanted to do, Marche was incorrectly diagnosed with a blighted ovum, and told she’d miscarry. About to start grad school and ridden with grief, Marche took abortifacients, only to find out the day after that she’d been incorrectly diagnosed. A thorough look into Marche’s health history and the ways she was victimized by the medical industry, sets the backdrop for how she became the perfect consumer of the fertility industry.Marche details the dehumanization she experienced during the IUI/IVF process, the tens of thousands of dollars down the drain, the evisceration of love between she and her husband during this time, and how she ultimately shifted her perspective from seeing her attempt to rent her best friend’s womb as camaraderie, to the unjustifiable utilization and commodification of women’s bodies.
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