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Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
12 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
4 episodes
since June 28, 2026
episodic

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A contemplation on hormonal birth control, patriarchy, and spirituality. I spent seventeen years on hormonal birth control for endometriosis and the last five years off. Now, I am pondering a return to it, while waiting on a specialist for bowel endometriosis. This entry moves through that whole t…

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Contemplations and Hyperfixations comes from inside the unresolved, not the other side of it. It's a show about the raw, messy middle of illness and becoming, where there are no answers yet, only the existential loops we don't usually say out loud. It moves through chronic illness, mysticism, queer…

Still Becoming

Content note: this episode discusses chronic illness, death, and mortality, including a moment of reflecting on times when being alive feels unbearable. A contemplation on chronic illness, grief, and the longing to live. At 36, I received emergency surgery for a heart block that required a pacemak…
Content note: this episode includes me breaking down while recording and frank talk about chronic illness, pain, and graphic medical/GI symptoms. Reflections on chronic illness, neurodivergence, and finding kinship across five centuries. I sat down to tell you about Teresa of Ávila, a 16th-century …
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