4. It’s OK to Be Vulnerable: A Peek into Olivia’s Mental Health Journey

Meet Krissy, Olivia’s first friend in her travel nursing journey. Krissy is an avid adventurer, living out of a van and hopping on a mountain bike any chance she gets. Life dealt her a crappy hand in her late twenties, but we loved hearing how she persevered in spite of it all. 

 

****We did experience some audio difficulties throughout the recording. Despite Sandy’s awesome job editing around it, Olivia goes a little quiet in the conversation because of this. We didn’t want to keep that from sharing Krissy’s story!

 

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A WandHer celebrity is our guest today. We quite literally wouldn’t be here without her! It’s Sandy’s mom, Kathy! Listen and you’ll quickly understand where Sandy gets her quirky personality from. Kathy shares about life before kids, her mental health, even her go-to karaoke song! This episode is definitely unlike any other!

 

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Welcome to the pod fellow multi passionate girlie, Jessy Sanchez! Jessy is a first generation Latina chasing her passion for outdoor travel photography. She shares her experience growing up in a Mexican household in Chicago, moving to Colorado, and why she feels Latinas need more representation online. 

We hope you enjoy this chat with Jessy, she’s such a sweetheart!

 

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https://ourworldwithjessyphoto.com/

 

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Your girls are reunited in Wisconsin!!!

Get a little update to the chaotic events of our visitation before jumping into a girl chat centered around favorites. In true Sandy and Olivia fashion, we get a little off track multiple times and end up talking about some of our LEAST favorites, too. All in all, these are our *favorite* kinds of girl chats…

 

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Welcome to another episode of WandHer with special guest, Talia! As a mental health therapist who works with women, she jumps right into a very real topic we’ve all experienced…burnout. Tal shares signs and symptoms of burnout, how to combat burnout, and how women can find themselves in the midst of societal expectations.

Talia is such a sweetheart with such an important message! We know you’ll take something away from this chat!

 

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With pregnancy and childbirth being an ongoing topic on the pod, we thought it would be really cool to hear perspectives from women who have already gone through it. This is our first ever episode with not one, but two guests! Deborah Binun, a psychotherapist, birth educator, and author of “The Missing Peace of Childbirth” and Jessica Mayfield, a fellow mom and member of the Tokophobia Facebook support group join us! Both women recount their individual experiences with tokophobia and the empowered feelings they now carry having conquered their phobia of pregnancy and/or childbirth.

 

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LINKS DEBORAH MENTIONED:

1) Ina Mays Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

https://www.amazon.com/Ina-Mays-Guide-Childbirth-Gaskin/dp/0553381156/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=inna+may+gaskin&qid=1700490524&sr=8-1

2) Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Midwifery-Ina-May-Gaskin/dp/1570671044/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=inna+may+gaskin&qid=1700490623&sr=8-2

3) Orgasmic Birth by Debra Pascali-Bonaro

https://www.amazon.com/Orgasmic-Birth-audiobook/dp/B00LGY1DXM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AXFZP40H2JGK&keywords=orgasmic+birth+debra&qid=1700490652&sprefix=orgasmic+birth+debra%2Caps%2C239&sr=8-1

4) And my book! The Missing Peace in Childbirth by Deborah Binun

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=missing+peace+in+childbirth&i=audible&crid=33C4CTL6RPUPM&sprefix=missing+peace+in+childbirth%2Caudible%2C229&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

Social Media -

Personal Page: Deborah Binun

My Facebook Group,is 'Birth Free - Birth with confidence Ease and Peace of Mind': https://www.facebook.com/groups/birthfree

International Networking Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1062721948305655/

Instagram: deborah.binun_birthfree

Holistic Networking: Root Connections (Finchley) - FB Page tbc!

Email: info@birthfree.com

Website: www.birthfree.com

Tokophobia Support Network (Facebook Group):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokophobiasupportnetwork/ 

 

Resources that helped Jessica:

Instagrams:

• Trusting_birth 

• Sacred.earth.motherhood 

• Badassmotherbirther (TW: birth photos) - also runs what looks like an excellent online class 

• Thepositivebirthcompany 

• Doingitathome 

• Birthwithoutfear 

• Thebirthnurse

• Painfreebirth 

• Yourwildbirth 

Books 

• Ina May “Guide to Childbirth”

• Alexia Leachman “Fearless Birthing

Podcasts 

• Fear free childbirth 

• Birthful 

• Happy homebirth 

• Built to birth 

• Evidence based birth (good website too)

• Taking back birth

• Doing it at Home

• The Birth Hour

 

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Olivia’s oldest best friend, Mady, joins the podcast for this chaotic episode! Sit back and be transported to the mind of a preteen girl as we recount “The Incident:” the traumatic (now hilarious) way we bounded as new friends. Peeing our pants is only the half of it…

 

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A big WANDERful welcome to a special guest, Lauren Roerick! Lauren is an avid outdoor enthusiast with the newly dubbed title of being the first woman from North America to complete the Hexatrek (an over 400 mile/3034 kilometer route in France)! She gushes about her journey but also shares about her life pre backpacking……as a practicing mormon.

 

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We were having too much fun with the girlfriend hours, so one hour grew into two! Welcome to part 2 of our “woowoo” chat. Sandy and Olivia share their opinions and real-life stories involving things like UFOs, ghosts, spirits, and more!

 

(If you enjoyed these girlfriend hour episodes, please let us know! We love sharing women’s empowerment topics, but these chats are a more lighthearted break from the heavier chats. We’d love to share more in the future, if listeners enjoy!)

 

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Welcome to an episode unlike any other! Us girls, Sandy and Olivia, are giving listeners a real glimpse into our real friendship conversations- with a twist- we’re chatting all things “woo-woo.” We’re touching on topics like horoscopes, therapy exercises, sourdough, crystals, yoga, and more!

 

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