Her book explores the emotionally charged world of abortion and challenges the shameful and secretive nature of this conversation.

She brings humor to a difficult subject and shares her personal journey, including the intimate stories of women from all walks of life and every age and every socio-economic background.

We start by discussing the moral outrage that so many seem to be embroiled in - inspiring her to write the book. The episode delves into the history of abortion, normalizing it as women’s healthcare and its normalcy in other cultures. We also discuss the political and societal impact of restricting women's reproductive choices, and all of the ways we continue to miss the collective point.

This subject requires self-understanding, opposing perspectives, and is an invitation to embrace our exiled parts for personal revelation and wholeness. They also explore the experiences of clinic staff and the need for empathy and respect when discussing women's experiences.

Listeners are invited to reflect on their own moral outrage and judgments while discovering resources and support for further exploration. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that challenges assumptions and offers hope for healing and transformation and please don’t forget to pick up a copy of her book because it’s a joy to read! Imagine being a fly on the walls inside the clinic- there are so many incredible stories that can help you see through a kaleidoscope of experiences that just might transform your understanding even more!

Topics Discussed:

• The emotionally charged world of abortion
• Challenges in the abortion debate
• The history of abortion and its normalcy in other cultures
• The impact of restricting women's reproductive choices
• Self-understanding and embracing opposing perspectives
• Experiences of clinic staff and the need for empathy and respect
• Rediscovering ancient practices and women's wisdom
• Healing, transformation, and unbecoming from societal expectations
• The secrecy, isolation, and silencing of professionals in abortion care.

Entities Mentioned:

• American Medical Association
• Catholic Church

Patrice is a nurse with 39 years of experience working in a variety of specialties such as critical care, women's health, and geriatrics. After 15 years, she left clinical practice to teach nursing. As an award winning educator at a top ranked university, she found her passion for mentoring new nurses and continues to teach abroad. She recently returned to clinical work and in addition to writing her recently released book, The View from the Clinic: One Nurse's Journey in Abortion Care, she has returned to working in the abortion world supporting post-abortion patients via telemedicine.

Special Guest: Patrice D'Amato.

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Links:

• Website: The View From The Clinic
• Book: The View from the Clinic: One Nurse’s Journey in Abortion Care: D'Amato, Patrice
• Instagram :Patrice D’ Amato (@patricedamato11)
• TikTok: Patrice D’Amato (@patricedamato)
• The Inspired Women Podcast: Abortion From A Nurse’s Perspective Featuring Patrice D’Amato
• Podcast: Soul Nectar Show with Kerri Hummingbird: Holy War for the Womb with Patrice D’Amato

• Listen in as we talk about Sarah’s life growing up as a fat and happy child and what her uncle told her about her weight and her worth.
• Hear about how the fashion industry disregards plus-sized women and how much of the population that actually omits.
• Gain insight into how fat phobia is literally everywhere in our culture and why it’s so important that we start to recognize how we unconsciously perpetuate it.
• Fall in love with Sarah’s fierce rebellion as she shares a story about literally prying her braces off of her own teeth with a pair of pliers and why she was so hell bent to make everyone around her stop trying to make her conform to their standards of beauty.

This woman is a beautiful force to be reckoned with, taking plus-sized to the mainstream without asking for permission. GO SARAH!

Sarah Hamel-Smith aka @thecurvytrini is a New York based TEDx presenter, plus-sized model, storyteller and digital influencer represented by TRUE Model Management. She is the co-Founder of Plus Amplified, an organization dedicated to educating and empowering those who live in plus-sized bodies and serves as a catalyst for cultural and internal shifts towards size equity.

After being body shamed for many years she decided to be one of the people who changes the way beauty is defined in society.

Sarah has worked with several major fashion brands as a model, motivational speaker and influencer including Eloquii, Veronica Beard, Universal Standard and Tommy Hilfiger at Macy’s and has been featured as a model and writer in BTFL Magazine. Sarah has presented at NYU and NYWICI as a subject matter expert in influencer marketing and at FIT as an expert in Plus Size Fashion.

Sarah has been featured on CBS News and Crain’s New York speaking out about the dangers of diet culture and has modeled on Good Morning America and as well as InStyle Magazine as a plus size style icon and featured on Billboards in Times Square for New York Fashion Week.

Links:

• The Curvy Trini - Style, Inspiration & Empowerment
• @thecurvytrini • Instagram photos and videos
• TEDx: Social Media Can Create a More Inclusive Standard of Beauty | Sarah Hamel-Smith
• Plus Amplified
• Rising Star Sarah Hamel-Smith: “At first, people will not understand what you are doing; Do it anyway, don’t worry about other people’s approval” | by Candice Georgiadis | Authority Magazine | Medium
• YouTube - thecurvytrini

Liz and I decided to riff on what is currently happening in our country and why it seems so much easier to blame, shame, numb, and deflect, and why it is so important that we start working on the unresolved and unhealed wounds within.

We hope that this episode will normalize the human mess with some intersecting conversations that may reveal more awareness and even normalize the healing process.

• In this episode, we define "the mess” as something we either try to hide or won’t hold ourselves accountable for because we don’t want to look at our own shadows or unhealed wounds.
• We have a choice to make; we can choose to be willfully ignorant of the root causes of our disruption, of our disparity, and our needs to heal, but in doing so, we not only do great harm within ourselves, we're actually harming the collective energy and creating a bigger mess.
• Part of the journey of enlightenment and consciousness, however, requires us to overcome this struggle.
• Nobody really wants to talk about hard things. We tend to disassociate from difficult situations and to avoid challenging topics that make us feel vulnerable.
• We don’t often think of our ignorance as being willful, but as Liz mentions in this episode, it’s a choice to continue to choose suffering.
• Many of us are hiding a mess in our lives behind a prettier picture we show the world.
• Addiction, family dysfunction, and trauma are part of a perpetuated generational cycle if we don’t actively choose to break that cycle.
• If you have grown up this way, you may not have a healthy model for behaving differently, but we have access to healthy models these days if we seek them.
• Often we create enemies outside ourselves when the real war is the one we are having on the inside. Our refusal to look at ourselves as the original source of our own suffering is what contributes to many of the isms.
• When we talk about creating more unity in the world, we first have to look at our own unity within ourselves. If we are fractured inside, we must be accountable for healing ourselves.
• Qanon is perhaps an example of a movement of people who are hiding their own white supremacy, racism, sexism, unresolved rage, and fear, and are refusing personal accountability for the way things are in their own lives. Instead, they blame outside forces or direct their attention on fantastic distractions so that they don’t have to look at their own stuff.
• We are all in an ongoing state of healing, but we will not get anywhere unless we take inventory of our own personal mess and ask for help and support where we need it.

Links:

• Book: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering: Nhat Hanh, Thich
• The Revelation Project Episode 52: Sage Polaris - Work, Life, Love
• The Soul Energy
• Facebook:The Soul Synergy - Synergistic Healing & Divine Connection
• Instagram :The Soul Synergy 2020 (@soulsynergy2020)