FreeBody Podcast

Today's season 3 finale episode is a recap of Paton's egg retrieval surgery (while sick), post-op, recovery, and reflection. She gets news about how many mature eggs were frozen, how long recovery should take, and she shares what this experience has meant to her and what she's learned about herself and her body. Thank you for all your support and lovely messages! Please subscribe, share, rate, and review! Feel free to reach out on our instagram @freebodypodcast with any thoughts and questions. We'll be back soon. Until next time... be well.

Three more nights until egg retrieval day. This episode is all over the place-- trigger warning: Paton talks about the number of eggs the doctor that morning told her to expect. She also goes into an impromptu film review segment. High highs and low lows. She also answers some questions from the community on our instagram @freebodypodcast. Follow over there to watch the vlogs that accompany these podcasts. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!

Today, Paton answers your questions about the cost of egg freezing, shares an update from her doctor on Day 9, and finally discovers her mistake! If you have any questions, tidbits, or comments you want on this podcast, please follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast and send a DM. Please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review!

Today we get an update on the estimated schedule for extraction day, Paton makes another mathematical error, and it's Thanksgiving! Paton also answers your questions about how the extraction process works before getting into Day 8. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast and send a DM. We'd love to hear from you.

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

Today Paton answers questions from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and two VIP guests show up during the evening round of shots! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and a VIP guest shows up during Day 6! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

On today's episode, Paton answers a couple questions she received from @freebodypodcast on instagram, before jumping into Days 3 & 4. If you have questions, thoughts, insight, please follow us on instagram and reach out!

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us all to own our vulnerability as the strength that it is while shedding a light on fertility and gynecological healthcare. You can find her videos on instagram @freebodypodcast, released in tandem with each episode. Please subscribe, share, and review!

Today you’ll hear Kristie Larson’s body story and her journey to becoming a personal trainer as well as a fitness and intuitive eating coach in NYC. She is the founder of The Feel Good Bunch, an online community of women who are super into fitness and super not into diet culture. We connect on our mutual love for fitness, processing trauma, and Jim Carrey, and we also go into intuitive eating, how exercise can help change certain societal narratives, and how life changing it is to consistently listen to your body’s signals. She is hilarious, grounded, a very impressive teacher, and has packed a TON of wisdom into one episode.

Find more about Kristie on her website www.kristielarson.com and on tiktok and IG @kristielarson_

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This is the second episode of our current bonus series about women's healthcare and abortion rights. Today's guest is Amy Dannenmueller, an actress and activist born in Wisconsin and forged in the fires of New York City. She shares her personal experiences with Planned Parenthood and the life saving care she received there, as well as her work as a volunteer escort at abortion clinics in the New York Area. 

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Today, trauma informed wellness coach Amanda Balarezo talks about how she discovered the nourishing systems of nutrition, somatic experiencing, and co-regulation that she practices with her clients and her children to heal their bodies. Diagnosed with Lyme, OCD, anxiety, and living with what she later discovered was PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep Infections) and more, Amanda thought she’d always be living a life of managing symptoms. And after witnessing her own mother’s life of chronic illness and disease, she knew she had to make significant changes in order to have a different fate. Today she is symptom free. This is how she got there.

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Last week we dropped part one of somatic healer and therapist Yarrow Bucan’s body story, and today, part two will pick up right where we left off. There is a reason I split this episode up into two parts— there's a lot to digest here. Today will be a crash course in the healing modalities that have helped Yarrow herself and led her to create the methods she uses directly with her clients today. We talk about polyvagal theory and what cultivating inner safety looks like when it comes to the body. Yarrow also talks about spiritual bypassing and how life changing processing her childhood trauma and reparenting herself has been— when we bypass that work, our body creates dis-ease (disease) from all the emotional stress that is still stored in the body. Clearly this episode is a doozy, it’s genius, it’s what could change the whole world into a more compassionate and connected place, and it all starts with cultivating inner safety so your body, soul, and mind can feel safe to be free. The body knows! So grab something cozy to sip perhaps, sit back, and get ready to have your mind blown. Please subscribe, share, and review and follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast

Find out more about Yarrow and what she's offering on instagram @healwithyarrow or her website yarrowbucans.com

In this episode powerhouse composer and performer Molly Joyce shares her body story. Today she talks about having an impaired left hand and how her relationship to her disability has shaped and defined her as a musical artist ever since she was seven years old. She'll guide you through her journey towards not only claiming her disability as a part of her identity, but also seeing her disability as possibility rather than limitation. Her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the Vermont, New World, New York Youth, Pittsburgh, Albany, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, as well as the New Juilliard, Decoda, and Contemporaneous ensembles. Check out more at her website: mollyjoyce.com. *An excerpt from Joyce’s piece “Form and Flee” is played in this episode. 

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Lee Edward Colston II is an actor, teacher, and writer from Philly. Most recently his writing for season 4 of Fargo has received critical acclaim, and his beautiful play, The First Deep Breath, opened to rave reviews in Chicago almost exactly a year ago. Today, we talk about trauma and how it lives in the body, about Lee’s work as a Corrections Officer and the body language of lying, as well as lessons learned while navigating racist institutions. You can learn more about Lee by following his instagram @thatsmrcolston2u. 

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Chelsea Lee Williams is an actor and singer working on Broadway in NYC. While transitioning shows, and soon after dealing with Broadway's shut down due to the pandemic, she dealt with working through severe pain caused by fibroids. In this episode, she shares her body story starting with her childhood in football-loving-Miami and her physical training at various arts conservatories (including  The Juilliard School for drama), all the way through her recovery from fibroid surgery today. You can find Chelsea on instagram @chelsea_in_hd or her website www.chelsealeewilliams.com. If you want to hear more body stories please subscribe and share! You can also follow us on instagram: @freebodypodcast 

 Today's guest, Sam Given, is an incredible singer, actor, and fitness instructor in New York City. We dive into conversations about body image, finding community and balance through yoga and exercise, and battling  the external pressures of the performing arts industry. CW: eating disorders. You can find Sam on insta @samgivensing and at his website www.samgiven.com. If you want to hear more body stories please subscribe and follow us on instagram @FreeBodyPodcast !