A podcast by KimBoo York, exploring the life of a woman a few years shy of 50 years old. Warning: SJW, feminist, queer, socialist, librarian, and eldergoth. Podcasts are not scripted. I have decided to settle on updating with new episodes every other week. Pls feel free to msg me w/ topic ideas/su…
What does it mean to grow up? Heck if I know. Links discussed in podcast: EMDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing The Body Keeps the Score (book): https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748 Music by The Underscore Orkestra, used with permission via the Free Music Archive.
Back again! After a year's hiatus, here is another episode. This one is about perimenopause, menopause, and the myths we create around growing old. Intro music by The Underscore Orkestra, used with permission via the Free Music Archive.
On the (lack of) value in being "nice" -- what was important to me as a young woman, I view now as a stumbling block to authenticity. Maybe you just have to be old to see it that way.
The eve of the 2016 presidential election is here, and I get sentimental about my Mother and the world she lived in. She would be three years older than Hillary Clinton, if Mother had lived.
Talking about beauty, and expectations of youth for older women. Also Keely, my new doggie!!!! (see episode picture!)
More about the Big M - menopause and just how little women know about our bodies. Referenced links: 1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/3d-model-clitoris-sexual-revolution-sex-education-womens-sexuality 2. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/08/brain-science-vagina-heralds-sexual-revolution
In which I talk about the dreaded M word (menopause) and my expectations for it, along with some thoughts about the crone archetype.
Wherein I talk about hurricanes, nostalgia, Granny, and my future...going on 50.
The second inaugural episode in which I talk a lot about myself: who I am, why I am doing this, and other sob stories.