Podcasts about first mother

Candace Cahill is a first mother, late discovery step-adoptee, and the author of Goodbye Again, a memoir detailing her experience of losing her son twice. Candace is a modern-day Renaissance Woman and works seasonally as an Interpretive Park Ranger in Denali National Park & Preserve. Connect with Candace: Website: ⁠https://candacecahill.com/⁠ Book “Goodbye, Again” ⁠https://candacecahill.com/book/⁠ Other Published Work by Candace Cahill The Citron Review: WORDGAME:  ⁠https://citronreview.com/2023/12/29/wordgame/⁠ HuffPost:  An Unexpected Tragedy Changed Everything: ⁠https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mother-daughter-strained-relationship-tragedy_n_63b451d2e4b0cbfd55e43299⁠ Newsweek: I Found My Adopted Son, But We'll Never Spend a Holiday Together: ⁠https://www.newsweek.com/son-died-adoption-holidays-hard-1769932⁠ NBC TODAY: I met my birth son once, then he died. The man who adopted him helped me grieve: ⁠https://www.today.com/parents/essay/birth-son-died-adoptive-dad-grieve-rcna57725⁠ Newsweek: 'I Gave My Son Up for Adoption—23 Years Later My Life Was Turned Upside Down': ⁠https://www.newsweek.com/giving-son-adoption-23-years-later-life-turned-upside-down-1711477⁠ Severance Mag: Blue Baby Blanket: ⁠https://severancemag.com/blue-baby-blanket/⁠ Connect With Melissa: -Email Melissa here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mindyourownkarma@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Click here for the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mind Your Own Karma's Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠-Click here for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Find Mind Your Own Karma on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Find Mind Your Own Karma on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Find Mind Your Own Karma on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Click here for a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠comprehensive list of adoptee/adoptee trauma informed practitioners. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. ________ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WANT TO BE A GUEST? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (click to email mindyourownkarma@gmail.com) Mind Your Own Karma–The Adoption Chronicles Podcast educates listeners on the realities of adoption through the stories of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. We delve into their journeys, exploring identity, the emotional impacts of adoption, and the complexities that are involved when a child is removed from their biology. We also tackle tough topics like transracial adoption and adoption ethics, featuring experts and advocates. By sharing these diverse perspectives we hope to not only educate the world, but also give ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hope and healing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to those deeply affected by adoption trauma. ***This podcast's mission is on adoption education. If you have an expertise that you think would be beneficial to anyone touched by adoption and would like to be on the podcast, get in touch with me. #adopt #adoption #adoptee #adopteevoices #adopteesspeak #adoptionpodcast #adopteepodcast #mindyourownkarma #primalwound #adopted #adoptionjourney #thefog #adoptionfog #comeoutofthefog #hypnotherapy #jayshetty #hypnosis #somatic #attachmentstyles #subsconscioushealing #subconscious #whatwasimadefor #adoptiveparents #birthmother #whoami #constellationconversation #firesideadoptees #grief #emotionalpain #adoptionawareness #birthfamily #biologicalfamily #dna #adoptiontrauma #emotionaltrauma #primalwound #emotionalhealing #findmyfamily #smgi #bekind #eatingdisorders #hypnotherapy #somatichealing #somaticexperiencing #listenable #listenablestory #reunion #adopteereunion #ancestry #ancestrydna #23andme #adoptionstory #dna #reactiveattachment #rda #lifecoach #therapy #traumainformed --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melissa-ann-brunetti/support

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Sister Wives star Janelle Brown got candid about her journey through the grieving process on the first Mother's Day since her son Garrison's tragic death by suicide. Listen here and learn more at OKmagazine.com. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Spending your first Mother's Day after losing your mom is heartbreaking. Producer Amber is ready to open up and talk about her family's experience this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the Habersbergers are celebrating plus some insane Next Door posts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Very good message from the KJV Bible!

The First Mother was Eve!

Pancake Breakfast Special! A first Mother

Connor from Elgin writes in to Ask Blanche what he should get his wife for her first Mother's Day? She has a few good ideas but one GREAT one!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today - We sit down with Mrs. Chelan County, Clory Dahlgren, and Mrs. Capital City, Vanessa Ruiz, to learn more about their journey as the first mother and daughter competing for the Mrs. Washington America title. And later - East Wenatchee City Council member Sasha Sleiman has declared her resignation due to health complications.Support the show: https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/site/forms/subscription_services/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode #236 Honoring the First Mother - The Power & Mystery of the Placenta with Sister MorningStar Watch this episode HERE Have you ever considered the importance and sacred journey of the placenta, our first mother, in the birthing process? This often overlooked yet crucial part of childbirth takes center stage in our conversation with the wise and insightful Sister Morningstar. We venture deep into the mysterious and powerful process of childbirth, exploring not only the birth of the baby but also the birth of the placenta. From understanding the signs of readiness for the placenta's birth to the emotions involved with its release, Sister MorningStar guides us through this extraordinary journey. Here's what you'll hear: How the placenta is a fetal organ and often overlooked in the birthing process. The sacred journey of the placenta through two portal doors, aided by gravity and upright position, with mother guiding the cord using only the wrist. How to reduce fear and anxiety around blood loss during birth (& remind women that birth is bloody, it's messy, it's wet, and it's got mucus). The power of childbirth and how it is a powerful story that deserves to be celebrated (& how our past lineage play a factor in what we believe about birth). How wise women can help counter the fear in birth with their power and experience. Why the uterus must contract to birth the placenta and mention ways to encourage this such as nipple stimulation, massage, and letting the mother rest. The significance of an undisturbed birthing environment and the powerful experience of women using their strength to guide the baby and placenta out. Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It's everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it's inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you're here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor. Ready to share your Freebirth story with us? We'd love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society's exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, The Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite here. And, of course, we couldn't do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

The meaning, the motivation and the encouragement of Adam naming Eve.

Graduation celebrations (s/o to our girl Hailey), First Mother's Day (s/o to our girl Rachel) and the men folk losing their minds all in todays episode

To every mother I salute and honor you! To mothers who are grieving, may the Lord give you peace and strength! To those who desire motherhood- hold on to the Promise. I get to testify to God's goodness about this gift of motherhood given to me by God himself and wowww it has been a ride but I am all in! May this encourage you- I want to hear from you- info@aaopcs.net or message me @empowered2serve on IG. Do you want to be a guest on the show or connect with me? Send me an email @info@aaopcs.net To purchase book, Empowerment for you: Encouragement for your Emotional and Spiritual Wellness, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JRQC2M4 and to purchase the Empowered to Empower you Reflection Workbook, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MDGXRVW  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bewindi-aquilla-bobb/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bewindi-aquilla-bobb/support

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Pastor Ben Heise

Pastor Ben Heise

On today's episode I talk about what it feels like to be celebrating my first mother's day.   Join the conversation over in the free Soul Circle Community https://soulcirclecommunity.mn.co/feed   Let's connect: Instagram - @jbelthoff  Website -  www.jenniferbelthoff.com   Email - jennifer@jenniferbelthoff.com

Pastor Scott preaches the Word from the book of Genesis.

I learned or relearned something recently about mothers and grandmothers. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries when she's a four-month-old fetus, which means we spend approximately five months in our grandmother's womb. It also means our grandmother was formed in the womb of her grandmother. More in this week's post. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/another-world-is-probable/support

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Who, or what, is Lilith? We aim to find out today on The Diablo Show. Plus, D4 followers and how they might work, what classes are catching Scott's eye, what is known of the Codex of Power, and how to go from 3 to 4 without a bump! All that and more! Text us your questions: 801-471-0462.

Listen Now On the Sunday, August 7th edition of The Travel Guys…  In the Travel News, Southwest Airlines has welcomed its first mother-daughter pilot team. The Department of Transportation is FINALLY ready to help you get refunds and performance from airlines, but they are putting part of the refund responsibility on the wrong people…travel agents/advisors. Our Smarter Traveler segment features a discussion about “who owns this hotel?” You thought you were staying at a Hilton...

Today's episode features a moving story from a woman who recalls her first pregnancy in the late 1960s. The pregnancy was unintended. She was 18. Her parents, her social setting, and the cultural expectations of the time suggested that she had two options: either to marry her then boyfriend and start a family or have the baby in secret and surrender the newborn to the social workers who vaguely tended to her in the Home for Unwed mothers where she spent the end of her pregnancy and birth. Raised in the catholic faith to strict parents, abortion was not something she'd think to pursue, and it wasn't legal or easily accessed, especially for a women who wasn't married.  My guest reflects on how dramatically cultural views of sex and marriage have changed since she was first pregnant, and how her feelings about these topics have changed as well.for extended show notes, see: http://warstoriesfromthewomb.com/

Evelyn Robinson is a mother who was separated from her first child through adoption in Scotland in 1970. She later emigrated to Bermuda and then South Australia in 1982, where she still resides. Evelyn has a wealth of knowledge and experience in relation to the long-term outcomes of adoption separation and has experienced post-adoption services from every perspective - as a client, a volunteer and as a professional counsellor. She holds undergraduate and post-grad qualifications in social work and education. In 2017, Evelyn was named in the Australia Day Honours List and received an Order of Australia medal for her service to the community, in particular to family members separated by adoption. She is the mother of five children and has written several books about adoption. In this episode, Evelyn and Jo talk about grief and loss and adoption. This episode discusses adult themes and listener discretion is advised. For more information go to http://www.jigsawqueensland.com/episode-notesYour host is Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow - President of Jigsaw Queensland Inc. (www.jigsawqueensland.com)Connect with usInstagram - adopt_perspective_podcastFacebook - Jigsaw Post-Adoption Centre QueenslandWe acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and the many lands that our clients now live on and we wish to acknowledge and show our respects to Elders past and present for their continuing connection to culture and the contributions they make to community. We acknowledge how much we have to learn from them and their unique understanding of connection and adoption and their recognition that at the base of every change is truth telling and healing.

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It's Friday! Mexican Food Choices, Weekend Plans and This Is Kevin's First Mother's Day Since His Mom Passed...

Wandering Tree welcomes Mary to the show; a first mother who was forced to relinquish her child for adoption. The day we spoke was a first for both myself and Mary. Neither of us really knew what to expect when it came to having a conversation on the topic of adoption from our differing viewpoints. It was a new experience for me to be talking to a first mother who was not my own; and for Mary to speak to an adoptee not her own. The end result is this fantastic episode on just how hard it was to be a pregnant teen and how the situation was handled with little regard to her own feelings and mothering desires. Mary is welcoming of all first mothers and adoptees, supporting their journeys and sharing  to help others. Connect with Mary via TikTok @contrarybirthmom

Joyce is a mother who lost a daughter to adoption in Rockhampton (Qld) in 1970. In this episode, Joyce shares her story with Jo, including her reunion with her daughter, Kylie in 1990. In the next episode Kylie shares her powerful story of how adoption has impacted her life. This episode discusses adult themes and listener discretion is advised. For more information go to http://www.jigsawqueensland.com/episode-notes

It's application time! Now that you've listened to Episode 27: An Empathetic Look at Eve, the First Mother (Women of the Bible Series), it's time to pause so we can think and pray. I'll give you some prompts to meditate on related to this week's topic. There will also be time to connect with God through prayer! *** If this podcast has blessed you in some way, please consider leaving me a written review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews help more women find the show AND they let me see how God is using this podcast. Thanks! *** Connect: -Email: podcasterkatherine@gmail.com -Instagram: @revivalpodcastforwomen Music: -Twisterium by Pixabay -TattooedPreacher by Pixabay

Let's talk about Eve! She's often talked about as the first sinner, the beginning of the Fall for humankind. And, yes, she sinned. I agree. And the consequences have been severe for all of humankind. But also, she was a human, a real person, the first woman. The first mother. Let's look beyond the sinner and see Eve as a whole person. Let's take an empathetic look at the first human giver of life. A special thanks to Margret Mowczko, whose work on the word "helper" in reference to Eve informed this episode. You can learn more about her work on this topic here. Key Bible Verses: Genesis 1-4, Romans 3:22-24, Psalm 33:20 *** If this podcast has blessed you in some way, please consider leaving me a written review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews help more women find the show AND they let me see how God is using this podcast. Thanks! *** Connect: -Email: podcasterkatherine@gmail.com -Instagram: @revivalpodcastforwomen Music: -Twisterium by Pixabay

Since this is my first Mother's Day! I thought it would be fitting to share my challenges, reflections, and overall insights on how I feel about motherhood. In this episode, we'll discuss all things mindset and motherhood! Enjoy! Follow me: https://www.instagram.com/shawnellmiller/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shawnell-miller/message

At the end of her life, the biggest proponent of Mother's Day hated the holiday. Don't let Mother's Day be just another opportunity for commercial revenue. Show your mother you really lover her. Happy Mother's DayIf you would like to donate your research to the show or send a donation note please contact me at thehistoryof365@gmail.com.Click to donate here.Check out the show's Instagram here.Resources:Ancient Mother's DayAbout Rhea About Laetare SundayAbout the Word Laetare About Ann Jarvis About Julia Ward HoweAppeal to Motherhood Throughout the WorldAbout the First Mother's DayMother's Day in Congress

This is a poem about mother nature. Cherish the one who gives us life.

With more than 30 years of experience, Susan has walked alongside and listened to the stories of countless women and men and across the United States and around the world, helping them to discern and engage what God seems to be doing in their lives. Because of her unique background, she is an especially attentive listener and effective communicator. Her work is thoughtful and wise, Biblically and theologically informed, educational and inspiring. She is committed to providing practical guidance in the present and God's hope for the future.A Licensed Professional Counselor for over two decades, Susan continues to work with The Allender Center, facilitating lay counselor training and women's sexual abuse recovery. She enjoys a vibrant counseling practice, and was voted "Best of Charlottesville, Virginia" for four years in a row by the public. THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES IN NATURE OR SORROW Lord we are a lamentation Living like swans in a promise Not coming true Flush gone all mute I weep and swear To it though I'm sure some Find meaninglessness Beyond dispute I prefer the fathomable Grant me faith meaning prayer Settle us down into water To receive unquiet Questions without shushing us Pitching toward the imaginable By crushing us Fill our plain mouths with salt Under water color light Gulps of ballet Deep sprays of mundane As a sign Father You are still fond of us Feathered Spirit gather us by chance intervene Lengthen your curved neck As we are sodden quivering Inelegance keening Faithless faith dance Sound the depths of your Brokenness rolling Sand ground thus Into meaning and well-being Like sea glass submerged Be lost with us exhausted us I heard you sink wisdom With understanding beneath The enormous surface of your silence Susan Haroutunian Cunningham A FEW QUESTIONS FOR GRANDPA'S VINEYARD— FRESNO, CALIFORNIA To the pinhead berries clustered on grapevines Paul planted seventy years ago by my back door How dare you? To those curlycue tendrils reaching magnetically toward light, exhaling wrapping around climber and branch Are you listening? About tiny leaves making their way from those tendrils reaching larger leaves, touching with insistence Why are you emerging? Do you dare bring forth fruit into this burdened world full of sickness, death, poverty The undoing of everything? What do you know about change? How do you grow sweetness confidently in the breeze disobedient So near to one another? Against this cloudless cerulean spring's new vines are still alive bright green sprouting from rough wood while 24 hour news rhythms go on I see freshness another mystifying cycle showing buried secrets to air, soil, sun, to the water dripping down ancient stumps Susan Haroutunian Cunningham 

What are you doing right now? Are you eating? Listening to a podcast? Out for a run or a walk? Heading home from work? Ready to fall asleep?  Maybe you are intentionally doing something to nourish your heart, your body, your mind— your self. Maybe some combination of all of the above. I'm writing at home, not thinking about safety. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were doing something ordinary when they were killed. Ahmaud was out for a run, Breonna was asleep. Their lives and deaths bring to mind too many other Black Americans and people of color doing ordinary things in America while facing increasing racial injustice and fear. Almost 65 years ago Rosa Parks wanted to do something ordinary too— sit in her seat on the bus home from work. Despite many decades since the modern civil rights movement, more attention is needed particularly from white and privileged christian communities who have been uneducated and silent.  Remembering Rosa Parks gives us an opportunity to learn and to pay attention to both history and current events. She is relevant in both. It does not need to be Black History Month to focus on Rosa Parks. It does not need to be February. We need Rosa Parks this summer and in every season. Her voice teaches us to be more fully human, honor and love God, and all human beings as ourselves. Rosa Parks invites us to listen, stretch, to become collaborators and to work for justice for everybody. FIRST MOTHER Roll. Roll, Rosa. Roll down, Rosa. Roll down where wheels roll on, Cleveland Avenue bus. Move. Move on, Mother. Move on back. Move back as this driver orders, Montgomery Police bust. Rosa rides the dented yellow, green and white bus home from work where she sews dignified defiance into every garment. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks rides. Sees through sound glasses in 1955, sensible dignity any day in the way she inhabits her rightful vinyl seat. First of December this mother is due. Tonight, she sits unmoved, no stopping here. So still, Rosa. Accepts deep breaths of arrest, receives this moment thrust upon her. Constant kicking, labor, pains, screaming. Undeserved delivery. Giving birth to a boy- cott, Rosa Parks, forbearing mother. Twelve years ago when that same bus driver pushed her off that bus, rain, not justice, rolled down. An ever-flowing stream ran over her, walking, buttoned up topcoat, soaked. What patience courage carries. The face that stops hundreds of busses, moves thousands of feet. Do nothing and change everything. Down the road for such a time as this, Rosa. Awaken the pastor, whose dream will preach. Feel an honest presence. Marchers swelling like an emotional river still. So many motherless. Stillborn, are too many children of God. Console, Rosa. Let my people roll. So far and we are not there yet. Go down, Rosa. Even so, Rosa. This is the long way home. Susan Cunningham ©Susan Haroutunian Cunningham 2019 

Hey Guys ... so on today's episode I'm all over the place but, I hope yall still felt me. On this episode I give you insight on what my podcast series will be about & how my 1st Mother's Day overall went for me. Stay till the end because I talk a little bit about the Netflix show workin moms & my overall vibe is a little more confident

In today's episode, we discussed our plans for the summer and the difference between weddings and marriages. Question: who should come first in your life, your parents or your spouse? Tweet us your opinions, let us know what you think! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @comfortzonepod_

Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Professor of Practice in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University teaching "Reproductive Justice Theory and Practice" and "Race and Culture in the U.S." for the 2018-2019 academic year. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at Hampshire College in Women's Studies  for the 2017-2018 academic year teaching "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump." She was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012, a network founded in 1997 of women of color and allied organizations that organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement. She is one of the creators of the term "Reproductive Justice" coined by African American women in 1994 that has transformed reproductive politics in the U.S.    She is a nationally-recognized trainer on using the transformative power of Reproductive Justice to build a Human Rights movement that includes everyone.  Ms. Ross is an expert on women's issues, hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this affects social change and service delivery in all movements.      Ross has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," "Democracy Now," "Oprah Winfrey Radio Network," and "The Charlie Rose Show. She is a member of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices. More information is available on the Makers: Women Who Make America video at  http://www.makers.com/loretta-ross.     Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants. As part of a nearly five-decade history in social justice activism, between 1996-2004, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that, she was the Program Research Director at the Center for Democratic Renewal/National Anti-Klan Network where she led projects researching hate groups, and working against all forms of bigotry with universities, schools, and community groups. She launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the 1980s, and led delegations of women of color to many international conferences on women's issues and human rights. She was one of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center in the 1970s, launching her career by pioneering work on violence against women.   She is a co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, written with Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, and Elena Gutiérrez, and published by South End Press in 2004 (awarded the Myers Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and author of “The Color of Choice” chapter in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence published in 2006. She has also written extensively on the history of African American women and reproductive justice activism. Among her latest books are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-authored with Rickie Solinger and published by the University of California Press in 2017. She was the lead editor of Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice and Critique, co-edited by Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater-Toure published by Feminist Press also in 2017. Her forthcoming book is entitled Calling In the Calling Out Culture to be published in 2019.   Loretta is a rape survivor, was forced to raise a child born of incest, and she is also a survivor of sterilization abuse. She is a model of how to survive and thrive despite the traumas that disproportionately affect low-income women of color. She serves as a consultant for Smith College, collecting oral histories of feminists of color for the Sophia Smith Collection which also contains her personal archives (see https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/pwv/pwv-ross.html).  She is a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother.    She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law degree awarded in 2003 from Arcadia University and a second honorary doctorate degree awarded from Smith College in 2013.    AWARDS (partial)  American Humanist Association, Humanist Heroine Award, 1998  DePaul University Cultural Center Diversity Award, 2001  Georgia Committee on Family Violence, Gender Justice Award, 2002  SisterLove Women's HIV/AIDS Resource Project Award, South Africa, 2002  National Center for Human Rights Education, First Mother of Human Rights Education Award, 2004  Feminist Women's Health Center, Stand Up for Choice Award, 2005  NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia, Blazing Arrow Award, 2006  Federation of Haitian Women, Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Marie Claire Heureuse Leadership Award, 2007  Family Planning Associates, Champion of Reproductive Justice Award, 2007  United States Social Forum, Building Movements Award, 2007  Women's Medical Fund of Philadelphia, Rosie Jimenez Award, 2007  Sisters of Color United for Education, Denver, CO, 2008  Women of Color Resource Center, Sister Fire Award, 2008  Black Women's Health Imperative, Community Health Activist Award, 2008  Delta Sigma Theta, Pinnacle Leadership Award, 2008  International Black Women's Congress, Oni Award, 2010  Women Helping Women, Revolutionary Award, 2011, Foundation for Black Women's Wellness Legacy Award 2015, National Women's Health Network Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health 2015. Woodhull Sexual Freedom Network, Vicky Award 2017.