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Episode 73: Jodie Patterson

Practice You

On womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity.

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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

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Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)
2020
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Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America.

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Walt Odets
2020
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Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other

Drawing on her own and others' experiences, Loulan explores what it means to be lesbian: how we live our lives and how we want to live our lives - with passion - "passion is not only about sex, but about the life force that energizes it.

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JoAnn Loulan
1987
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Sex in Recovery: A Meeting Between the Covers

If sobriety and the start of your recovery journey coincided with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, you're experiencing "sober firsts" in a whole new world. This book offers a candid and compassionate invitation to the tender territory of sober sexuality.

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Jennifer Matesa
2016
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Sex and the Single Girl

Sexuality is a hot topic these days, and opinions are all over the place. A resource offering simple “do’s and don’ts” won’t cut it. Sex and the Single Girl fills the gap by providing a broader, more comprehensive understanding of what it means to honor God with our sexuality.

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Dr. Juli Slattery
2017
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Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms

We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangelical Christianity or not, we've all been taught in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that sex (outside of very specific contexts) is immoral and taboo.

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Matthias Roberts
2020
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Release Shame With Vedic Sexuality

Human sexuality must be made less important than it is currently in spiritual circles. By denying it, hiding it, and suppressing it, we have made it far more important in a deviant sort of way.

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Acharya Shunya
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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Sharon Roszia, Allison Davis Maxon
2019
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Why Shaming Your Children Is a Bad Idea and What You Can Do Instead

As parents, we need to step off our pedestal, stop dominating our kids, and instead treat them as we like to be treated. After all, do you like being shamed? Does it bring out the best in you?

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Shefali Tsabary
2015
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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives.

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John Bradshaw
2005
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