Mothering The Mother with Shafia Monroe
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This episode features Shafia Monroe discussing African American postpartum traditions and the importance of recognizing and addressing historical trauma in postpartum care.
Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions with Shafia Monroe In this rich and powerful episode, host Augustine is joined by co-host Israel Johnson, Licensed Direct Entry Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife from Oregon, to welcome the legendary Shafia Monroe — midwife, author, cultural historian, and founder of the SMC Full Circle Doula Training, the first Black doula training launched nationally in 2002 in Portland, Oregon. Shafia has just published her long-awaited book, Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes and Healing , and this conversation is a celebration of that birth — and so much more. In this episode we cover: Shafia's 11-year journey from journal entry to published book Why African American postpartum care has been largely invisible — and why that must change The historical trauma Black mothers carry, and the healing power of returning to traditions Why anemia may be at the root of more postpartum depression than we realize The herbs every postpartum mother should have on hand Shafia's relationship with Erykah Badu, who wrote the foreword and called the book "the postpartum Bible" Why more clinical visits is NOT…
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