Love Letters to Our Bodies
Conversations on health, healing, and happiness for and by African American women. An exploration of the mind, body, spirit connection. and opportunities to hear from spiritual teachers and holistic health practitioners.
Love Letters to Our Bodies
Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Treatment
Reclaiming one's sexuality after treatment is a deeply personal and often challenging journey that requires courage and open conversation. On today’s episode of Love Letters 2 Our Bodies, we delve into this topic with Ebonie Michelle, Founder and CEO of Prowl the LAB. Join our host, Gwendolyn Mitchell, and Ebonie as they go deeper into her personal journey with her body through several challenging experiences, including her double mastectomy. They discuss the inspiration behind Prowl the LAB, what the name means, and Ebonie’s insights on reclaiming your sexuality after trauma or illness. Tune in now to hear this powerful conversation.
Key Points From This Episode:
• We are introduced to today’s guest, Ebonie Michelle.
• Ebonie shares her own personal journey with her body, before founding Prowl the LAB.
• How different health challenges and experiences shaped her as a young woman
• We discuss how the early prescription of birth control pills may have impacted her journey.
• Ebonie shares the inspiration behind finding Prowl the LAB.
• How she describes her relationship to her body, at present.
• She explains why Prowl the LAB focuses on five different areas of sexuality.
• We delve into the experience of having a double mastectomy.
• We further explore the five circles of sexuality.
• Ebonie gets into what it means to reclaim your sexuality after trauma or illness.
• She shares more about a special upcoming event.
Quotes:
“When we think about sexuality, a lot of the misinformation is that sexuality is only encapsulated or illustrated through our sexual preferences, and that is not the case. Sexuality incorporates sexual wellness.” — Ebonie Michelle [0:21:17]
“The main focus of Prowl the LAB is to support women and couples as they cultivate, or as they maintain, healthy sexuality throughout their cancer care, chronic illness, trauma-related or experiential relationship in terms of different abilities.” — Ebonie Michelle [0:22:55]
“We are not our diagnosis. We are not the circumstances of our adverse health status. We are women. We are human, and unfortunately, many of us have to navigate experiences that cause us to have face-to-face meetings with our mortality, sometimes before we are ready.” — Ebonie Michelle [0:30:31]
“I find that sexualization, in many cases, has such a direct and detrimental impact on the evolution of someone’s sexuality. Specifically with reference to history of trauma, of different ability, of challenges with sexual wellness, within the grander scheme of healthy sexuality.” — Ebonie Michelle [0:36:57]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Gwendolyn Mitchell on Linkedin
Love Letters 2 Our Bodies is sponsored by Moyo Institute, Inc and the Lloyd Symington Foundation
Gwendolyn Mitchell on LinkedIn
MOYO Institute, Inc
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