🎙️ Black Maternal Health and Chronic Pain

#blackmaternalhealthweek #pregnancy #womenofcolor Join the conversation with Freedom To Know Wellness in Season 2, Episode 1—an episode honouring Black Maternal Health Week, April 11–17. Hear one Black woman's powerful journey navigating chronic pain and maternal care within the Canadian healthcare system. She represents many Black women and Women of Colour who face a system often marked by neglect and medical gaslighting. A system built on biased standards—rooted in comparisons based on the race and gender of its original, dominant population. Black Maternal Health Week, "Emphasizes the power of Black-led perinatal, maternal, and reproductive health organizations to drive systemic change and foster community healing." Quote by Black Mamas Matter. Continue this episode's conversation on freedomtoknowwellness.substack.com 📚 REFERENCES https://freedomtoknowwellness.substac... Timestamp 0:00 FTKWellness Intro 0:56 Facts On Black Maternal Health 2:27 Interview (Intro on Guest: Efia) 5:42 Chronic Pain, Advocacy, Medical Gaslighting, Care, & Women of Colour 35:48 Anxiety and Silencing: Managing the Medical System 40:55 TTC/Pregnancy/ Chronic Pain/ Medical System & Race 48:47 Race & Medical System - Reference Intervals (RIs) 56:20 Black-led OB, Birth Mortality Rates, Maternal Collective Care 01:14:06 Partners Genes Impacting Pregnancy 01:17:12 Post-Partum Healing with Chronic Pain 💰 ⁠Support Freedom To Know Wellness ⁠: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/FTKWe... 🎵 Music: Hold You Artist: Q-Black ⁠Soundcloud:   / mrq94   #blackwomenshealth #indigenouswomen #chronicillness #medicalcannabis #invisibledisability #womenshealth #medicalgaslighting #ftkwellness