Ep 5. Robina Khalid: Changing Bodies & Personal Power

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit alizakelly.substack.comContent Warning: Eating discords, body dysmorphia, pregnancy, birthOn this week’s episode of The Curiosity Pod, I sit down with Robina Khalid of Small Things Growing to unpack the power, pleasure, and challenges of pregnancy and birth. Robina is a Pakistani-American community midwife, award-winning writer and PhD, and unschooling mother of four. We discuss the ways in which pregnancy transforms your relationship to your physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies, as well as unmedicated births and how tending to your inner-child can prepare you to become a parent. Robina tells me about the history of obstetrics, why pregnancy is treated like a pathology (and why it isn’t one), and how you can reclaim your birthing experience as empowering, magical, and valuable. Paid subscribers receive full audio and written transcription.