Episode Six: Integrative Health as Feminist Care

Episode Summary

What does integrative health mean, and how is it part of feminist care? What are the barriers to accessing - and providing - a wider range of frameworks and resources for healing? In this episode of Mirror and a Flashlight, we talk with Clinical Services Director, Leslie Fiedler, about CWHC’s Integrative Health Program (IHP). Learn about how this program is advancing CWHC’s model of care by ensuring the clients have access to a range of healing options, including acupuncture, Pelvic Floor Therapy, and an Intuitive Eating framework of nutrition.

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CWHC’s Collaborating Providers

  • Martha Burla, MPH, CHES is a certified health education specialist and intuitive eating counselor. Martha works from a fat positive, Health at Every Size, trans inclusive perspective.

  • Ariel Wynne PT, DPT is a physical therapist specializing in the pelvic floor.

Learn more about CWHC’s Integrative Health Program and services:

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  • Integrative Health Volunteers provide sensitive, client-centered massage therapy and/or bodywork services to CWHC clients. In recognition of the range of needs of our clients, we are committed to building our integrative health services, including offering massage and bodywork of all modalities. If you are interested, please email a completed integrative health volunteer application to our Development Director, A.J. Barks, at ajb@chicagowomenshealthcenter.org.

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Episode Credits

This episode was produced by Ariel Mejia and edited by A.J. Barks, Sarah Rebecca Gaglio, and Terri Kapsalis, with editorial support from Lisa Schergen and Leslie Fiedler.

Special thanks to Leslie Fiedler for sharing her wisdom with us for this episode.

Mirror and a Flashlight is made possible by our community of support. Our special thanks to Corbett Vs Dempsey, Women Unite!, Early to Bed, Women & Children First Bookstore, Laura McAlpine Consulting for Growth, and Mats Gustafsson and Catalytic Sound.