For many of us, working to care for others doesn’t stop when we head home from work at the end of the day. The other relationships in our lives, including the intimate one we share with our partner, also require care—of both ourselves and the other person.

In this episode, Alida Miranda-Wolff sits down with Dr. Alexandra Solomon, a therapist, author, and speaker who, over the past two decades, has worked with couples to help them better navigate intimacy and meet both each other's needs and their own. Their discussion of acceptance and relational self-awareness, two key factors in healthy, thriving relationships, reflects the realistic, balanced approach to intimate love that Dr. Solomon teaches.

Explore how to build more meaningful intimate connections:

• A definition of love that embraces the worth of each partner
• The impact of our individualistic society on romantic love
• How recontextualizing shame and disappointment can help us heal
• Positive habits that instill relational self-awareness

Important Links from this Episode:

• Listen to Reimagining Love
• Dr. Solomon’s book, Love Every Day
• Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationships You Want by Dr. Solomon
• Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want by Dr. Solomon
• All About Love by Bell Hooks
• Care Work Podcast - EP #1 - Bearing Witness as an Act of Care with Micky ScottBey Jones

Connect with Dr. Alexandra Solomon:

• Dr. Solomon’s website
• Follow Dr. Solomon on Instagram

Connect With Alida:

• Share your feedback on LinkedIn
• Order Alida’s book “Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last” and gain exclusive access to bonus content!
• Order Alida’s book “The First-Time Manager: DEI”
• Learn more about Alida Miranda-Wolff

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How do you define and process grief? Over the next three episodes, Care Work is exploring grief—the collection of emotions and experiences we have with any loss. Essential within this work is inspecting how we process and continue to live within this universal experience.

In this episode, Alida is joined by Dr. Sunitha Chandy, a clinical psychologist specializing in helping transform both individual lives and communities through mental health services. Sunitha shares her insights on the interplay between community and grief and the importance of accepting both the inherent difficulty and the cathartic potential of the grieving process.

Listen to learn:

• How COVID impacted how we understand grieving
• The behaviors with which grief and mourning are intertwined
• The detrimental effect of our American taboos against public grief
• Why the grieving process is an ongoing healing rather than a cure

Important resources from this episode:

• Dr. Chandy’s community conversations - https://www.artesiancollaborative.com/learn
• Connect with Dr. Chandy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunitha-chandy-psy-d-16b785141/
• Dr. Chandy’s website - https://www.sunithachandy.com/
• Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey - https://bookshop.org/p/books/rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto-tricia-hersey/18255493?ean=9780316365215
• David Kessler on grief - https://grief.com/

Connect with Dr. Sunitha Chandy:

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunitha-chandy-psy-d-16b785141/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/artesiancollaborative/

Connect With Alida:

• Share your feedback on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alidamw
• Order Alida’s book “Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last” and gain exclusive access to bonus content! - https://bookshop.org/p/books/cultures-of-belonging-building-inclusive-organizations-that-last-alida-miranda-wolff/17372555?ean=9781400229253
• Learn more about Alida Miranda-Wolff - https://alidamirandawolff.com/

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How do we dismantle the disability stigma? This latest arc on the Care Work podcast explores the concept of disability justice from the perspectives of three people—Tim Villegas, María Emilia Lasso de la Vega, and Lauren Schrero Levy—who are working to change our social approach to accessibility and inclusivity.

In this episode, Alida Miranda-Wolff reflects on the ways stigma and a repurposed definition of “normal” have impacted disability justice, from the history of society’s aversion to disability to the possibility of a future where people with different abilities are viewed not as inconveniences but as essential contributors to our communities.

Explore the origins stigma and what we can do to disassemble the harmful attitudes that hold as back.

Tune in to learn:

• The definition of stigma and the development of disability as an inconvenience
• The role of industrialization in the segregation of and aversion to disability
• How closed captioning is a proof positive that accessible spaces benefit us all
• The role pre-emptive inclusivity plays in standardizing accessibility

Important resources from this episode:

• Episode 24, “Exploring Inclusive Education Through Storytelling with Tim Villegas”
• Episode 25, “Designing For Neurodiversity Inclusivity with María Emilia Lasso de la Vega”
• Episode 26, “Embracing Interdependence Creating Inclusive Communities with Lauren Schrero Levy”
• Episode 22, “Redefining the Inequity of Modern Literacy with Ken Bigger”
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
• On The Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
• The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling
• What Can A Body Do: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
• Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
• Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris

Connect With Alida:

• Share your feedback on LinkedIn
• Pre-Order Alida’s new book “The First Time Manager DEI”
• Order Alida’s book “Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last” and gain exclusive access to bonus content!
• Learn more about Alida Miranda-Wolff

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