Posts by Giovanna Rossi

On the Well Woman Show this month, I talk to Commissioner elect Adriann Barboa, in Bernalillo County’s District 3. Adriann currently serves as the Policy Director at Forward Together, where she works with families and communities across the state of New Mexico to bring about a culture shift and policies centered on the lived experiences of everyday New Mexicans. Adriann is a connector, an organizer, a trainer, and loves to spend her time with families and communities working together toward building the world we all want to live in. Adriann brings 20 plus years’ experience in the direct service and social justice sectors, working primarily on issues of gender, reproductive, anti-violence, education, and criminal justice in Indigenous and communities of color.

We discuss

-How Adriann hopes to bring diverse stakeholders to the table

– Working across party lines, and connecting people

– Why it’s important for women to work together for change.

You can find all the past episodes of the WWS featuring black, indigenous and women of color at wellwomanlife.com/womenofcolor.

Also, there is a list of resources at wellwomanlife.com/anti-racism.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/209show.

The books that Adriann recommended were:

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-No-More-Violence-Against/dp/0807088986

https://www.amazon.com/Paula-Memoir-front-cover-image/dp/0061564907/

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this week, we unlearn the messages that keep us playing small, undervaluing ourselves, and settling for anxiety and burnout. This is so simple AND so hard. To support women to do this and to make the changes in their lives to be able to do these three things consistently, I have created the Well Woman Academy where we unlearn all the unhelpful messages and replace those with strategic and practical ways to show up, be seen, be heard and improve our lives.

On the show this week, we’ll talk about:

• The thing that the self-help industry is completely missing
• The two things women are valued for and why these are keeping you playing small
• The most important piece of the Well Woman Framework that other personal development models are missing

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/208show

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

Sign up for The Well Woman Academy™: http://wellwomanlife.com/academy

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this week, we are discussing the importance of getting our needs met. As women, getting our needs met has been something society has taught us is secondary. First and foremost we should be concerned with nurturing others, whether that’s raising children, taking care of parents, or just simply playing the nurturer role at work, in the community, or with friends. Second, we should be concerned with how we look, being sure to be pleasing to others, particularly men. If we are women AND carry other identities based on race, ability, or sexual orientation then the requirement that we put our needs on the back burner multiplies. So it’s not surprising that so many of us have ongoing unmet needs, which show up as thoughts and feelings, which ultimately guide our actions in life.

On the show this week, we’ll talk about:

• Create awareness around your needs
• Intuitively reveal the steps for you to take to get your needs met
• Create a strategy or action plan
• Integrate the plan with your life as it is

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/207show

You can find the Need Inventory at https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

You can find the Feelings Inventory at https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/feelings-inventory

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

Sign up for The Well Woman Academy™: http://wellwomanlife.com/academy

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this week, I talk Laurie Santos, a Professor of Psychology and the Head of Silliman College at Yale University, as well as the host of the critically acclaimed podcast The Happiness Lab. After observing a disturbing level of unhappiness and anxiety among her students, she began teaching a course entitled “Psychology and the Good Life,” which quickly became the most popular course in Yale’s history and has also reached almost two million people from all over the world through an online version. Although she’s now best known as a “happiness expert,” Santos’s research explores the much broader question of “What makes the human mind unique?” and often includes comparing the cognitive capacities of non-human animals to humans.

On the show we talk about:

– How Happiness is something we can all work on

– What actionable strategies you can take to be happier now

-Why it’s harder for women than men to make time for happiness

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/205show

You can find the Anti-Racism Resources I mentioned at https://www.wellwomanlife.com/anti-racism

The Well Woman Show has featured many Women of Color on the show, you can find the complete list at https://wellwomanlife.com/WomenOfColorGuests

The books Dr. Santos mentions were:

https://www.christianpicciolini.com/breaking-hate-book

https://wwnorton.com/books/the-stoic-challenge

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.