It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.

What's on the show:

• We test Ben on classic Aussie Slang
• Tully Smyth joins the show to chat about being an ambassador for Dementia Australia
• The official list of things that SOUND romantic but really aren't
• Is Laura's unborn baby a victim of Third Child Syndrome?
• Laura is one of the 20% of people who can smell ants, and we've just realised that not everyone smells rain?
• Horrible Housemates
• Laura's neighbour MAY have stolen her cat

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Shame and stigma are used to keep us in line and keep us quiet. Some of it is quite obvious, while other parts of the shame and stigma are more subtle and a little harder to recognise. From girlhood, we are taught that we should look and feel a certain way. The expectations of motherhood, our careers, our bodies, whether or not we should choose marriage are all laced with taboos.

Today’s guest is Dr Jessica Zucker. Jessica is a clinical psychologist with a PhD who specialises in reproductive health and the author of the award-winning book I HAD A MISCARRIAGE: A Memoir, a Movement. Today we are going to unpack some of the concepts of her second book titled Normalize it: Upending the Silence, Stigma and Shame That Shape Women’s Lives.

We speak about:

• Jessica’s own miscarriage and how women tend to blame themselves when they experience miscarriage
• Being told to keep pregnancy a secret until 2nd trimester & how it can leave women feeling unsupported
• The trifecta of silence, shame and stigma and how they all feed each other
• “At least” comments and how they try to ‘tidy up’ pain
• Objectification theory
• Navigating diet culture and health messaging with our kids
• The language we use when it comes to health and conditions like cancer of ‘beating it,’ ‘be strong’ and ‘fighting’
• Perfectionism and it’s link to anxiety
• The narratives of what we ‘should’ want to be like married and mothers
  
  

You can get a copy of Dr Jessica Zucker’s new book here: Amazon

Find her on Instagram: @ihadamiscarriage

And more from her website: drjessicazucker.com

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Hey Lifers!
Britt’s having a rough trot today 😂. We speak about some RSVP and allergy mishaps, lucid dreams and some of the darker sides of professional sport. Truth be told, are you interested when other people speak about their dreams? How about if they’re about angry gorillas?

There’s a piece of content that is popping off on socials at the moment from a podcast talking about how these young men want their partner to be able to not work and go on hot girl walks if they choose to.
This video seems to be of a similar rhetoric that we are seeing across a few different channels of social media and also in the social discourse where traditional gender roles are being sprouted as an optimum lifestyle that we should aspire to.

We ask, is this a caring provider and a man who wants to look after his partner or is it harmful, patriarchal messaging dressed up as modern masculinity?

We unpack:

• Call out vs call in culture
• The need for financial security
• The ideologies of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ energies
• Soft patriarchy
• Choice feminism

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