Frankie opens up about their journey with disordered eating as a way to manage dysphoria and the things they are finding to assist with anxiety without extreme orthorexia. Their relationship to rigidity has evolved as a result of their study of Chinese Medicine along with giving themself permission to speak openly about their body’s experience. Frankie breaks all sorts of rules in the spirit of providing an open and safe environment for queer, trans and non binary patients.
Frankie is an acupuncturist and herbalist with a focus on trans affirming health practicing out of Brooklyn. They offer a sliding scale for People of color, trans people and sex workers. You can find out more about their practice @yarrow_medicine on instagram.
I hope you enjoy our conversation and find ways to support this podcast and the very important work Frankie is doing in the world.
They speak about a NYC community health resource for trans healthcare: Apicha @apichachc
LITQB Podcast
This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody.
The Host
Asher Pandjiris Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator
Virtual Workshops available every month: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/virtual-group-workshop
SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody
Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris
Audio Production: ganym3d3.com and https://talkbox.studio/
