Ep. 122 Normalizing the Challenges Women Face with Dr. Jessica Zucker

In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking, NYT New and Noteworthy book I Had a Miscarriage, Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist, advocate, and author Dr. Jessica Zucker boldly exposed the silence, stigma, and shame that surround pregnancy loss and demonstrated the need to normalize conversations around painful reproductive events that too often go unspoken. In her new book Normalize It, a #1 New Release on Amazon in Sex & Sexuality coming April 22, 2025, Dr. Zucker expands her lens to address a multitude of challenges women face—including girlhood, body image, motherhood, reproductive choice, sexual trauma, menopause, and more—that so often incite shame and overwhelming cultural pressure to stay silent. Based on patient stories, coupled with cutting-edge psychological research, Zucker fearlessly shares her insights into the shame and stigma that shroud so many women’s experiences and explores the liberation that can follow when we get vulnerable and talk about the hard stuff. In the episode, Dr. Zucker and I discuss her journey of miscarriage, breast cancer, and the journey of being a woman, a wife, a clinical psychologist, an advocate and author, and how creating space in our lives to share our stories, women will heal the shame, shift the stigma, and heal the suffering that has been silenced. Our Guest: Dr. Jessica Zucker Website and order your copy of Normalize It: https://www.drjessicazucker.com Instagram: @ihadamiscarriage About Gwen: Website: https://www.gwendittmar.com Instagram: @gwendittmar Join the next Grounded Group https://www.gwendittmar.com/grounded-group