In this episode Athena and I talk about how scarcity shows up for us on an individual level and on a relationship level. I come to a realization about the use of certain words as triggers within myself, which Athena holds space for me to process. 

Athena is a fat, queer, Afro-Caribbean woman, living with gratitude on the unceded and stolen lands of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. For over a decade she has worked in nonprofit organizations providing one to one support to survivors of violence and trauma. She is a guiding collective member of Fat Panic!: an alliance of people of all sizes who believe in a society in which no one is taught to hate their own or anyone else’s body, for any reason. She is a full-time student, a partner, a parent to two, and in her spare time, the Navigator of Iyapo Station; a book club reading fantasy and science fiction works by BIPOC authors. 

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