Heavy Is the Womb: The Fibroid Fight Black Women Carry in Silence

Chapters:

0:00 - Opening Toast and Episode Overview with Content warning + Stat
2:53 - Question and Answers about Fibroids including symptoms, emotional weight, feelings of femininity, mood impacts
22:35 - Medical mistrust and neglect of black women health & the work YOU need to do
29:09 - What types of treatments WE have selected for our Fibroid solution
35:11 - Lupita N'yongo's Fibroid story CLIP and GCOB thoughts
42:20 - Fertility and redefining womanhood outside of reproduction
45:43 - Changing the Medical System to listen to Black women and involvement in research
50:55 - Ask Aunty Segment
57:33 - Pass the Plate Segment
59:13 - Songs that resonate + Close the Table

Heavy Is the Womb takes us right to the heart of a conversation Black women rarely get the space to have out loud: fibroids, feminine pain, medical dismissal, and the emotional weight we carry in silence.

In this episode of Group Chat Over Brunch, we sit at the table on location at a Cleveland favorite (Cordelia), drinks raised, ready to unpack the five-point burden so many women experience but so few feel safe naming.

We talk:

*The silent pain of living with fibroids*
*Why Black women are diagnosed later and dismissed more often*
*The emotional + spiritual weight we hide behind strength*
*What healing, advocacy, and community actually look like over 40*
*How our womb stories shape our identity, relationships, and everyday lives*

This is a raw, affirming, necessary conversation about the bodies we live in, the care we deserve, and the healing we’re reclaiming.

✨ If you are a Black woman navigating womb health, this episode is for you.
✨ If you’ve ever carried pain quietly, this episode is for you.
✨ If you’re ready to feel seen, understood, and supported — pull up a seat.

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Episode Playlist - Songs that Resonate

1. India.Arie – “I Am Light”
“I am not the things my family did / I am not the voices in my head.”

2. Solange – “Cranes in the Sky”
“I tried to drink it away, I tried to put one in the air / I ran my credit card bill up, thought a new dress would make it better.”

3. Jazmine Sullivan – “Masterpiece (Mona Lisa)”
“Every part of me is a vision of a portrait of Mona, of Mona Lisa / Every part of me is beautiful and I finally see I'm a work of art.”

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