Show Notes

Title: Episode 7: Coming Home to the Body: A Conversation between Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW, and Yvette Lalonde on Somatic Healing, Trauma, and Autonomy

Summary: What does it mean to come home to your body when you've spent years learning to override it? Lasara talks with Yvette Lalonde about somatic healing, trauma, and reclaiming bodily autonomy. They explore the language of sensation, consent in medical care, and why nervous system regulation isn't simply about calming down. They also talk about the ways dominant culture shapes our experience of our bodies, and what it means to center our own experience as trans and gender-expansive folx navigating perimenopause and menopause.

Key topics: somatic healing; felt-sense vocabulary; bodily autonomy; medical trauma; embodied consent; nervous system capacity; gender dysphoria; perimenopause and menopause

Guest links:
Inner Flow Somatic Counselling: https://innerflowcounselling.com/
About Yvette: https://innerflowcounselling.com/about-2/

As always, you can find more about Lasara and what they're up to at:
https://linktr.ee/Lasarafirefoxallen - for relevant links, coaching, upcoming classes, and their socials.

Genderqueer Menopause: https://www.genderqueermenopause.com

#SomaticHealing #TraumaInformedCare #BodilyAutonomy #GenderAffirmingCare #GenderqueerMenopause #QueerHealth

About Yvette Lalonde:
Yvette Lalonde (they/them) is a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor and the founder of Inner Flow Somatic Counselling. Their body-centered work brings together movement, breath, and nervous system awareness, with attention to the ways society and oppressive systems shape lived experience. Their own experience of complex trauma informs their work helping people reconnect with their bodies.

Listen to this quick clip of the brilliant Dr. Zha, author of CONSENTED! And then listen to the rest of the episode, because it's all this powerful.

Show Notes

Title: Epsiode 6: Reclaiming Patient Autonomy: A Conversation between Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW, and Dr. Zed Zha — Medical Violence, Consent, and Care

Summary: Lasara talks with Dr. Zed Zha about her new book Consented, and what it means to truly center patient autonomy in healthcare. They explore medical violence, the limits of informed consent as currently practiced, and what a more just model of care could look like — with particular attention to trans and gender-diverse patients navigating medical systems.

Key topics: informed consent; medical violence; patient autonomy; trauma-informed care; health equity; gender-affirming care

Guest links: Consented: A Doctor’s Call to End Medical Violence and Reclaim Patient Autonomy

Substack: Ask The Patient

Instagram: @drzedzha

Website: zedzha.com

As always, you can find more about Lasara and what they're up to at:

Lasara's LinkTree -- for all relevant links, including one to book an intro coaching session. You can also find out about upcoming classes. You can also find and follow all their socials there.

Lasara's EventBrite -- if you just want to see upcoming classes.

Lasara's Substack -- if you want to read more of what they have to offer.

#PatientAutonomy #MedicalViolence #InformedConsent #GenderAffirmingCare #QueerHealth #HealthEquity #Consented #MedicalGaslighting

About Dr. Zed Zha:

Zed Zha, MD, is a physician, writer, and medical cultural critic. In her book Consented: A Doctor’s Call to End Medical Violence and Reclaim Patient Autonomy (North Atlantic Books, 2026), she argues that what medicine calls “consent” is often anything but, and calls for a reimagining of care rooted in autonomy, transparency, and trust. She writes Ask The Patient, a widely read newsletter where she gives language to experiences many patients have felt but never been able to name.