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Circling the Drain

A podcast about the period BEFORE you stop getting your period. The concept of a woman "circling the drain" conjures up negative imagery for some, but the origin of this as the name of the podcast has a story. A friend, in her 30's at the time, was listing her ailments to a male physician who clearly had a terrible bedside manner, because he responded to her complaints by shrugging his shoulders in a dismissive fashion and saying something like, "I don't know what to tell you. From now on, you're basically just circling the drain!" Co-hosts Ellie and Julia have been laughing at the audacity of this tone-deaf interaction ever since, and when they decided to start this podcast about the plight of the aging woman, they chose to reclaim and repurpose the phrase in the spirit of humor. Every human on the planet is circling the drain from the moment we are born. The question is, how slowly and gracefully can we spiral? And can we minimize the discomfort while we whirl? Perimenopausal co-hosts Ellie and Julia take a deep dive into the sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, and always bewildering issues of the hormonal changes that take place in midlife. Through honest accounts, thoughtful interviews, and group panel discussions, their mission is to make you chuckle, make you nod your head in recognition, and hopefully make some scientific progress.

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Circling the Drain

We Finally Got You a Pro Dom with Leoh Blooms

August 30, 2023 • Ellie Dvorkin Dunn & Julia Granacki with Leoh Blooms • Season 3 • Episode 57

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Leoh Blooms is a queer, fluid, and nonbinary-trans trauma-informed mentor and Pro Dom. Everything they do in their practice focuses on intimacy, mental health, gender, sex, and practical self-care. They help clients aged 21 and up to create lives they don't need to hide from by offering various levels of support in a power dynamic format, using kink for fun and as a healing modality. Listen to Leoh talk about coming out at the age of 45, jumping through medical hoops when a gender fluid person needs medical care, and explain what a Pro Dom actually IS and DOES. In response, Ellie talks about working in an office located upstairs from an old-school dominatrix, and Julia explores the idea of using a rope-tying technique for self-soothing. This was not our usual rodeo, and we liked it. We think you will, too.

Topics and timestamps
11:30 - Instant menopause after a radical hysterectomy
13:57 - Justifying the medical need for Testosterone as a non-transitioning person
19:25 - Coming out at the age of 45 to a family that includes a husband and five children
27:47 - What it means to work as a Pro-Dom
40:27 - Steps the medical community should take to help gender fluid people
43:33 - Celebrating a non-monogamous marriage commitment

Handles and sites
Leoh's website
Leoh's Insta

List of Resources Mentioned
FDA Approves First Nonprescription Daily Oral Contraceptive - Opill
Adenomyosis
Discovering Gender Fluidity: A Late Bloomer’s Journey to Self-Acceptance
Chrononormativity by Leoh Blooms

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Ellie Dvorkin Dunn

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Julia Granacki

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