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Welcome to Deeply Well. This show is a soft place to land on your journey, a space where we explore what it truly means to live well from the inside out.

Not perfectly, but honestly. With all the complexity,

the paradox, the beauty, and the wonder of being human. Because in a world that is constantly pulling at us, this is the space to come back to yourself, to your body, your truth, to the practices that genuinely sustain you, the ones that work when life is actually happening.

This show is for the seekers, the creatives, the sensitive ones, for everyone doing the quiet, courageous work of becoming whole.

This is deeply well.

There are certain conversations that ask us to look beyond statistics, stereotypes, and social

narratives, and really examine the emotional realities that

people carry every day. Today we are talking about single motherhood, respectability, politics,

patriarchy, partnership, shame, survival, and the complicated emotional terrain that many women navigate while raising children

and trying to maintain their own sense of self. Joining me today is Jamila Lemieux. Jamila is a

culture critic and writer with a focus on issues of race, gender, and parenting. A leading feminist thinker,

social influencer, and millennial media voice. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times,

The Nation, Essence, Playboy, The Cut, Wired, Self, Refinery 29, Vanity Fair, and many more. She was prominently featured in

Lifetime Surviving R. Kelly and surviving R. Kelly, too, The Reckoning, as well as A&E's Secrets

of Playboy. She also penned the forward for the anniversary editions of Michelle Wallace's Black

Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

and Anne Petrie's Miss Muriel and other stories. Currently, she writes a weekly advice column

for the Slate's Care and Feeding, parenting section, and she resides in Los Angeles where she

co-parents her daughter, Naima.

This conversation is honest, it's nuanced, it's emotional at times, and it is deeply necessary.

Please welcome to the show, Jamila Lemieux.

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