EBB 192 - Raising Awareness and Advocacy for Sickle Cell Anemia Families with Advocate and Intuitive Womb Worker, Carissa Hunter
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After her daughter was born with a blood disorder called sickle cell anemia, Carissa started on a quest for healthy living and is now an intuitive womb worker— a holistic practitioner with many specialties in holistic healthcare. Specializing specifically in intuitive healing, ancestral lineage healing, energy, and sound healing, Carissa also is experienced in medical herbalism, and aromatherapy and she also practices as a stillbirth, birth, and bereavement doula.
We will talk about Carissa’s personal experience growing up with the sickle cell trait (one copy of the gene), as well as being a parent to a child with sickle cell anemia (two copies of the gene). We also talk about Carissa’s experience with unlearning and relearning many things around sickle cell anemia and her advocacy work to raise awareness about this blood disorder.
Content warning: we mention issues with sickle anemia, traumatic birth experiences, high-risk pregnancy, and pregnancy termination due to genetic conditions.
RESOURCES:
Learn more about Carissa Hunter here (https://www.healingjourneyintuitive.com). Follow Carissa on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/healingjourneyintuitively).
Learn more about the Sickle Cell Foundation of Tallahassee here (https://sicklecellfoundation.org/tag/tallahassee/).
Learn more about the Sickle Cell Foundation and find a chapter near your here (https://www.sicklecelldisease.org/).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Karissa Hunter about |
| 0:04.0 | advocacy for families with sickle cell anemia. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the |
| 0:16.7 | founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based |
| 0:22.3 | information into the hands of families and |
| 0:24.8 | professionals around the world. |
| 0:27.2 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:30.6 | See EB-B-B-Bcom, slash disclaimer, for more details. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence Space Birth |
| 0:41.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | For people who are listening, |
| 0:42.8 | if there are any content or trigger warnings, |
| 0:44.5 | we've posted them in the description or show notes below. |
| 0:47.7 | And now I'd like to introduce our honored guest, |
| 0:50.0 | Carissa Hunter, pronouns she, her, them there. |
| 0:53.6 | It all began in 2017 when Carissa started on a quest |
| 0:57.1 | for healthy living following the birth of her daughter, |
| 0:59.8 | who lives with a blood disorder called sickle cell anemia. |
| 1:03.0 | Carissa is truly passionate about all things health and wellness |
| 1:07.0 | and realize the restricted availability of natural, organic, and safe alternatives |
| 1:11.0 | around her, her loved ones, and her community. |
| 1:14.0 | Carissa had a desire to set up a natural concept that represents nature at its core. |
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