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I love nuance, but more than nuance.

I really like to think deeply about the conditions that we find

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She is known as the period doctor and the new book, The Period and Puberty Parenting Revolution,

which will be available next month.

But we're going to give away a copy today because you know how I do.

Let me welcome Dr. Charis Chambers.

Welcome.

Hello.

Hi, Karen.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for coming.

I thought there was a typo. So I called you Cherise. And you were like, nope, it's Charis. What's the origin of that? So my mother's name was Charlotte. She passed about nine years ago. And she saw Karras, which is like the Greek word for like love or grace. And she said, I'm going to say this as Sharis. You know how we do. And that is how it was born. Can I say we were talking, I was talking with Dr. Daniel Black, who is at Clark Atlanta. And we were talking on Monday about, you know, we've been talking about names. We did a rites of passage with him and he gave us all names and the power of names somebody else called

up and they had a you know a Yorba name and I just think about how many of us were stripped

from having the meaning because you know Africans it's not just your name it's your family lineage

that can be found in all of the names we got all of that stripped but we somehow found a way

to still like your mom,

to still give meaning to our progeny. And so that's very beautiful. Thank you for sure. And I'm appreciative

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