Episode 44
Built By an Endo Founder, For Endo Women | Oyva
Linda Jermacans walked into her doctor's office thinking she was in perimenopause.
She walked out on her way to a stage four endometriosis diagnosis.
Her main symptom was chronic fatigue, which is something nobody tells you to look for, so she almost never got diagnosed at all.
Then she got handed the options: go into a fake menopause, or take out your uterus completely, and hey, you're not having kids anymore anyway.
She didn't wait around for other options.
She went down the rabbit hole herself, 20 pills a day and 10 different supplements, until she reverse-engineered her own body and built Oyva instead.
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🖼️The art of this episode is Kali Ma.
Kali Ma in Blue I — Every Phase #65, Ovulatory Phase. It's about lying in the middle of the road waiting for the world to swerve for you, and it doesn't. You don't get to drive the car until you stop hitting shit and you stop being the thing that gets hit. That's Linda's whole story. Kali isn't gentle. She ends illusions so she can create life, and that's exactly the energy you want in the room when you finally decide you're the one driving.
Learn more about the piece & Collect Kali Ma in Blue I here: [COLLECT]
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LINKS
Linda Jermacans — Oyva: https://www.oyva.com
The art Linda talks about in Biohacking With Art:
Lanterns by Jia Lu — https://www.jialu.com
She found it in a gallery in Maui, shipped it to Canada, and it's moved with her for 20 years. Outwardly, she's beautiful, feminine, holding her lantern. Look closer at her face and there's pain underneath it. That's the whole double life of endo in one painting.
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âś…CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
05:01 Stage 4 Endo
06:55 Chronic Fatigue & Cancer
09:43 Supplement Stacking Problem
14:14 Well, You're Not a Doctor
23:57 Endo Signs We Normalize
25:50 The Featured Art Piece
28:10 Perimenopause Meets Endo System
29:58 OYVA Trinity
34:13 Message to Endo Women
39:38 Pain + Healing Resources
40:25 Canada Healthcare Reality
44:01 Oyva as Warrior Art
49:35 Periods and Workplace Culture
55:49 Where to Find OYVA
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ABOUT THE PODCAST
Your pain is not a design flaw.
It is your unrealized power.
And your greatest teacher.
I'm Meredith Ochoa — ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST. After 17 years of endometriosis, surgical failures, and being told my pain was psychological, I stopped outsourcing my healing and went in. I healed myself. I turned the journey into art. And I built this show to introduce you to every expert, practice, and buried truth that helped me get there.
Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself is a movement + podcast.
We cover chronic pain, hormonal health, endometriosis, autoimmune disease, trauma, cycle syncing, functional medicine, Reiki, Ayurveda, sacred sexuality, Taoist healing, psilocybin, and everything else the mainstream medical system doesn't want on your radar.
The only way out is through. Art is how.
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