Creating Space To Expand: A Live Conversation with Erica Chidi-Cohen

Erica Chidi-Cohen is an educator, author, doula, and the co-founder and CEO of LOOM, which provides empowered education from periods to parenting. She is passionate about helping people cultivate body literacy and sex positivity by giving them the tools to advocate for their and loved one’s reproductive health and wellbeing. Her work has guided thousands of people in their transition from pregnancy to parenthood in her work as an educator, doula, and author with the bestselling book, Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Early Motherhood. Beyond womxn and healthcare, Erica works to educate on pleasure, relationships, vulnerability, and self-care by providing an empowered, shame-free perspective. Erica Chidi-Cohen is a rich gift and we are so grateful to have her.

Enjoy this conversation on finding a deeper level of self-awareness + self-love, examinations of our pain + trauma, sexual liberation, and more recorded live from the Los Angeles stop of The Black Girl In Om Expansion Tour.

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Quotes From The Episode:

“What is the quality of my relationship with my body and myself right now? What can I start to give myself and focus on more within my body?” — @HelloLaurenAsh | click to tweet

“I do feel as humans that we want to be interconnected, and that’s important, but there are periods of time where you can just be on your own and find some beauty in that.” — @ericachidi | click to tweet

“What did you love as a child that maybe you didn’t even have time for?” — @ericachidi | click to tweet

“Be open to feeling it or being around it because there is no way to avoid it.” — @ericachidi, on pain | click to tweet

“What is one thing you want to bring forward into your week + the rest of this year? How is it related to expanding?” — @HelloLaurenAsh | click to tweet

“There’s so much power in connecting, in being open, in being vulnerable with one another — how healing and how generative that is.” — @HelloLaurenAsh | click to tweet