Whole Mother Show – Whole Mother
Pat Jones, Debbie Hull
Recent Episodes
Dr. Christina Garcia-Ramirez, PT, DPT, OCS, MDNC, with Elevated PT Wellness. She will tell us about physical therapy and how it can benefit everyone and especially pregnant women. She will tell us how muscle tension/pain is associated with body parts and how we can change those aches and pains with education, breath and physical therapy education. Amazing information that could change your life. She will also tell us about a workshop she is leading on December 6 at 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm at New Traditions Midwifery in League City where she will talk about Maintaining Mobility and Strength wile being pregnant plus and another workshop later in the month.
Dr. Christina Garcia-Ramirez, is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with specialty in Orthopedics. She has been practicing for 11 years and worked mostly in the outpatient clinic setting. She recently opened her own practice with a partner after working for corporate, hospital, and privately owned clinics. Her new practice is mobile and provides concierge level care to the Southeast Houston area. She loves to work with active adults who want to stay active, especially moms who like to run and are pregnant or have been pregnant in the past. Dr. Christina is a runner herself and has completed 3 marathons and many half marathons. She is also a mom to 2 sons, ages 5 and 2.
Jackie Griggs, CNM, Diana Jolles, PhD, CNM, and Patricia Olenick, CNM, tell us about the life of Sister Angela Murdaugh, FSM, CNM, FACNM, her career, goals, intentions, and contributions.
Patricia Olenick,CNM, has been a nurse-midwife for over 25 years and worked in various settings from community-based birth centers to high-tech teaching hospitals. Some of her favorite former activities include caring for women who were incarcerated, global health projects, and teaching nursing & midwifery students, and Family Practice residents. She is currently semi-retired and just doing ambulatory care. She knew Sister Angela for over 45 years and misses her greatly!
Diana R. Jolles, PhD, CNM, CMMI, is a Maternal Fellow serving within the Learning and Diffusion Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Jolles is a public health nurse-midwife and health sciences researcher with over 26 years of experience. Jolles began serving as a National Health Service Corps Scholar in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, where she was mentored in appropriate use, accreditation, grant writing and management and healthcare financing. Jolles is an experienced service director recognized for leading the family-centered expansion of midwifery into the intrapartum program at Denver Health Medical Center as well as the programmatic development and expansion of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, DC. Jolles has published over 25 peer reviewed publications, mostly around the topic of quality metrics and unwarranted variations in care to childbearing Medicaid beneficiaries. Jolles has maintained continuous appointments to the National Quality Forum, Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard Workgroup, Child and Adult Stakeholder Workgroup, and a multitude of ACOG and ACNM committees since 2001.
Jackie Griggs, CNM, is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has been practicing in the Houston/Beaumont area for the past 35 years. She is a mom of 5 grown sons, 3 born at home with the help of midwives. – Two grandchildren and a new grand baby just recently. She has helped mainly with home and birth center births, but has worked in the hospital some as well. She is the owner of a birth center in Beaumont, – Birth Center of Beaumont – and also helps with home births in the Houston area. She has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers, until just recently, and still is a very big advocate for midwifery care at a birth center or home, for the women of this country. She is also focused on training new midwifery students and helping to increase the number of birth centers in Texas and the United States
Marya Axner was has spent the past 30 years as an activist working against oppression of all kinds and also working as parent educator. She speaks and leads workshops on the topic of anti-Semitism and racism on college campuses, at social justices organizations, and at worker organizations. Fifteen years ago she was the Director of a parents program in the Somerville Public Schools, supporting parents to be involved in their children’s education. She has worked as a Multicultural Consultant for collaborative of schools near Boston. She has also worked for the non-profit, Everyday Democracy, which encourages people to have small group discussions that lead to lasting change. Marya also worked in the Education Department of the Jewish Women’s Archive where she wrote curricula about Jewish women’s history More recently, she was the Director of the New England Jewish Labor Committee, where she organized the Jewish Community to stand up with workers for their rights.
Marya Axner has taught listening skills through Re-evaluation Counseling for many years. Axner has also been active in United to End Racism (UER) is a project of Re-valuation Counseling. United to End Racism is group of people of all backgrounds in many countries who are dedicated to eliminating racism in the world. UER does this by teaching people to listen to each other, thereby undoing the damage done to people through racism and thus enabling people to speak out about racism, interrupt it when it happens, make deep friendships with people of different races, and take leadership in removing racism from society’s institutions
She was the Regional Director of the New England Jewish Labor Committee (NE JLC) for 12 years. She is currently working with the Jewish Climate Action Network, working on legislation that will support the transition away from fossil fuels. She is also active in Fix the Grid, which wants the Independent Systems Operator of New England (ISO NE) to become more democratic in its governance of our electric grid, which is mostly energized by fossil fuels at this time.
Jessica Gonzales, LM, CPM, co-founder and midwife at Heart of Houston Birth and Wellness Center in central Houston and Paige Hopkins, Doula and Program Director for the Whole Heart Collective at the Heart of Houston. Hear all about the collective options and see how Houston benefits from this work which greatly contributes to changing our birth and parenting community.