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Everything is the Best

Normalize It: Breaking the Silence Around Pregnancy Loss with Dr. Jessica Zucker

Everything is the Best

Dear Media, Pia Baroncini

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode features the deeply compassionate and groundbreaking voice of Dr. Jessica Zucker, a Los Angeles–based psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health. With a PhD in clinical psychology and a master’s in public health, Jessica has become a powerful advocate for breaking the silence around pregnancy loss and the complex realities of motherhood.

Her first book, I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement, sparked a global conversation about grief, healing, and the need for honest storytelling. Today, we’re here to talk about her new book, Normalize It—a call to challenge stigma, embrace nuance, and make space for the full spectrum of human experience, particularly in relation to women’s health, identity, and mental well-being.

Jessica is also the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, which continues to create powerful ripple effects across communities worldwide.


Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and sensitive topics related to reproductive and mental health. Please take care while listening.


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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:15.5

Hello, my darlings.

0:17.1

Today's episode features the deeply compassionate and groundbreaking voice of Dr. Jessica Zucker,

0:21.8

a Los Angeles-based psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health.

0:27.3

She has a PhD in clinical psychology and a master's in public health.

0:31.0

And Jessica has become a powerful advocate for breaking the silence around pregnancy loss

0:36.6

and the complex realities of motherhood.

0:39.7

Her first book, I Had a Miscarriage, A Memoir, a Movement, sparked a global conversation about grief, healing, and the need for honest storytelling.

0:48.5

And today we're here to talk about her new book, Normalize It, a call to challenge stigma, embrace nuance, and make space for the full

0:56.0

spectrum of human experience, particularly in relation to women's health, identity, mental

1:01.4

well-being, and in my case, being the mother of a neurodivergent child.

1:06.2

Jessica is also the creator of the viral I Had a Miscarriage Campaign, which continues to

1:10.2

create powerful

1:10.9

ripple effects across communities worldwide. I want to give you a trigger warning. This episode

1:15.4

includes a very big discussion about pregnancy loss and sensitive topics related to reproductive

1:21.8

health, mental health, and motherhood. So please take care while listening. Jessica, thank you so

1:27.3

much for coming on. Thank you so much for coming on.

1:28.2

Thank you so much for having me.

1:29.9

I'm so honored to have a copy of this book in my hands.

1:32.2

Yay.

1:33.0

This is your second book.

1:33.8

It's here.

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