Content warning: This episode discusses topics of mental health, suicide and child loss, please take care and consider whether this is the right time for you to listen. This talanoa will still be available for you to listen to if and when the time is right for you.
Paige Mafi permanently marks skin to alchemise grief and shame, to capture the journeys of parenthood and to acknowledge fertility, miscarriage and loss. This practice and these journeys are reflections of her own experiences throughout her life.
Paige shares her talanoa from behind the marks she puts on people and how she has learned to process, live and grow through grief and loss; she shares intimate moments of love and joy with her family and community and her reflections on integrity, spirituality and overcoming narcissistic abuse.
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