OVERexpressed & OUT

OVERexpressed & OUT

by Jenny Burkholder and Roseanne Liberti

Society & Culture Personal Journals

Season 2

Jacqui Bauers: Joint Joint, founder & Massage Therapist

Jacqui Bauers is a licensed massage therapist who has been practicing massage therapy for 15 years. She has worked with adults and children and specializes in oncology massage. Currently, she is part of the Integrative Health Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, working with children going through cancer treatment. She has also worked with Unite For Her as a provider of oncology massage for breast and ovarian cancer patients and has been involved with many of Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s events for the breast cancer community. Along with her massage work, she is also the founder of Joint Joint, a company that produces organic, full spectrum hemp, CBD balm and other topicals to soothe aches and promote stress relief. It is her passion to help people find their way to feeling good through advancing the role of integrative therapies in medical care and by sharing her love of plant based medicine via Joint Joint’s products. Joint Joint products are being used on cancer patients struggling with neuropathy at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Hospital. The director of palliative care was given a sample by a patient who already had experience with the product. He got in touch and stated that he found Joint Joint to be significantly better than other topicals he has tried from dispensaries in his travels. They have consistently ordered Joint Joint for use on patients struggling with neuropathy for over a year now. More recently, Penn Medicine’s Head and Neck surgery office has purchased samples Joint Joint multiple times to give to patients, as part of a cancer survivorship program. Initially, a nurse practitioner in the office was given a sample by someone on her team, and she found it to be effective for soothing some of the side effects of treatment for head and neck cancers. Individuals trying to cope with the effects of cancer treatment have provided feedback as well. For example, recently a woman contacted Joint Joint to explain she has severe neuropathy from her ovarian cancer treatment. She shared that Joint Joint’s balm is the only thing that helps her cope with it and gives her enough relief to do her daily activities.

Janice Hayes-Cha: Mixed Media Artist

Janice Hayes-Cha creates vibrant, mixed media collages from recycled greeting cards, a technique she devised while recovering from cancer. Her work has depth and texture, and reveals surprises for the astute observer. She loves to capture the complexity of iconic places in both her hometown of Boston, where she lives now, and her second love, Philadelphia, where she lived for five years. Janice is a recipient of two Leeway Foundation Art and Change grants, has exhibited and won awards in numerous juried exhibitions, has permanent installations in numerous medical and corporate settings including Boston Children’s Hospital and Einstein Medical Center. Her work can be found on www.janicehayescha.com.

Season Two Reflections with Jenny & Roseanne

Welcome to Season Two of OVERexpressed & OUT! In Season Two Reflections, Jenny & Roseanne share their insights on their guests' messages of transformation, focus and discipline, and healing.

Three Years & Counting

Roseanne & Jenny reflect on "cancerversaries," spring weather, and Season Three! Check out Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s #TellUsTuesday’s responses to “How do you acknowledge cancer anniversaries? Stay tuned for March 22, 2024 launch of Season Three of OVERexpressed & OUT. In the meantime, share your thoughts, responses, and ideas on overexpressedandout.com Until then, we’re OVERexpressed & OUT!

Doing the Wobble with GetMoPhit's Founder

Season One's Morgan (Burrell) Downey shares her joys--wedding, moving, and being her true self . Tune into Season One’s episode with Morgan (Burrell) Downey.

A 2024 OVERexpressed & OUT Chat with poet Jacinta White

O&O returns to Season One's Jacinta White, who fills us in on "so much goodness". Tune in to OVERexpressed & OUT’s chat with poet Jacinta V. White, founder of the The Word Project and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. Check out I Tried Not to Write, an anthology celebrating Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing (featuring OVERexpressed & OUT co-host Jenny Burkholder!). And join Jacinta and others for weekly Mourning Pages—a free collective space to write, reflect, and process grief.

This Little Light of Mine

Roseanne and Jenny chat the post-treatment hangover, port patency & MLK Jr. Day of Service. At Abington Friends School King Day of Service and Social Justice Symposium, one of the community service opportunities was to make care cups for The Breathing Room Foundation. The Breathing Room Foundation “provides care and support to families affected by cancer and strives to provide families with a bit of ‘breathing room’ from their daily struggle.” “This Little Light of Mine,” lyrics by Henry Loes, adapted by Zilphia Horton, sung by all in attendance, led by Justin Solonynka Subscribe ~ it's FREE! overexpressedandout.com

Happy 2024: Good Face to You!

New Year, New Face! 🥳🥳 Over the course of the next few months, Jenny & Roseanne will be producing Season Three of OVERexpressed & OUT. Like Season One & Two, Season Three’s guests promise to be insightful and inspiring. In the meantime, stay tuned to OVERexpressed & OUT’s Substack for special features, photos, prompts, and reflections. overexpressedandout.com

OVERexpressed & OUT: Season 2 Trailer

OVERexpressed & OUT takes you on an outing that outs amazing women and their outward expression of healing. Subscribe for all the benefits: pictures, poems, prompts, and more. overexpressedandout.com (It's free!)

Season 1

Jacinta White, founder of The Word Project and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing

Today's guest is Jacinta White. She is a teaching artist, poet, certified corporate trainer and facilitator, and advocate for change. Her passion is to help others to better understand the role and value of arts as a tool for healing and building community. In 2001, she founded The Word Project where she works with individuals and groups using art as a catalyst for healing. In 2015, she founded Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing to provide a platform for those to tell their story through poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography.A teacher of "poetry as healer," Jacinta White has studied Poetry Therapy with Dr. Sherry Reiter of the Creative Righting Center and has facilitated alongside John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her chapbook, broken ritual was published by Finishing Line Press (2012), and she's a contributor to My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Writings of African American Daughters to Their Fathers (SoulDictates, 2005), and editor of Walking With God (Duncan & Duncan, 1996). Jacinta's latest collection of poems-–Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries of the Rural South (Press 53, 2019)The author of Setting Down the sacred past: African american race histories describes White’s lush poetry as, “Part meditation, part prayer, and part act of resurrection that evokes the complex interweaving of ancestry, praise, and everyday interaction that comprise black church life in the South.”

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