Welcome to ASK VIV Season 3! On this episode, Bianca Vivion talks the many sources of shame, and how to combat shame through radical self acceptance. On this show: what to do when you can't feel the love of God, sleeping with your best friend's boyfriend, defeating ugliness, and more. My newest book 'Incomplitude' a poetry collection, will be out Oct. 7, available on Amazon and select bookstores worldwide.

Happy 5th Anniversary ASK VIV! Apart of a special double feature A GOOD WOMAN/ A GOOD MAN, this episode ask what the measure of a man is, and why they're so important on a woman's journey to wholeness. In this show-- what to do when he leaves you for a white woman, healing the broken home, and how to become more self aware. 5 Years Later, I loved you then, I love you still. Love always, VIV <3

Welcome to Episode 36: A Good Woman - 5th Anniversary Edition. This episode is all about how our notions of good womanhood must change from servitude to self-acceptance, and the pain, pleasure, and pride of that journey. On this episode: the art of letting go, pleasing our mothers, and why you can't have it all. Thank you all for five wonderful years.. here's to five more! xoxo VIV

This episode is about the Art of Letting Go (of everything else), and the Art of Holding On (to ourselves). What to do when they don't love you anymore, when the dream falls short, and moving through liminal spaces.

“I don’t want to cope anymore, I want to live.” In this episode: warring against what I had in mind, the origins of self love, why women live in a prison of delusion, making an enemy of the self, and letting that old thing go. Dedicated to Cherrie, forever grateful.

Dedicated to all women.

Happy Fourth Birthday ASK VIV! Thank you all for four rewarding, enriching, intimate years of listenership. In this episode, the journey continues, when we explore how to live without knowing why, how to pray, and why dissociation is not always the worst thing for the spirit. To submit questions anonymously for the next episode, please visit http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

On Goodbye

On loving who you really are.

In light of the New Year and the 3rd Anniversary episode of ASK VIV, I took on the heaviest questions yet: how to overcome abuse, acknowledging the past and releasing it anyway, reconciling religion and mental health, and the responsibility of the artist in these times. To submit a question anonymously for the next show, please visit: http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask Featured in this episode: 'Finally' by 702 'Revolutionary Dreams' by Nikki Giovanni