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On the long way back from grief, political turmoil, heartbreak, and the path we forge to new life.

Welcome to Episode 40: Abide, on how to live in the questions when you've run out of answers. In this episode, rekindling parental relationships, facing yourself after a breakup, and leaving home.

"I learned to give myself up joyfully to the inevitability of my life." -Lang Leav, September Love. In this episode: walking away from our careers, friendships that have run their course, old insecurities towards new love. Happy 6 Years ASK VIV <3

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

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

Welcome back! This episode is all about Struggle, why we avoid it when we should embrace it, the creation of ease, making an enemy of yourself, wishing death to your enemies, and why love is the hardest warfare. To submit a question anonymously for next week's episode, please visit: http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Welcome to Episode 27! In light of these trying times and the spirit of Ramadan, I come to you with this episode on faith. Here, we discuss how I found Islam (or better how it found me), the shortcomings of prosperity preaching, prayer and intuition and more! To submit a question for next week's episode please visit http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Welcome to Episode 26: Crossroads. On today's show, we're faced with confronting the changing future before us and relinquishing our expectations of what we thought it might be. Canceled graduations, misplaced love, and failed expectations from role models, on this episode we dive into creating a whole new world. To submit a question anonymously for next week's show, please visit http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Welcome to Episode 25: Seeking Relief. This week, we're talking how to survive calamity on a micro and macro scale. In this episode: asking for help, how to focus on work while sheltered in place, reenvisioning your future, and building a sanctuary in yourself. To submit questions anonymously for next week's episode, please visit: http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Happy Birthday ASK VIV! This 2nd anniversary episode is all about SEX: consent, complicity, compromise, and choice. We will discuss the transactional nature of sex in modern society, losing your virginity, loving your body, why consent culture falls short, and more. To submit a question for our next episode please visit: http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 2 " I am what I am" where we discuss the intense pain of finding out who you are, the strength that comes in knowing, and the danger in never finding out. To submit a question for next week's episode please visit: http://biancavivion.tumblr.com/ask

Welcome Back After a season long hiatus, your favorite commentator returns with an episode more honest, insightful, and tender than ever. Episode 1 "Standing in the Need" is all about finding peace in needing others, learning how to live without others, and encouraging yourself. On this episode we'll answer what to do when you're graduating, a culture of codependency, filling the void, and more!