Lucile GOMEZ
The brilliant woman you're about to hear changed my life. Or rather, one of the books she wrote changed my life. I'm one of those who believe that beyond embellishing our lives, books are the bedrock of our changing perspectives, our best allies in times of questioning and storms, the boosters of our realignments. And this book, I know I'm not the only one whose eyes it opened. I sincerely believe it's of public utility. That's why, from the very beginning of creating this podcast, I dreamed of welcoming its author, Lucile, behind my microphone. In this famous book, now a bestseller, entitled "Birth in Comics: Discover Your Superpowers," Lucile talks to us about childbirth on a very well-documented basis, but also with a lot of humor. And contrary to what many people may think, giving birth is not just a "girl thing," as she so aptly puts it. Quite simply because we were all babies once, and because I believe, like her, that the way we welcome newborns into this world is also emblematic of the way we treat humanity afterwards.
Lucile is an illustrator and comic book author. But she didn't immediately focus on the subject of motherhood. It was her first childbirth that was the inspiration for volume 1 of the comic book birth, because right afterward, while talking with friends, she realized that the information she had received, unfortunately, wasn't available to everyone. She wanted to change that, and that's where it all started: when Lucile decided that women needed to know. In this comic book, she explains the basics of childbirth physiology, with the aim of informing. So that women have a choice in this unique and important moment of their lives. The choice to give birth as they wish, where they wish, and with whomever they wish. And because Lucile is convinced that giving women back intimate knowledge of how their bodies work is giving them back their power. And that, precisely, childbirth should more often be synonymous with power than with suffering. Superpowers are a theme dear to ENVOL, and it is also the common thread of Lucile's work, now available in 3 volumes.
The one who became the designated illustrator in her class when she was little, and who continued to draw when everyone else stopped. The one who never managed to choose between making illustrations and telling stories, and who is never separated from her little cat MéphistoFélix, nor from her unfailing humor. The one whose assertive feminism today serves the most beautiful of objectives: that of increasing the confidence and the little-known power of those who give life. Lucile, the talented, the committed, the funniest of illustrators, agreed without hesitation to speak to ENVOL.
Lucile is an illustrator and comic book author. But she didn't immediately focus on the subject of motherhood. It was her first childbirth that was the inspiration for volume 1 of the comic book birth, because right afterward, while talking with friends, she realized that the information she had received, unfortunately, wasn't available to everyone. She wanted to change that, and that's where it all started: when Lucile decided that women needed to know. In this comic book, she explains the basics of childbirth physiology, with the aim of informing. So that women have a choice in this unique and important moment of their lives. The choice to give birth as they wish, where they wish, and with whomever they wish. And because Lucile is convinced that giving women back intimate knowledge of how their bodies work is giving them back their power. And that, precisely, childbirth should more often be synonymous with power than with suffering. Superpowers are a theme dear to ENVOL, and it is also the common thread of Lucile's work, now available in 3 volumes.
The one who became the designated illustrator in her class when she was little, and who continued to draw when everyone else stopped. The one who never managed to choose between making illustrations and telling stories, and who is never separated from her little cat MéphistoFélix, nor from her unfailing humor. The one whose assertive feminism today serves the most beautiful of objectives: that of increasing the confidence and the little-known power of those who give life. Lucile, the talented, the committed, the funniest of illustrators, agreed without hesitation to speak to ENVOL.
Together, we deconstructed many beliefs attached to the moment of birth. We talked about how men took their place in a universe that was until then exclusively feminine, the very delicate subject of epidurals, how our human mind can hinder our mammalian brain, the political dimension of birth today in France. And then above all, we talked about how we can replace the glasses of pathology with the glasses of confidence on the big day, and that is an invaluable key to spreading your wings!
Come on, let's go! With Lucile today, we'll breathe life into your wings.
So listen carefully. Deploy them. And fly.