Healing is the Revolution is a collection of podcast series brought to you by the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES), a community-based public health non-profit founded in New Orleans in 1993. The first podcast is "Healing is the Revolution," a soulful, intimate, and honest one-on-one conversation with IWES' Founder, noted psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr. Denese Shervington, and a guest. Individuals share intimate - and at times tragic - stories of creating successful lives beyond their traumatic beginnings and for some, untreated experiences. The series features a range of guests: each episode a personal story revealing joys, pains, and a path to healing. Dr. Shervington pulls from her training and study in both eastern and western healing modalities to guide these explorations of past, present, and future. In her own words, she describes the podcast as a place where “everyday people like us bare our souls as we try to learn from each other the naked truth of living.”

The second series is "Should I Get A Doula?," an exploratory journey into the world of doulas and doula care so that host Iman Shervington, IWES' Sr. Director of Media & Communications, — a 40 year-old Black women without kids yet — can decide whether or not a doula is right for her. Over five episodes, Iman speaks with doulas, people who gave birth with a doula, and an OB-GYN to answer every question she could think of relating to doulas and how they can support healthy pregnancies, especially for Black families, who disproportionately have the worst pregnancy outcomes in the United States. Whether you're planning for pregnancy, are curious about becoming a doula, want to know information for the future, or haven't even thought about it yet, through open dialogue and frank and honest stories, this podcast shares a lot of wisdom that you need to know.

The third series is, "The In Between," which explores what it means to live between climate-based disaster cycles. This podcast will go between two places — New Orleans and Jamaica — two time periods — 2005 and 2025 — and two hurricanes — Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Melissa. Hosted by Iman Shervington, Senior Director of Media & Communications at the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies, The In Between, goes between conversations with community, non-profit, and government leaders in New Orleans recorded in 2025, twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, and conversations with first responders and healthcare workers in Jamaica recorded in June 2026, eight months after Hurricane Melissa. In each episode, their experiences, reflections, warnings, and survival stories are put in dialogue with one another to think through what is needed to adapt to our current reality as individuals, as communities, and as a global society.