Hey gang, I wasn't quite off the grid but I did take a break. Fret not though, Tough Love is back today with a very very very important episode about FGM or female genital mutilation. Download and share.

https://www.toughlovepodcast.com/episodes/episode-011-how-to-survive-and-thrive-after-fgm-with-hoda-m-ali

At the age of seven, Somali-born nurse Hoda Ali was subjected to type 3 female genital mutilation (FGM), alongside her six-years-old sister.

At the age of eleven, with Somalia on the bring of civil war, Hoda started experiencing severe medical complications as a consequence of the cutting. She was in and out of hospital for the following six years and eventually ended in the UK as a refugee. The numerous complications still affect her today, over thirty years later.

In this episode Hoda and I talk about how we all bleed the same colour, the importance of calling things by their name, and why she thinks she’s the luckiest girl alive.