Colorism Healing with Dr. Sarah L. Webb

This is another episode in my special series where I recreate some of my most popular blog posts into an audio experience. This episode is based on a 2013 blog post by the same title. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, training, and coaching.* ✨ Coaching & Support Groups: http://colorismhealing.com/coach 📘 Self-Affirmation Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XLFH93J 📕 Children's Colori...

After my analysis of mothers and colorism last week and my earlier discussions of fathers and families , I want to step beyond analysis and commentary and speak more directly to strategies for breaking generational cycles of colorism. This week I'm discussing the 5 important environments parents and guardians must curate and maintain in order to help stop the cycle of colorism within their familie...

This is the second episode in a new limited series where I recreate some of my all-time favorite blog posts into audio experiences. This episode is from a 2013-ish blog post by the same title. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* ✨ Coaching: http://colorismhealing.com/coach 📕Children's Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF5SH49 📗Children's Workbook: https://w...

I'm calling this blog post "Mothers and Colorism: Expanded Edition" because this is an update and expansion on the original post written a decade ago. My objective this time around is still to explain some of the more common ways that mothers perpetuate colorism within their families. I also had a more recent discussion on colorist fathers , but there I focused specifically on their impact on daug...

A bonus episode in a new limited series where I recreate some of my all-time favorite blog posts into audio experiences. This episode is from a 2015 blog post titled: "Brave Love is Beautiful." *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* ✨ Coaching: http://colorismhealing.com/coach 📕Children's Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF5SH49 📗Children's Workbook: https://...

This week continues the discussion on how we go about unlearning skin color bias. Get caught up on part 1 here . While last week we tackled the overarching strategy, this week we get to explore the novelty of various activities that can help us execute or implement the overall strategies I shared last time. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* ✨ Coaching: http://coloris...

Last week (and several years ago !) I unpacked the notion that colorism is " just a preference ." This week is all about how we can unlearn skin tone bias aka skin tone preference bka colorism. I'll be sharing some of the mindsets and activities that have helped me and my clients see significant transformations in how we move through the world. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and...

It's one thing to argue that skin color preference is socially conditioned. It's another thing to clarify why that matters. I wrote a post years ago called "Preference or Prejudice" that I want to cite and expound on this week. But I want to put greater focus on what's next once we understand the roots of  those preferences.   *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching...

I'm continuing the conversation I started last week (but that's really been a lifetime coming). I talked about being a single dark-skinned Black girl, reflecting mainly on my childhood and young adulthood context. Today I want to reflect more on my adult life, being a single dark skinned Black woman . Where we at now?? *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* ✨ Coaching: ht...

I've been wanting to talk about being a single, dark-skinned girl for awhile now, but I struggled to organize my thoughts on the topic and pinpoint what exactly I had to say about it. It's also a vulnerable topic for me, and I wasn't sure I was ready to publicly engage this subject, even though I've skimmed the surface a bit in my recent content. So this week, I'm simply going to start. I'm not pu...

This week's conversation was partly inspired by a Thursday Thoughts newsletter I wrote awhile back. Someone asked me during a live stream: "How are you so confident?" Or something along those lines. I pondered it for a bit, and came to an interesting conclusion. I'm probably not the first person to think of it this way, but I'm sharing it here based on my personal experience as a potential pathway...

Healing from colorism doesn't just happen and it doesn't just happen over night. Think of colorism healing less as a destination that you get to or a task you complete, and think of it more as change in your everyday habits or a change in your lifestyle. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* 📕Children's Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF5SH49 📗Children's Wor...

My Instagram live stream for this week falls on Valentine's Day! While I've never really made a big deal of this day, I felt inspired to celebrate with my audience this year by dedicating my entire live to showing love for dark skin people, especially women, girls, and femmes. Below are the prepared affirmations I share, but be sure to watch the recording to hear the affirmations I read from my au...

Continuing from last week's conversation about the impact of colorism on self-esteem for dark-skinned girls and women , I'm spending the next few weeks, all of February, to elaborate on cultivating self love for dark-skinned women and girls. I'm kicking it off with the idea of learning to love your dark skin. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* 📕Children's Coloring Boo...

The past two weeks, I've discussed colorism as explicit prejudice and colorism as implicit bias . This week, I want to talk about the impact of colorism on self esteem for dark skin girls. We most often talk about bias and prejudice as it pertains to our feelings about other people. But what happens when we internalize colorism and direct those prejudices and biases against ourselves? I'll also to...

Are you colorist and don't even know it? Last week we discussed the explicit prejudice of colorism. Building on that conversation, let's consider colorism as implicit bias . *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching.* 📕Children's Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF5SH49 📗Children's Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1724660381 📘Colorism Healing Journal Prompts: h...

Sometimes, colorism is very subtle. Other times, it's glaring us in the face. That's when colorism is expressed as an explicit prejudice . I want to start with identifying and understanding the explicit prejudice of colorism because 1) it's easy for people just learning about this issue, and 2) we must remember that many people consciously choose colorism. *Dr. Webb is available for speaking, cons...

Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Buy Books: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B07DZRQ4GP Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colorism/ #colorism #colourism #colorismo

Hey Podcast Fam! Due to the nature of this week's live, I could not use my microphone to record me *and* the guest, so for the most consistent audio quality between both of us, I'm using the audio pulled from the video file. My apologies for a less polished audio this week. It's still very much worth your time!!! Bio: Viva (Satirella) is a fourth year student at Cornell University who has a keen i...

Consider this a mini memoir via live conversation! Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg #colorism #colourism #colorismo

This week's topic was inspired by the most current movie being called out for colorism, The Harder They Fall, because the light-skinned, mixed-race actress Zazie Beetz was cast to play Stagecoach Mary (Mary Fields), a very dark-skinned woman who was the first woman to deliver U.S. mail. The more I learn about Mary Fields, the more obvious it becomes that the colorism in The Harder They Fall is bla...

Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg #colorism #colourism #colorismo

Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg #colorism #colourism #colorismo

Continuing the conversation from last week on the warning signs that you have colorist friends , here I share some strategies for dealing with those kind of friends. Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg #colorism #colo...

More to come next week when I share 10 (or more) approaches to dealing with colorist friends! Dr. Webb is available for speaking, consulting, and coaching. Website: http://colorismhealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colorismhealing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJaKP2phKzkRj4iI3iA1eg #colorism #colourism #colorismo