Healing Ourselves Heals Our Hoods

Final conversation of this series granted Jocelyn Gama Garcia and I the opportunity to express the beauty and creativity that exists in our hoods. While we also experience oppression and lack of resources, we recognize that even what we have is just enough sometimes. Like roses that grow out of concrete, we flourish in spaces not meant for growth. Tune in here or on Healing Ourselves Heals Our Hoo...

Hood Made : Systematic Oppression, Impacts on Mental Health and a hopeful Resilience with Johnnie Hines. Together, we talked about the struggles happening in our hoods that don’t exist in other communities of privilege. We advocate on the impacts it can and has held on many of our mental health and our ability/ lack thereof to cope and conquer through the unprocessed emotions.  To end, we illumina...

On this episode, we share this space with our guest speaker Shamawn Wright who illuminates the struggle being raised in East Oakland and Antioch. With his personal experience and he empowers folks to understand the hustle and its connection to poverty in our communities. Together we discuss code switching, impacts of professionalism on our authentic identities, and the importance of finding the be...

With this new series, you find that this episode helps us to reflect on some of the experiences we had being raised in the hood. I share my experience with community violence, gun violence, police brutality, and the beauty/ creativity that comes from these communities. Sharing my own personal experiences with oppression faced here, might open up the conversations needed for us to begin to have as...

On episode four, we are hosting a valuable conversation about the generational parenting styles and the forms of harsh discipline experienced in our homes. We dig deeper to describe the long-term impacts on our ability to show up for ourselves as adults from these experiences. Our guest speaker Fabiola Arreola, who is a mother of two beautiful daughters aged 7 and 1 comes through to share her jour...

We are joined in this episode by Johnnie Hines who was raised in Antioch, CA. We engage in a deep and reflective conversation about the generational expectations of remaining silent when it comes to our trauma, our emotions, and much more. When we hear, "What happens in this house, stays in the house!" we are reminded of the years of invalidation many of us have endured. We explore the impacts thi...

On episode two (2) our guest speaker is in fact my mother; Mama Carmen. She vulnerably shares the impacts of generational trauma and the hardships faced when breaking those chains of trauma. She shares her struggles as a single mother as well as some of the sacrifices she was forced to make in order to raise her children. She is well known in her community for her parenting styles, her wisdom, and...

There are many households where family dynamics play a major role in the way we deal and handle witnessed or experienced trauma. Trauma can impact individual family members differently, affecting their relationships with each other and the overall functioning of the family unit. Even if the same trauma is experienced in a household, it can impact all differently. Listen to hear real life testimoni...