Kinnected

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! You do not need more willpower. You need more relationships.  For the season one finale of Kinnected,  we ( Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in the United States) look back at what the ten episodes (including that one bonus episode!) taught us about collective care, sustainable mental health, and the kind of connection...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! A support group that keeps meeting after the facilitator leaves may sound like the script from a movie, but it actually happened and it changed how we think about community care.  In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in the United States, talk through Gitika’s experience launching a virtual student...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika bring their licensed mental health professional hats to the idea of support groups and communities as worthy additions to individual therapy. We chew on the question of what actually helps people come together, stay together, and care for each other in ways that last? We reflect on the human hunger for...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Community is supposed to be where we feel held, but what happens when it is also where we get hurt? We sit down as two licensed mental health professionals to talk about the side of collective care that rarely gets named: the inconvenience, the exhaustion, the conflict, and the fear that showing up again will cost too much. If “find your peopl...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Tolu is away at a training and we are trying something new! Bonus episodes where we record solo, share poems or other writings that we want to share with each other and YOU! So in this episode, I record one of my favorite poems, a poem that also has some contested history!  “Safe space” is one of the kindest phrases we use in community work an...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Values show up when things get real: the job offer that looks good on paper, the conflict you keep avoiding, the moment you realize you’re exhausted from making the same hard choice over and over.  We’re Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals, and we’re back to talk about values as a lived practice for mental health, relatio...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Grief doesn’t come with an action plan. It shows up, it changes the air in the room, and it refuses to be “solved” by working harder or thinking differently. Today we sit with what happens when death and loss break into ordinary life, and why grief can feel like love with nowhere to go. We also talk about the quiet social rule so many of us le...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! “Boundaries” can sound like a clean solution, but real relationships are messier than a script. We start from that tension and ask a more honest question: how do we set limits in relationships without turning connection into control, and without abandoning ourselves to keep the peace? We break down what boundaries actually are and why the term...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! We explore interdependence as a grounded practice of collective care, not a feel-good idea, and we name how it reshapes the way we do relationships. We unpack the responsibilities that come with being connected, including conflict, repair, and showing up for each other through the hard parts of being human. • interdependence as “hanging betwee...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! We explore how relationship, rest, and even play become the real infrastructure for sustainable care work.  Going solo sounds like freedom until your body realises you’re also payroll, scheduling, marketing, admin, and clinical care all at once. We get honest about the emotional and nervous system reality of moving from a W-2 employee life to...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! What if the most durable force in a collapsing world isn’t power, but relationship? We, Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in Texas and Washington, kick off our podcast about relationships and collective. Kinnected is a play on the words Connected and Kinship, and this podcast begins by tracing how our paths crossed thro...

Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Kinnected , the mental health and wellness podcast! We are your hosts, Gitika Talwar, a psychologist and mental health practitioner, and Tolu Mejolagbe, a mental health counselor. We are both based in the United States but with ancestors in other parts of the world! This trailer introduces you to our podcast, Kinnected (a play on th...