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How Our Own Wounds Impact Our Interactions with Amber Onteveros
In this episode, Jill interviews Amber Onteveros, author and advocate for civil rights. They take on the topic of the intersection between spirituality and healing and DEI work. Listen as Amber guides Jill through a deeply personal and profound healing exercise, as an example of the work she does with her clients.
Is it possible to have it both ways?
I've been thinking a lot about the both/and of things. Ever since I learned about this concept a few years ago, it keeps getting more and more relevant. Also called dialectics, the both/and allows us to hold space for more than one thing to be true at one time, even if it seems like they might be opposed to each other. Without taking anything away from that other thing.
Societal Biases And the School System with Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Laura Chávez-Moreno. They cover the topic of how our societal biases seep into the school system and create early segregation and false perceptions of our children.
Communicating Across Lines of Difference with Toni Simmons Henson
In this episode, Jill interviews Toni Simmons Henson, executive director of The Southeastern Theatre Conference. They focused on the trauma of and challenges of communicating across lines of difference, the impact of making a political statement just by showing up in a room as oneself, and the importance of self-care for women and mothers who tend to give everything of themselves to their families and can forget to prioritize their own needs.
Exhaustion in healthcare
Because it can be difficult to connect to your emotions when you’re that exhausted, watch as I demonstrate a technique that allows my clients to focus on the physical sensations of the exhaustion, rather than only the emotions.
The Current Landscape in DEI with Dr. Christen BehzadI
In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Christen Behzadi, a board-certified anesthesiologist. They talked about the current landscape in DEI and the benefit of meeting organizations where they are in terms of their readiness to do DEI work.
When you receive difficult news about your health
One of my clients was recently diagnosed with a serious medical disease, and she was sharing with me that it was hard to know how to manage all of the different feelings that are coming up for her. One minute she’s sad, the next minute she’s angry, the next she’s optimistic about her ability to fight for her health, the next she’s overwhelmed, and the next she’s worried about how her illness will impact her family.
What I learned from a tiny carrot
I harvested the world's tiniest carrot from our garden yesterday.
In a previous newsletter, I shared that we started our first garden at the end of the summer. We planted spinach, little gem lettuce, mesclun greens, carrots, beets, and radishes, all from seeds. We transplanted cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and kale from seedlings that I grew indoors for the first time. Big plans with big expectations.
Engaging in activism despite setbacks with Marisa Pyle
In this episode, Jill interviews Marisa Pyle, an anti-zionist organizer.
You’re not broken (and you don’t need to be ‘fixed’)
As a trauma-informed tapping practitioner, one of my deepest values is that each of us is enough, exactly as we are. While we may do work to improve things in our lives and heal from trauma, we aren’t ‘broken’, and we don’t need to be ‘fixed’. Watch as I demonstrate how to tap through the self-limiting belief of thinking that we’re broken. One of the things you’ll want to do is include that belief in your set-up statement.