Being Human

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Healing is tough, rewarding, confusing and eye opening, but it is always improved when done with community. The Being Human podcast aims to offer a new way for myself, other practitioner’s, guests and listeners to connect in our healing and cultivation of community. Being human is hard under the systems of capitalism, white supremacy and the patriarchy and we want to first and foremost acknowledge these impacts on our sense of suffering and pathways to healing. Then we want to help enrich each other’s minds and cultivate our resources for healing through humans oldest art form, conversation.

  1. 04/20/2023

    Being Birthing Humans is Hard!

    Hey Humans! This episode is for all you humans out there who have either birthed, adopted or had to be the full time caregiver to a human bebe at any point in the first, let's say, 0-3 years of their life. Parenting is hard! It is made even harder by Daddy Capitalism, of course, but also by the terrible idea white supremist came up with called, the Nuclear family. My ancestors said, why have a whole community of big humans and small humans working together to support each other when you can have just one dude and one lady care for 2.5 kiddos and a dog/cat?! Face palm emoji here. I invited my friend, neighbor and fellow social worker, Jessie Gutierrez, on to talk all things bringing humans into this world. Jessie is a LIMPH and specializes in perinatal mental health. Jessie and I both identify as humans who birthed humans who like to use the term, mom or mama, for ourselves. Therefore, we do navigate this conversation using the labels we identify with, but want to make sure anyone who listens knows, this label isn't for everyone who birthed a human or adopted or care gives for one. So when you hear the word, mom, mother, mama, in this episode, know we are including anyone who can share these experiences. Milk Workshttps://milkworks.orgPostpartum Support International (PSI) is a wonderful resource for maternal mental health.  PSI has a Nebraska chapter that can help link moms and families with perinatal providers.  https://psichapters.com/ne/ PSI also has many free online support groups. . https://www.postpartum.net/get-help/psi-online-support-meetings/ Division of Labor The documentary I mentioned is FairPlay by Eve Rodsky. (Also she has a book and podcast). It was streaming on Hulu but here is a link for info. https://www.fairplaylife.com/documentary

    1h 10m
  2. 03/31/2023

    Being Secure in an insecure world

    Hey Humans, this is another super special episode with another super special guest. Being adopted gave me this special gift of being able to naturally and intuitively understand that humans can connect in deep and personal ways. Some call this family, some love and I now would call it community. I speak to every human in my life about building a community of care. To me, this means, understanding that all relationships for which I am involved with another human should involve some aspect of care in order to help cultivate community bonds. These are built when we take care in simple interactions such as being pleasant to the cashier at the store or trying to breath through our stress when stuck in traffic or learning to zipper merge, but having patience for those who haven't. This also means going on vibes when it comes to services you value. Plenty of humans have the skills, you should get things like; medical/dental/any health care, hair stylists, food, emotional support and cultivate joy with humans whom you trust and value. Like I always say, you gotta like your therapist or it isn't gonna work no matter how "qualified" they are. Cultivating a community of care takes a different kind of process than most of us have been taught through our capitalistic colonial systems. I am grateful for my adoption history, my loving family biological and chosen and the many amazing women and men of color and LGBTQ's in my life who have shown me in so many ways what care means, what community means and how important it is to our sense of security in this wild ass world.

    1h 27m

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Healing is tough, rewarding, confusing and eye opening, but it is always improved when done with community. The Being Human podcast aims to offer a new way for myself, other practitioner’s, guests and listeners to connect in our healing and cultivation of community. Being human is hard under the systems of capitalism, white supremacy and the patriarchy and we want to first and foremost acknowledge these impacts on our sense of suffering and pathways to healing. Then we want to help enrich each other’s minds and cultivate our resources for healing through humans oldest art form, conversation.