Addressing generational trauma is essential to healing but accessing the wounds that need to be healed can be emotionally draining work. Psychotherapist Chioko Grevious communes with her village as they delve into the beauty, love and complexities of Black families, generational joy and trauma and their Black experiences. Each episode contains powerful and thought provoking conversations that can bring tears but will be a source of humor, love, connection and understanding. You will gain insight into, not only yourself but your own village, your family and the community surrounding you.
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Addressing generational trauma is essential to healing but accessing the wounds that need to be healed can be emotionally draining work. Psychotherapist Chioko Grevious communes with her village as they delve into the beauty, love and complexities of Black families, generational joy and trauma and their Black experiences. Each episode contains powerful and thought provoking conversations that can bring tears but will be a source of humor, love, connection and understanding. You will gain insight into, not only yourself but your own village, your family and the community surrounding you.
Helicopter Moms? We're Fine with That (Insert Jordan Shrug): A Conversation with Niambi Lewis
Cocoa Butter and Communion
1 hour 36 minutes 39 seconds
1 year ago
Helicopter Moms? We're Fine with That (Insert Jordan Shrug): A Conversation with Niambi Lewis
Hey Village! Happy May! Happy pre-Mothers Day for y'all who celebrate yourself as mamas or you celebrate others as mamas.
One of my favorite people stops by and we ask ourselves, is being a helicopter mom such a bad thing? Or is it the epitome of loving your kids? My guest, Niambi Lewis, and I talk about raising our sons, the relationship we have with them, and becoming the mothers that we are proud of. We also share about relationships changing and rediscovering self. She also beat me in Black Trivia but it was close. We both put up a fight (the game went multiple rounds).
Niambi Lewis leads the Perinatal Equity Section at which houses the Black Infant Health Program, Perinatal Equity Initiative, two programs designed to support Black women and birthing people in having healthy pregnancies. For over 20 years, she has been employed by the State of California with over a decade of that service working within departments in the Health and Human Services Agency, supporting her desire to work for programs that serve communities most impacted by the effects of structural racism. She is the mother, wife, sister and daughter to some of the most AMAZING people in the world. A self-sorted Ravenclaw, she loves all things Harry Potter, concerts and traveling. An ideal day would include reading a good book while taking a bubble bath.
Niambi is reading a book that has 59 parts to it and it is an almost Harry Potter themed book.
I am reading "We Should All Be Millionaires" by Rachel Rodgers
Follow the show on IG @groundedrootscollective and check out my new website www.groundedrootscollective.com here you will find show videos (hopefully soon), information about therapy, and so much more :).
Cocoa Butter and Communion
Addressing generational trauma is essential to healing but accessing the wounds that need to be healed can be emotionally draining work. Psychotherapist Chioko Grevious communes with her village as they delve into the beauty, love and complexities of Black families, generational joy and trauma and their Black experiences. Each episode contains powerful and thought provoking conversations that can bring tears but will be a source of humor, love, connection and understanding. You will gain insight into, not only yourself but your own village, your family and the community surrounding you.