'Transitioning through Identity' w/ Mellay

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Uprooted Network

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Welcome to Uprooted, a space for the ignored and disenfranchised to feel seen and reroot themselves. My name is Hanna Rutha and I created Uprooted because I don't always feel seen in the places I occupy. As an ethnic Tigrayan living in the US, the immigrant label was the one that shaped my life the most. I lived in two worlds all the time and it was completely jarring. Uprooted peels back the real layers of what it means to be removed from the home you were supposed to be born to and find a way to replant yourselves. We're here to support one another as we "find our way back home".

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'Transitioning through Identity' w/ Mellay - #BlackWomenWednesday

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1 hour 11 minutes 39 seconds

3 years ago

'Transitioning through Identity' w/ Mellay - #BlackWomenWednesday

Wrapping up #BlackWomenWednesday with my favorite sis, Mellay! We've been having discussions over the last year as Mellay so vulnerable shares her journey of healing and life after surviving the #TigrayGenocide. This was such a beautifully honest conversation about feeling stuck in the transition of redefining who we are and the lives we live. For anyone going through a transition in life right now, this is the conversation for you! Thanks again to my beautiful sister Mellay for helping me close out the season.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freetigray & https://www.instagram.com/mellayfre/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/freetigray & https://twitter.com/Mellayfre
Website: https://www.freetigray.com/

Timestamp:

1:20 introducing Mellay & manifestations coming full circle

3:20 Mellay's background answering 'who am I' in this transition

5:30 growing up in SF identifying first with being a Black Women

8:00 normalizing the transitions of identity and questioning our sureness in self

9:00 likening her questioning to trauma, not sure where that confidence

10:30 breaking down the negative /stuck place in our mental

13:15 perspective-shifting on identity transformation

14:20 not identifying with trauma

15:20 pre-war Mellay

16:30 defining ourselves by our work and the trap that leaves us in

19:20 can money buy our happiness?

21:40 validating our capacities and need for rest

23:45 what was the reason for her move back to Tigray

26:00 the desire to reconnect our roots

27:50 describing the feeling of transition and being in a cacoon

31:30 not being able to move forward with life

33:00 finding your happiness again

37:15 who do you want to become, and just want that to be home in Tigray

39:00 acknowledging the frustration of not being able to fully answer who we are

43:00 dealing with triggers and pulling ourselves out of them

46:20 taking on things that aren't for us

48:00 the choices we make with the hand we are dealt

52:20 our opportunities will always come back when they are truly meant for us

55:30 spending time manifesting the lives we want

58:00 swimming against the current instead of with it or just floating

1:02:00 journaling & reflecting, remembering her dream meal while starving in the mountains

1:05:00 manifesting for Mellay's life