Hey, Uprooted Fam 👋🏾 thank you for tuning into ‘Uproot Your Thoughts’ on the Uprooted Network. This is the segment where we examine our lives, thoughts, and trauma as we build the bridge to the lives we want to live. Because we often form our beliefs and thoughts from what we see and hear this space focuses on pulling out the negative and rerooting ourselves in positivity.
In today’s episode Hanna, or Rutha as the fam calls her, dives into a deep conversation with the lovely Selamawit. They got to dig into the journey they've both taken to understand their personal identities and what support if any existed in their #Tigrayan # EastAfrican communities. Selamawit does amazing work in the education sector to make it more equitable, and a truly nurturing environment for our generations to come. Her forever learner attitude is highlighted and weaved into her approach to life.
Let us know what part spoke to you in the comments ❤️
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Timestamps:
3:10 Selamawit’s introduction
6:30 Selamawit shares what she does for a living
9:50 discussing the value of education from immigrant parents
12:55 checking in with Selamawit to see how her heart is
15:40 Selamawit checking in with me
19:30 what self-exploration and personal identity looks like and defining it
27:00 discussing grief and how authors & poets have helped Selamawit cope
32:00 touching on the impact of grief
34:15 Hanna shares a past journal from November
40:50 Selamawit shares her experience, what her process of self-exploration looked like and how to cope with certain emotions
49:20 the need to let yourself feel the emotions as they come and release
55:10 discussing how relationship dynamics may change overtime
59:30 touching on how relationships provide mirrors
1:05:00 Selamawit closes with what she wants to reroot herself in, what seeds she’s planting now and what seeds she’d like to leave behind
