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/
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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
