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Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLiving in my SHADOW PT. 1Living in my Shadow part 1 is focused on addressing some of the dark life experiences that has altered Deziana's existence. In this episode, she speaks on heartbreak and grief and how both have changed her for the better or for the worse. She reminds all that life moves in a full circle, you might be at your lowest point,; however, you are close to rising up again. Listen if you struggle with processing grief in the similar ways. You deserve the validation and space to feel too. 2023-07-0827 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsBreakthrough of Daddy IssuesIn this episode, Deziana speaks about a moment she and her father were able to hold a needed and tough conversation about their relationship and barriers that impact their bond. After not speaking for close to two years, she shares how the conversation began full of shouting as anger lead the confrontation. Listen in to hear how grace was able to exist from this conversation. There's a long road of healing for them both; however, Deziana highlights this experience being a place of breakthrough with her father. This is just the start of a long healing journey, but it requires h...2023-06-2930 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsTalk About it Tuesdays: Navigating Rock BottomDeziana is starting this new series of "Talk about it Tuesdays" where she opens up about random topics that are on her mind and other than the theme of the month. In this episode, Deziana shares how the young adults she empowers at work are often faced with suicide ideation. She deeply unravels her own experience battling depression and her own attempt. She advises a Trigger Warning and encourages folks to seek help if they are relating to the material on this episode. Tune in as she sheds light to the struggles many experience silently and isn't talked about enough...2023-04-1224 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLOVE ME. LOVE ME NOT: Red Flags and BoundariesDuring Deziana's healing journey, she began to recognize all the things she once ignored... Those bright red flags! She gives us an example of how she was able to recognize them and create a boundary to honor herself and her self worth. She reminds folks that when people show you who they are, believe it. Listen for the full episode now. 2023-04-1224 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLOVE ME. LOVE ME NOT. Recovering After InfidelityIn this episode, Deziana openly shares how heartbreak due to infidelity, impacted her emotionally and physically. In her past, she describes how she would party and drink to distract herself from the pain and it never truly assisted in her healing. She provides wisdom on how she was able to transform how she dealt with heart break and begin to work on her dating behaviors and boundaries needed to protect her heart. Listen to the full episode for details on how she was able to accomplish this. 2023-04-0628 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLOVE ME. LOVE ME NOT: An Experience of InfidelityIn this episode, Deziana shares a vulnerable experience being cheated on by someone she dated. Here, she shares her initial reaction after the discovery as well as her response after. Deziana's heart has been both impacted and shaped by these moments of infidelity. Listen to hear how she was able to navigate around these experiences and protect her heart. 2023-04-0626 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLOVE ME. LOVE ME NOT: An Experience of InfidelityIn this episode, Deziana shares a vulnerable experience being cheated on by someone she dated. Here, she shares her initial reaction after the discovery as well as her response after. Deziana's heart has been both impacted and shaped by these moments of infidelity. Listen to hear how she was able to navigate around these experiences and protect her heart.
2023-04-0626 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsLOVE ME. LOVE ME NOT. My Experience with a NarcissistIn this solo episode, Deziana opens up about her experience witnessing domestic violence in her parent's relationship and how it heavily influenced the way she perceived love. In her first relationship, she expresses the abuse she endured as well as the mental toll it held on her to date someone who was manipulative and narcissistic. Tune in and learn about her own experience and the ways she was able to understand that she needed help.
If you are someone who struggles dating a narcissist, Deziana encourages you to reach for help. 2023-04-0429 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsDeziana's Struggles with Mental HealthOn this episode, Deziana Torres opens up alone to utilize this space to share her own struggles with mental health. She opens up about the pressures of being the oldest sibling in a single-parent household as well as her own struggles with suicide ideation. She inspires all to hang in there as life will bless us with experiences that remind us why it was worth the fight. Listen and get to know your own host for this podcast. 2023-04-0433 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsOvercoming Trauma and Breaking Generational CursesA QUEEN blesses us with her testimony that covers the topics of domestic abuse, violence, suicidal attempts, sexual abuse, as well as sharing self care tips that have been helpful along her journey. Tajanee Ford- Whelan is a wife of almost 7 years and a mom of 4, a step-son who is 16, an 11 year old and twins who are 6. Tajanee reminded me of the ultimate sacrifice of a mother and the pressure to stay afloat mentally while navigating motherhood. 2023-03-251h 01Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsMental Health; The Male Perspective(T.W) In this episode, we are granted the space to hear about the life experiences and impacts on mental health from Molimau Fatu who is a Samoan self published poet and spoken word artist from Long Beach California. He is also a first generation graduate from CSUDH. He is a newlywed and first generation homeowner. He has also mentored the youth in cities like Compton, Watts, Long Beach, Hawthorne and all over L.A. county. Together we discuss the impacts of sexual assault as well reliving some moments from our childhood. Tap in for some validation, strength, and a...2023-03-1859 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsOUT THE MUD with Esmerilda Rodriguez "Shorty"OUT THE MUD!! This episode was powerful!!! Shout out to Shorty for showing up and sharing her life testing of growing up in the hood, struggles with parents fighting addiction and the impact of grief!! Listen and be inspired by such a valuable life testimony! Remember, we ALL have a story that is worth sharing ! 2023-03-111h 06Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsBreast Cancer While Pregnant with Olivia Turner Navigating breast cancer and pregnancy at the same time with Olivia Turner. She shares the journey of how she found strength when battling cancer as well as describing the joy her daughter brings into her life. We are also empowered to be in tune with our bodies and to check in with ourselves when we feel off, feel lumps, or feeling sick. Investing in our health and wellness is critical for the way we wish to exist in the world. Listen to the full episode for Olivia's advice for those going through something similar. 2023-03-0453 minHealing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsNavigating Parenthood in a RelationshipOn this episode, we are met with Raychel Homen and Estephanie Fuentes who openly share about their relationships during parenthood. Both exchange their unique relationships and the ways they each create similar experiences that others can relate too. Reflective conversations about the impacts incarceration has on the bond between a parent and child and the emotional toll it can hold on all involved. Listen in and live through their life experiences for just a moment. 2023-02-211h 09Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsMOTHERHOOD: Navigation Through Miscarriage and Postpartum DepressionOn this episode, we are joined with a special guest named Rebecca Ferguson who openly shares her experience during and after a miscarriage. Rebecca highlights the emotional impact it holds on one during the grieving process as well as providing insight on her relationship with postpartum depression. Listen for validation or for awareness of some of the struggles many women suffer with in silence. 2023-02-141h 03Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsMOTHERHOOD: Healing During MotherhoodJoin us as we welcome our special guest Anna Creighton who is a mother of two and a wife. Listen as Anna shares her experience navigating through healing and showing up for her family as a mother. Through Anna, we recognize why being gentle with ourselves during motherhood is so critical in the way we show up for our selves and our kids. 2023-02-071h 12Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsEducational Racism/ Oppression: Ethnic Studies and Barriers in our Current Curriculum with Educator David FloresTogether we shared a real conversation about the history of implementing ethnic studies into our courses as well as the benefits held for student success! Topics ranging from identity, intersectionality, oppression and resistance are taught in David's curriculum. Listen as we also discuss some barriers and ways we as a community can get involved and hold our school systems accountable for the “equity, diverse, and inclusive” agenda they proudly proclaim! Pleasure having you as an educator for 200+ students David, and we know that the work only continues. 2022-08-271h 03Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsEducational Racism/ Oppression: Poverty and Food Deserts Amongst College StudentsTune in as Karina Beltran and I engage in conversations about the impacts of poverty and food insecurity amongst college students. So many assume that once we make it into college, the oppression and systemic barriers are no longer experienced. It in fact continues to follow us and impacts our mental and physical health, our confidence, and our academic success. How can we advocate to bring forth the changes needed to address these struggles? Listen and find out what we suggested. 2022-08-181h 02Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsEducation: Navigation Through Oppressive and Racist Systems with a Forced ResiliencyNavigating through racist/oppressive systems with a forced resilience often times cost us our identity, our culture, our history, and so much more. There is often a sacrifice that comes with being a disrupter when you challenge systems in places that are designed to hold policies over people. Listen and tune in as Chino Contreras @3rd.self_ and I share our experiences as experts in the hood navigating through an an MSW programs that uphold oppressive policies. May this conversation spark many to become advocates to highlight the work that is is still needed in our society!2022-08-051h 09Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsHood Made: The Beauty, The Creativity, and Power in CommunityFinal conversation of this series granted Jocelyn Gama Garcia and I the opportunity to express the beauty and creativity that exists in our hoods. While we also experience oppression and lack of resources, we recognize that even what we have is just enough sometimes. Like roses that grow out of concrete, we flourish in spaces not meant for growth. Tune in here or on Healing Ourselves Heals Our Hoods podcast to listen in on this empowering conversation.2022-07-301h 08Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsHood Made: Systematic Oppression, Impacts on Mental Health and a Hopeful ResilienceHood Made: Systematic Oppression, Impacts on Mental Health and a hopeful Resilience with Johnnie Hines. Together, we talked about the struggles happening in our hoods that don’t exist in other communities of privilege. We advocate on the impacts it can and has held on many of our mental health and our ability/ lack thereof to cope and conquer through the unprocessed emotions.
To end, we illuminate the power and importance of holding onto our dreams and hopes in the midst of it all to push for ourselves in the midst of all we go through and face. 2022-07-161h 47Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsHood Made: Systematic Oppression, Impacts on Mental Health and a Hopeful Resilience
Hood Made: Systematic Oppression, Impacts on Mental Health and a hopeful Resilience with Johnnie Hines. Together, we talked about the struggles happening in our hoods that don’t exist in other communities of privilege. We advocate on the impacts it can and has held on many of our mental health and our ability/ lack thereof to cope and conquer through the unprocessed emotions.
To end, we illuminate the power and importance of holding onto our dreams and hopes in the midst of it all to push for ourselves in the midst of all we go through and face. 2022-07-161h 47Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsHOOD MADE: The barriers/ structural violence, the struggles in higher education, and the importance of advocacy !yOn this episode, we share this space with our guest speaker Shamawn Wright who illuminates the struggle being raised in East Oakland and Antioch. With his personal experience and he empowers folks to understand the hustle and its connection to poverty in our communities. Together we discuss code switching, impacts of professionalism on our authentic identities, and the importance of finding the beauty in our struggle instead of shame. Tune in and be inspired with real life stories from our own folks from the hood! 2022-07-091h 03Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsHood Made: How Experience Builds EmpathyWith this new series, you find that this episode helps us to reflect on some of the experiences we had being raised in the hood. I share my experience with community violence, gun violence, police brutality, and the beauty/ creativity that comes from these communities. Sharing my own personal experiences with oppression faced here, might open up the conversations needed for us to begin to have as a community. The validation can help us to recognize that this internalized oppression, might be more of a systematic one. Listen to hear more. 2022-07-011h 00Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsBreaking Generational Impacts Through Gentle ParentingOn episode four, we are hosting a valuable conversation about the generational parenting styles and the forms of harsh discipline experienced in our homes. We dig deeper to describe the long-term impacts on our ability to show up for ourselves as adults from these experiences. Our guest speaker Fabiola Arreola, who is a mother of two beautiful daughters aged 7 and 1 comes through to share her journey towards an approach very new for many of us; gentle parenting. Listen to hear how crucial it is to show up for ourselves and our children to help instill tools to help all become...2022-06-251h 01Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsBreaking the Silence: Our Story, Our Voice, Our Power!We are joined in this episode by Johnnie Hines who was raised in Antioch, CA. We engage in a deep and reflective conversation about the generational expectations of remaining silent when it comes to our trauma, our emotions, and much more. When we hear, "What happens in this house, stays in the house!" we are reminded of the years of invalidation many of us have endured. We explore the impacts this learned silence has on our mental health, our connection to ourselves, and our connection to others. Listen to learn tips on how to begin breaking the silence to become...2022-06-181h 04Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsSingle Parent Struggles and Sacrifices With Mama CarmenOn episode two (2) our guest speaker is in fact my mother; Mama Carmen. She vulnerably shares the impacts of generational trauma and the hardships faced when breaking those chains of trauma. She shares her struggles as a single mother as well as some of the sacrifices she was forced to make in order to raise her children. She is well known in her community for her parenting styles, her wisdom, and her faith.2022-06-121h 01Healing Ourselves Heals Our HoodsFamily Dynamics and Our Relationship with TraumaThere are many households where family dynamics play a major role in the way we deal and handle witnessed or experienced trauma. Trauma can impact individual family members differently, affecting their relationships with each other and the overall functioning of the family unit. Even if the same trauma is experienced in a household, it can impact all differently. Listen to hear real life testimonies of how family dynamics played a role in our household.
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The Millennial Mija PodcastThank U, NEXT with Deziana Torres2021-08-041h 13