In this episode of Practice Dirty, Nikki Silvestri of Soil & Shadow and I discuss:
- What it’s like to be a black woman who’s fully committed to embodying a life defined on our own terms.
- What it was like growing up in dangerous, violent communities in the 80s in Los Angeles.
- The impact of childhood trauma and its role in shadow work.
- What shadow work is and how women must work through their shadows in order to resolve trauma and grief.
- Being burnt out, letting the pieces crumble, and finding the agency to rebuild.
- Doing less work, and keeping family circles small, in order to become observant and learning to heal.
- How women are the ultimate leaders and how childbirth, in vitro, and carrying another life sets us up for our successes.
- How the societal and racial constructions developed during the first American colonization were built to segregate and oppress us. How basic bitch business models, built on simplicity, may not always be beneficial.
- The village/community models that would help heal broken family structures.
- How black and women of color can find agency to be seen and be heard.
- How the collective fear of women of color is not being seen and being alone.
- In order to experience ecstasy, we must first work through grief.
It’s heavy, and it’s deep. But it’s empowering and proves just how powerful we can be.
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