As a child, were you encouraged to embrace your uniqueness? Or were you told that it was important to learn to be more like everyone else? So many of us had those special, quirky, beautifully weird parts of ourselves put down or even extinguished by authority figures… do you ever wonder what might have happened had we been allowed to let that part of us blossom?

Today, I’m welcoming back Instagram star and my girlfriend-in-my-head Anita Kopacz for part two of our chat. Anita is an amazing, light-filled author, spiritual psychologist, and mommy who just published her debut novel, Shallow Waters.

Tune in and listen to episode nine of Mamaste with Tanika Ray.  Anita and I discuss how letting your child be who they are, who they were born to be, is one of the greatest gifts we can give them as parents and mothers—and we’re getting to the nitty gritty in this episode. We’re talking about the perils of organized religion, remembering and respecting our ancestors, and, of course, how she approaches the challenges of mommyhood.

Some Questions I ask:

• Do you think we as a people are better off once we get through the delusion of religion? (01:14)
• As one of seven, you saw a lot of your mother mothering, how did you approach mommying yourself? (08:49)
• Is it hard for us to raise our kids? (13:58)
• On your journey of mommying, what are your three non negotiables that you have in your arsenal? (16:32)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• The mutual experience that Anita and I had when discovering Agape and the work of Michael Beckwith (03:27)
• Why mentorship is so important for black women (07:35)
• How watching her mother love and admire herself when Anita was a child informed her world view as a mother (09:19)
• Why we should encourage our kids to be proud of their “weirdness” (14:04)

Connect with Anita:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Shallow Waters: A Novel by Anita Kopacz

Let’s Connect!

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Twitter

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