Alchemical VOICES

In today’s episode, we are joined by A for a conversation about the intersection of being a queer adoptee of colour in a majority-white environment.

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In this episode, we discuss:

🎙️A’s experience of being queer.

🎙️The challenges and best parts of being queer.

🎙️A’s adoptee & transgender experience.

🎙️Challenges within the family & system.

🎙️Creating safety.

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In today’s episode, your host goes solo.

April is Child Abuse & Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

Since Jazzlyn is a survivor of both, she felt called to honour her younger self and all other survivors.

Jazzlyn is all about speaking the truth, empowerment and community healing. She is fiercely passionate about her healing and helping other survivors rise from the ashes.

Through her storytelling, she aspires to be a catalyst and awaken the fire within others.

In this episode, she calls bullshit on the culture for perpetuating the violence on survivors through toxic shame, blame and gaslighting.

This episode is raw, unfiltered and may be triggering and even provocative.

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In this episode, you will find:

🎙️A letter to the toxic culture that shames and blames survivors.

🎙️Parts of Jazzlyn’s personal story.

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Today’s episode is part two of my conversation with Roberto/Nelson.

He is one of El Salvador’s disappeared children and is working on a documentary and autobiographical novel about reuniting with his family.

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In this episode, we touch on the following:

🎙Meeting Roberto/Nelson’s family in Central America

🎙️Identity confusion

🎙️Exploring his culture

🎙The relationship with his biological family

🎙️The change that occurred in both families

🎙️The mental health aspect

🎙️Storytelling as therapy and craft

🎙️ Nelson’s insights on and hopes for his work

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Links to follow and support Roberto/Nelson’s work

Website: https://nelsonroberto.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/dewittn19?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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In today’s episode, Roberto/Nelson joins your host. He is one of El Salvador’s disappeared children and is working on a documentary and autobiographical novel about reuniting with his family.

Tune in to listen to the story of a fantastic human being with an incredibly inspiring story and mission.

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In this episode, we touch on the following:

🎙️The story of Roberto/Nelson’s birth parents

🎙️The traumatic beginning of his life

🎙️His upbringing in the USA

🎙️The life-changing conversation

🎙️The big decision to be made at just 16 years old

🎙️The healing power of storytelling

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Links to follow and support Roberto/Nelson’s work

Website: https://nelsonroberto.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/dewittn19?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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In today’s episode, I go solo.

I look at our sense of belonging and explore what it means to us. In addition, I share my personal experiences, life lessons and how I have worked with my beliefs about belonging.

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In this episode, I touch on the following:

🎙️What the Instagram community said about belonging

🎙️My experiences of not belonging

🎙️The Maya Angelou quote that continues to inspire people

🎙️My life lessons on belonging

🎙️Questions to the audience

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In today’s episode, we are joined by Shelley Rottenberg, a transracial and international adoptee.

We talk about Shelley’s adoptee journey and the challenges within the adoptee experience.

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In today’s episode, we touch on the following:

🎙️ Shelley’s background and adoption

🎙️The identity confusion she experienced as a child, teen and adult

🎙️The journey of trying to fit in

🎙️The power of community

🎙️Creativity as a therapeutic pathway to healing

🎙️ Shelley’s role in the adoptee community

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Links

To follow Shelley’s journey and her work:

Instagram: @shelleyrottenberg

Webpage: Adoptee I Shelley Rottenberg

LinkedIn: Shelley Rottenberg

Facebook: Shelley Rottenberg

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In today’s episode, my friend Amanda Hahonou joins us.

We talk about her life, how she copes with anger and the challenges she faces as a mixed woman experiencing two different worlds: one where she is not Black enough and another where she is considered White and gets to experience the privileges of that.

In this episode, we touch on the following:

🎙️How Amanda and Jazzlyn met.

🎙️ Amanda’s upbringing and how she, as a mixed child, experienced two different worlds.

🎙️The impacts on her mental health.

🎙️The relationship with her White mother.

🎙️How she deals with anger related to racism.

🎙️Why the Meghan & Harry documentary fires her up.

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Links

ROOTED, where Amanda and Jazzlyn met, is a group in Denmark that offers therapy for minorities:

Instagram: @rooted_dk

Webpage: https://nyerodder.dk/rooted/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089116034595

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Embark on a journey of incredible and life-changing storytelling as you discover the inspiring Alchemical VOICES podcast. Hosted by Jazzlyn Greenzee, this platform celebrates the voices of BIPOC, transracial adoptees and complex trauma survivors. By listening to in-depth storytelling from courageous individuals and uplifting texts and life lessons shared by Jazzlyn, you’ll find inspiration, healing and encouragement. Together, let’s celebrate the power of human resilience and find inspiration to overcome life’s challenges.

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