A TRIGGER WARNING:
In this episode, the two friends share experiences of mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse as well as suicide.

An experience told by two best friends gaslit by a third party and small community.    
How they came together, broke apart, and reconnected.   

To learn more about how Heather and other women within the Chicago community helped close this theater company.  See the link below:
https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/profiles-theatre-closes-less-than-a-week-after-reader-abuse-expose/

“I just wanted to be seen.”

This episode was recorded on the day of the full moon in December 2021, during the darkest part of the year.  We set an intention that during our conversation we would shine a light on the deepest parts of ourselves that need to be illuminated –  it happened.  

A close friendship of several decades (in this life time) with challenges around socio-economic differences that ended over social media.  She shares her love for this dear friend, an experience of time travel, the long story of lives, the priority to face the humanity of others, Kintsugi, and more.  

Kintsugi:  The Japanese art of golden joinery, in which broken objects - usually pottery - are mended with golden-dusted lacquer.  

Cheryl and Shea (artist, tarot practitioner, fascinator + contemplative) discuss “portals” as a partner episode to: 
Episode 8 - An Open Wound Leads to Time Travel

A conversation about what is a portal, how this podcast has opened portals for both of us, and the benefits of playing with them.  

New York Times article about “time slips”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/magazine/time-slips-time-travel.html

@2.18:  Cheryl, “Since doing this (podcast).” 

Watch our conversation on YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/A_Cz_41qxFI

Shea in the Catskills: 
https://www.sheainthecatskills.com

PART II of Episode:  Breakup Brought on by a Car Accident (PART I)

How a breakup with a close-friend/co-worker broke up other friendships within their community.   An exploration of group dynamics, traumatic silence, and various reparenting techniques and beyond.


LINKS TO:  Breakup Brought on by a Car Accident (PART I)

SPOTIFY:   
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UVhlMbDAJXPt1WbWH4o0Y?si=51450998483d4d39

APPLE PODCASTS: 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breakup-brought-on-by-a-car-accident-part-i/id1600999757?i=1000547846734

STITCHER:
https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/89692897&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/89692897

Cheryl and Tania discuss how the HBO series, AND JUST LIKE THAT... explores the loss of close friend Samantha in Episode 10, the finale.  

Watch Bonus Episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/dBGBQoam1eo

"The dead aren't dead."   Episode 8 (to be released February 18, 2022)  will dig further into what this means. 

Tania Richard creator/host of the podcast:
TANIA'S TAKE, Race Culture and the Culture of Race 

Listen on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tanias-take-race-culture-and-the-culture-of-race/id1450118710  

Tania's TikTok:
TRICHARD51

 
If you have a story you'd like to share anonymously on this podcast about a friendship breakup & how you moved through it, reach out to me at:  [email protected]

A magical friendship between two young mom's who felt so similar and then realized their differences.   How can we as friends be interdependent and yet still connected?  

“The highest form of intimacy is love that doesn't annihilate difference. “
by Evelyn Fox Keller

“Agape Love” 
Agápē, is the Ancient Greek word for unconditional love.  
In the Bible, it defines the love of God for humans & humans to God.  
Martin Luther King Jr. 

"No one has to be right or wrong, it's just you are exploring different questions." 


Cultivating Personhood


Three ways  of transforming one's life: 

1.     A Practice

2.     A Mentor

3.     A Community

Springhouse:  https://springhouse.org
A School for Regenerative Culture Builders

"...I heard a voice in my head say, she is going to be my girlfriend." 


Chanting:  Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

How to Chant:
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+chant+nam+myoho+renge+kyo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_oTLzYZqjKeTa0PEP7_WbmAQ18

Buddhist Organization: 
https://www.sgi-usa.org
  

Cheryl and Tania discuss how the HBO series, AND JUST LIKE THAT... explores the loss of close friend Samantha in Episode 9.

Watch Bonus Episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2HwX_xmh4wU


@4.18:  THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW,  book by S. E. Hinton

@6.48:  "This podcast is a portal."   See more about this on future bonus episodes & on YouTube Channel.

 @7.40:  INSECURE, HBO series by Issa Rae

@7.47:  FRANCIS HA, film written by Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig. 

Tania Richard creator/host of the podcast: 

TANIA'S TAKE, Race Culture and the Culture of Race 

Listen on Apple Podcasts: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tanias-take-race-culture-and-the-culture-of-race/id1450118710 

Tania's TikTok: 
TRICHARD51

If you have a story you'd like to share anonymously on this podcast about a friendship breakup & how you moved through it, reach out to me at:  [email protected]

My middle school BFF, our secret mission, and not so secret ending. 

Tania Richard, Creator/Host of podcast:
Tania's Take, Race Culture and the Culture of Race

Tania's TikTok:
TRICHARD51

If you have a story you'd like to share anonymously on this podcast about a friendship breakup & how you moved through it, reach out to me at:  [email protected]

This bonus episode is a brief overview of my friendship with Tania, who interviews me about a broken friendship of my own in Episode 4:  Cheryl's BFF Breakup Story
We chat about how our friendship began, why we love each other, a big mistake I once made in our friendship and how we moved through it.   

Friends I'm No Longer Friends With
YouTube Channel
Video of Tania and I discuss friendship dynamics and the loss of close friend Samantha in the HBO series, And Just Like That...  
https://youtu.be/8W1FDbDro8k

Tania Richard, Creator/Host of podcast
Tania's Take, Race Culture and the Culture of Race

Tania's TikTok
TRICHARD51

If you have a story you'd like to share anonymously on this podcast about a friendship breakup & how you moved through it, reach out to me at:  [email protected]