I had the pleasure of working with Angela Mendez as her supervisor while she completed her clerkship. She’s making her way through PsyD classes. BOSS!!! So, you already KNOW, I had to ask her to join me for a conversation. A rich one (as usual).

In this episode you can expect:

*Speaking Multiple Languages

*Community

*Multi-generational survival and HEALing

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gatHER & HEAL is a community for womxn+ of the diaspora on their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Friends and hommies, in today’s episode we chop it up with Dr. Rosanna Lora about the many, many layers of being first gen. She’s a mom to 2 amazing boys, loves to travel, and is a big foodie!

What you can expect to hear in this convo:

*First gens

*Parentification then actual parenting

*Intergenerational healing & growth

*Incorporating relaxation in your life

Relaxation is not selfish!

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Here are the ways you can connect with our special guest:

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.mosaicpsychservices.com/

IG: @mosaicpsychsvs

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora on their journey of self-discovery. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally relevant content, gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

In today's episode, we have another fantastic guest, Regine Amos. She is a Master of Social Work student and a beautiful soul who has greatly supported the gatHER & HEAL family.  Along with many laughs, here's what you can expect to hear:

* Her deepening journey of Clarity from science, to journalism, to social work.

* We get deep into talking about systems, how they're fuc*ed and what can be done about it (if anything)

* Lastly, we chop it up around the topic of should social workers and the police work together

Hear me when I say…don’t come for us. You got your opinions. So do I. So does she. Etc etc. Listen with an open mind and view it as an opportunity to take in different perspectives. Or, maybe, we share the same perspectives and it’ll feel good to be validated by the homies. If. If you don’t like any of the options…then sh*t, idk what to tell you. Skip this episode then LOL.

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Here are the ways you can connect with our special guest:

IG: @letsunpackdat

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora on their journey of self-discovery. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally relevant content, gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Take a listen to Vanessa Sujey and Lee Hopkins as we chat about making new, adult friendships and boundaries, but not before we hear about a crazy ass escape the room experience. Handcuffs were involved!!!

Lee is a friendship coach (he’ll explain because ya girl was confused!) and he came thru with some GEMS! I was taking notes while we chatted LOL. SO get your pen and paper ready (did I just date myself with that, meh) to take some notes.

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Here are the ways you can connect with our special guest:

Website: https://www.patternsofpossibility.com/

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/gather.heal

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Listen ya’ll, this episode right here?!? Madd fun and enlightening!

This special guest is out here making sure that when you sit with ya therapist….they are also doing their own work. What that means and looks like, well, is different for each individual BUT the dope piece is that it includes breaking down what it means for clinicians to:

(1) work within a colonized system

(2) what we can do about it

(3) and how to embody it even beyond our practices.

Silvana provided a free download for clinicians too!

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Here are the ways you can connect with our special guest:

Website: www.seventhselfconsulting.com

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

What does it look and feel like when you have a provider that truly GETS the importance of culture and your relationship with food?

Listen to this episode to lean into the barriers earting eating disorder treatment, and how providers (& individuals) can get creative around sustainability in maintaining a healthy relationship with food.

Ashley Acle, LMFT is a dope human doing the damn thang by supporting individuals and clinicians in the field of eating disorders & recovery in BIPoC Communities.

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Resources discussed in this episode:

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Here are the ways you can connect with Ashley:

Website: www.ashleyaclemft.com

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyacle/

IG & Medium- @AshleyAcleMFT

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Life changes can be LIFE CHANGING!

And, so scary to make the leap.

Check out this conversation with Amy Santana, LMHC as she chats with Vanessa Sujey about how she’s made a couple of big changes in her career over the course of just a couple of years. Amy shares some of the concrete techniques she used to navigate the fear and hesitations that came up for her, while still taking the leap.

And guess what, once the leap happened….so did greatness.

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Here are the ways you can connect with Amy Santana, LMHC:

Website: amymsantana.com

Email: [email protected]

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

You know what the best part of this podcast is?.... Well, one of the best parts…

All. The. LAUGHTER! While we build community. While we are building our businesses. While we are simply being GREAT! Laugh. Enjoy.

In today’s episode, Vanessa Sujey, Kathryn Smith, and Tamay Shannon have a dope convo full of laughs while weaving in the importance of representation for Black women in business, reminding us to stop trying to save a ho*/all the ho*s, and reminding us to do all the great things while in community. Learn from each other. Lean on each other. Grow forward, togetHER.

Kathryn and Tamay are the founders of Black Lady Business school, a membership-based community for Black women entrepreneurs.

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Here are the ways you can connect with Kathryn & Tamay:

IG: @BlackLadyBiz

Website: BlackLadyBusinessSchool.com

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Fam! Give a listen if you are trying to understand some more ways to live in alignment. More specifically, alignment and wholeness of the body and mind. Now, don’t get us wrong. It ain’t easy, but def feasible.

Salome Saah, LPC of Modern Interventions, comes through to have a conversation that is so deeply a part of my life and ya’ll have heard me talk about it before. What’s different here, though, is that someone else is explaining it. You know…sometimes sh*t just hit different when someone else says it. No worries, no offense taken here LOL.

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Here are the ways you can connect with Salome Saah:

IG: @modernstrategiesllc

Website: www.moderninterventionstrategies.org

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.

Join me, Vanessa Sujey, for another dope a$$ episode filled with laughs, real talk, and gems. Special guest Antonio Morales, founder of The Liberated Self, is a real ass, genuine human and spirit. He likes to kick back with some R&B, his rescue pits, and journals.

Listen to the journey of his career and start of his practice. And it doesn’t stop there. Antonio goes on to share the different ways he encourages others to become their Liberated Self. And it’s dope AF. Ya’ll already know I was AMPED because this my jam!

I know you’re curious about liberating youSELF.

PS I was a guest on one of his lives. So def check out his YouTube channel to catch that episode for our chat. (BC that was lit, too)

Book referenced during this episode:

Born For Love

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IG: @theliberatedseslf

Website: www.theliberatedself.org

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gatHER & HEAL is a membership community for womxn+ of the diaspora in their SELF HEALing journey. Designed to create connection & community, gatHER & HEAL believes "we HEAL in community, we HEAL togetHER."  Utilizing mental health models with culturally related content gatHER & HEAL creates opportunities for womxn+ to come togetHER & HEAL.