Healing is the Revolution

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This episode focuses on two people whose healing journeys have been highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the unique processes each one uses to cope. In spite of the traumatic experiences that marked his childhood, Brennan’s resilient spirit kept him on his path to become a devoted father and beloved math teacher. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic has majorly impacted both him and other members of his family in a very lasting way. In this episode, Brennan reflects on how the pandemic has affected him physically, emotionally, and mentally, as a father, a brother, and a teacher. Last year, Amy couldn’t have imagined that her loss and struggles would uniquely equip her with the tools to take on 2020. But surprisingly, it did. Amy is a body healer/bodyworker and a writer, and in this episode, she discusses how she dealt with the anxiety of a chaotic world in COVID lockdown, as well as the isolation from her father who is living in hospice. In an honest and raw way, Amy explores what “coping” looks like these days.

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If pain is indeed inspiration for art, then poet, health advocate, and educator Nikki Napoleon’s first few decades were not short of material. From the layers of trauma in her home - heartbreakingly brushed off as “just learned behavior” by relatives who could have intervened - to losing some of her beloved siblings, Nikki could have drowned in a reservoir of pain. But “Earth Angels” like her maternal grandmother turned her on to reading books and writing poetry, in which she found healing and self-expression. Through that creativity and curiosity, and other therapies that are important to her, Nikki has created a thriving life for herself and her children, despite the scars of her life’s early storms.

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Since the age of four, artist and activist Jasmine Davis was very clear about who she was, yet she felt burdened by the weight of other people’s prejudice, expectations and projections onto her, and she had to constantly navigate this lack of acceptance and understanding everywhere in her world—from church, to school, to even within her own family. Finally successful in her self definition and in harmony with the people in her life and work, now Jasmine honestly and openly recounts her path to get there: the unexpected people from whom she found acceptance and guidance, the vices she clung to for survival, and even the times she knows she simply got in her own way. With a wise lens she reflects on her journey to developing healing, healthy relationships with others and with herself.

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Today Brennan Jacques is a thriving middle-school teacher, and a football and basketball coach, yet in his own words his early life “was not pretty.” The memories that play on repeat in his head aren't all bright and positive like the once in a lifetime community trip he took to Disney World, rather he is still plagued by a horrific situation that unfolded right in front of his eyes at age twelve. That wasn’t Brennan’s first intimate brush with violence - and it would not be his last - and when he became a young father he became determined to create a different life for his daughter and went down a whole new path. But inside and outside the classroom, Brennan has been quick to learn the lessons life has dealt him. He now uses healing and wisdom to guide him as a father and he has excelled beyond even his own belief.

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Despite all, bodyworker, healer and writer Amy Stewart gently reminds herself that “I’m better now than I was back then.” And that is saying a lot, because by the age of nine she had already experienced enough trauma to feel that the world and everything around her was sad. Amy reveals how that young girl - hurt, angry, and feeling unprotected - succumbed to harmful outlets to escape and to cope. Today, after decades of therapy ,she is proud of her growth and has found healthier outlets to speak her truth and fight for her healing. 

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Daddy’s girl Lauren Teverbaugh has fulfilled her father’s mantra, “excellence, nothing less,” and is now a board-certified child psychiatrist, adult psychiatrist, and pediatrician. Despite tumultuous changes in her family unit starting when she was a mere five years old, her dad showed up for her and her sister, and she believed that he always would...until the day he didn’t. In this episode, walk alongside Lauren’s healing journey to uncover the truths and complex realities that stemmed from this devastating time both as a curious child uncovering family secrets and as a compassionate professional who only too well understands the effects of untreated trauma.

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Flozell Daniels’s story is rather unique, yet some may say it's unfortunately not uncommon. These days Flozell thrives as the President and CEO of the Foundation for Louisiana, likely possible through the foundation he received growing up in an African American community in New Orleans that was idyllic and secure despite its issues. In this episode Flozell speaks of strong maternal figures and a father who always showed up and guided him, which helped him feel sure of the role he in turn would play in the future. But life dealt him one of the cruelest of blows. Only a few years past a trauma that still reduces him to his knees in tears, he employs a range of self-care and healing strategies to answer his broken heart’s question “how am I supposed to live?” Flozell shares how his personal and community fight for joy and justice have intertwined and keeps him on his healing journey.

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Gina Brown could have settled with being one of many tragic stories of a human’s inability to claw beyond circumstances outside of her control. Beginning at just four and a half years old, Gina has endured a history of abuse, a devastating health diagnosis, failed familial relationships, self denial, and substance use. Yet instead of succumbing to the trauma, after a lot of work Gina has pushed through and become a national advocate and activist. With humor and conviction, Gina tells her provocative personal story of how she catalyzed her own healing and how she works daily to disrupt the harmful cycles in her family.

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