Home Girls Unite

This week we are joined by Sigourney, a recent physics graduate, who speaks to us about growing up in a Zimbabwean household and being a "surrogate husband" to her mother. 

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This week we're joined by Home Girl Kitty. Kitty found herself become the parent to her younger sister when her parents relocated to Australia. She speaks honestly about how it changed her and her family. 

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PARENTIFICATION - the process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to their own parent(s) or sibling(s). In extreme cases, the child is used to fill the void of the alienating parent's emotional life.

This week we're joined by Donya, founder of The Authenticity (https://www.theauthenticity.co.uk/), to discuss all things parentification.

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We're on a mission to hear from more Home Girls! This week we're joined by Emmanuella Kwenorty, podcast developer for BBC Sounds! We discuss growing up in an African household, faith and careers; and how being the eldest daughter impacted all these decisions. You can find Emmanuella on Twitter @emankwen. 

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TRIGGER WARNING: WE ARE DISCUSSING SEXUAL ASSAULT

With more women sharing their sexual assault stories online we thought it was necessary to bring on a therapist and talk about this sensitive topic. 

Topics covered:

- How to seek help if you have been sexually assaulted

- Rebuilding your life/ learning to trust and start dating 

- Substance abuse

- Self harm and suicidal thoughts

- Immigrant families and how they deal with Sexual assault and how they deal with therapy 

- Sexual Assault and the justice system 

- How to help a friend who confides in us

- How to deal with it if your friend has been accused of committing sexual assault

- How to talk to our younger siblings about consent

- How to help your child if they've been abused

THERE IS SUPPORT OUT THERE! 

Resources:

https://www.oneinfour.org.uk/ -  They offer an advocacy service, counselling and can provide this via skype, telephone and in many languages for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. 

Thoughts of wanting to end your life are very common and quite normal for a lot of people in your situation. They tend to be a form of escapism and a lot of people would say that these thoughts are fleeting. Most people don’t tend to open up about ever experiencing these thoughts but if you are ever having these thoughts you can contact services such as the Samaritans on 116 123. Similarly they have recently launched a new app https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/self-help/ which can help you track your mood and provide you with guided self-help. It can also help you with safety planning too.

https://www.thesurvivorstrust.org/ - They offer the same as above but also have rape specialists

http://www.cisters.org.uk/ -  For survivors of childhood incest

http://www.cisters.org.uk/ - For mothers of sexually abused children

https://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk/ - Prevention of childhood sexual abuse

https://www.iesohealth.com/en-gb - Online therapy

Please reach out if you have been effected by this episode. You are not alone and we are here to help. 

We are also raising money to provide therapy to 500 immigrant women. Please donate here. 

This week we're joined by the lovely Angela! Angela, the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter, is a development practitioner who recently moved from the UK to Nigeria. She speaks to us about making the big move and what it's like working in the development sector. Make sure you have a pen and paper ready! 

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This week we are joined by our first male guest! The lovely Marvyn from Dope Black Dads joins us to discuss all things fatherhood. We discuss the difficult relationships many of us have with our fathers and what we can do to rectify them, how he chooses to raise his daughter and the importance of therapy. 

We had some technical issues whilst recording this episode (gotta love the internet) so the final part of the interview is missing. However, we do our best to summarise the last few points! 

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Welcome back! We start this episode by catching up and filling you in on what's been in happening in our lives. We try to keep it light but we inevitably speak about the difficulties of being black women at a time like this. 

Trigger warning: We discuss the death of George Floyd and the protests that have happened as a result. 

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On this week's episode we are joined by Hadiza Obi, a certified early childhood development practitioner based in Nigeria. Hadiza talks to us about her life as an eldest daughter and how having her own daughter made her realise how much she needed to change. You can find out more about Hadiza here. 

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