TW: childhood trauma + eating disorders 

Welcome to Inner Child December! For the month of December, we will have new episodes every Friday with a new guest each week! We will tackle everything from relationships to forgiveness, to dance and play! I hope these episodes mean as much to me as they do to you. They’ve been such a joy to record, and it’s been so informative and healing to my inner child. 

This week we have the amazing Chelsea Horton (she/her) of @healing.embodied back on the podcast to chat all things dance & play!! Chelsea and I talk about how childhood trauma restricts play, how important play is to safety, and how to begin the journey towards movement and dance, even in the midst of shame. 

If you want to learn more from Chelsea or even work directly with her, you can find her on IG at @healing.embodied or on her website at healingembodied.com . All of her services are virtual, so even if you’re not in her area, you are more than welcome to reach out! If you want to find a dance therapist in your location, go to adta.org ! 

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Content Warning: we chat about trauma + triggers in the context of relationships + conflict 

Welcome to Inner Child December! For the month of December, we will have new episodes every Friday with a new guest each week! We will tackle everything from relationships to forgiveness, to dance and play! I hope these episodes mean as much to me as they do to you. They’ve been such a joy to record, and it’s been so informative and healing to my inner child. 

This week we have the phenomenal Jordan Dann (she/her) to talk about relationships and how our inner child impacts our relationships. Jordan is a somatic couples therapist and gives some incredibly valuable and wise insight into relationships and conflict awareness. We chat about learning how to tap into vulnerability in conflicts, conflict zones, and how our inner child needs impact how we act in relationship with others. 

If you want to learn more from Jordan, you can visit her IG @jordandann , on Tik Tok @jordandann.therapist, and her website at jordandann.com. You can also purchase Jordan’s new book, “Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma,” out now. Jordan also has an amazing flooding protocol in her links that is free and incredibly helpful!  

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This week we have Ariel (she/her) of @sustainablebrowngirl on the podcast to talk sustainability and specifically how approaching sustainability with grace and nuance, whilst holding space for intersectionality is vital to the longevity of sustainable practices! We also go into some tips for a sustainable Halloween!!

The Sustainable Brown Girl page and podcast highlights and inspires women of color within the sustainability movement. If you want to learn more from Ariel, check out her IG, @sustainablebrowngirl, sustainablebrowngirl.com , and her podcast, Sustainable Brown Girl Podcast, available on all streaming platforms and on YouTube! You can also follow Ariel’s personal journey @naturally_mermaid on IG & YouTube!

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TW: SA, purity culture, sexual harassment, religious trauma, homophobia, anxiety 

This week we have Erin (she/her) of @metooyounglife on the podcast to talk about the abuse that has run rampant within the YoungLife ministry. We also talk about reporting and abuse in general, how society ignores survivors, and how the church’s systemic sexism and purity culture prevents accountability. 

If you want to support the survivors of YoungLife and the Me Too Younglife movement, follow them at @metooyounglife. And you can also follow Erin on IG & Tik Tok at @watttsie ! Additionally, regarding the lawsuit, if you are someone who has personally experienced gender-based harassment in YoungLife, please contact Erin as well so you can get connected with the lawyers involved in the lawsuit! 

I also mention some resources for sexual assault and abuse which you can find on mindfulmindspod.com under “Resources.”

✨ SPONSORS ✨ - Huge thanks to our sponsor this week, Intention Wave. You can purchase your unique sound wave jewelry piece at intentionwave.com ! 

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TW: death in general, anxiety in general, death anxiety, death of pets, pet OCD, cancer, social anxiety

This week on Mindful Minds, we have Bailey (she/her) of @anxiety.positive to chat about social + death anxiety! We felt that these two subsets of anxiety aren’t often talked about enough despite the fact that so many suffer from them! Especially with the isolation of COVID and the constant exposure to death that society has experienced in the pandemic, we felt that these topics were incredibly timely and important. 

In this episode, we chat about both types of anxieties, what they are, how they appear in our lives or the lives of those we love, and what coping tools we have found that help us cope, heal, and return to neutral!

If you want to follow Bailey and her journey, you can check her out on IG @anxiety.positive, and on her other social media channels (Facebook & Tik Tok). 

✨ SPONSORS ✨ - Huge thanks to our sponsor this week, Intention Wave. You can purchase your unique sound wave jewelry piece at intentionwave.com ! 

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CW: we do chat briefly about micro aggressions, but this episode does not cover graphic depictions of racism. It approaches racism from a more educational lens 

This week on Mindful Minds, for our 50th episode, *woo woo!!,* we have Christina Rodriguez (she/her/ella) of @latinaswithmasters . Christina is the founder of the online community and podcast, Latinas with Masters, whose mission is to Inspire, Empower and Educate nuestra comunidad and future generation leaders with equitable pathways, academic advancement and professional growth in a safe, positive and supportive environment. In this episode, we chat about equity and privilege from testing discrimination, Latina/o/x representation, the importance of seeing Latinas in academia, and why Christina knew this space was needed. 

Christina V. Rodriguez is a first-generation Nicaraguan-American Latina with a multi-cultural and equity-minded mindset with a commitment in creating equitable opportunities for Women of Color in Business, Housing and Academia. Christina received her Bachelor's degree in Latino/a Studies from San Francisco State University and went on to receive her Master's degree (MBA) with an emphasis in Marketing at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is a currently pursuing her doctorate in Educational Leadership and provides 15+ years of marketing experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

If you want to learn more about Latinas with Masters and Christina, you can follow @latinaswithmasters on IG/FB/Twitter/Tik Tok and https://www.latinaswithmasters.com online! The Latinas with Masters website also features graduate services, swag, resources, and more! You can also listen to the Latinas with Masters podcast on all podcast streaming platforms. You can also visit her website to donate & support Christina’s work and future & current grad students! 

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TW:  deconstruction, religious shame/trauma, sexual assault, sexual misconduct done by pastors, homophobia/racism/ableism/misogyny inflicted by the church, eating disorders + fasting + fatphobia, brief talk about cults 

This week we have my older sister, Manni (she/her), on the podcast to chat about our deconstruction and shared upbringing. We talk about everything from how Christianity can become toxic and discriminatory to what deconstruction actually means to how we’ve moved past bitterness. We also cover quite a few questions sent in from Tik Tok listeners about religion + deconstruction!

This episode serves as a little bit of a follow up to my deconstruction journey in episode 5. I wanted to go more in depth about my personal journey and how I have grown and even changed some perspectives in the past year. Healing and growth involve a lot of change, and I want to be transparent about that.

If you want to follow Manni or reach out to her, you can follow her on IG @mannibobanni. Manni is also selling some vintage items at a thrift event in the greater Seattle in November area and you can DM her for more info. The resources Manni mentions in the episode are:  “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It” and “How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News” by Peter Enns. She also talks about how work by Richard Rohr has been helpful to her during her deconstruction & reconstruction journeys. Manni also mentions, “It Didn’t Start With You” by Mark Wolynn as a trauma resource. 

If you are looking for additional deconstruction episodes, we have a list of deconstruction episodes at our IG (@serafinablog). “Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment” by August McLaughlin and any of August’s other work. August was also on episode 21 of the podcast! “The Body Keeps The Score” is also an amazing resources for trauma work, and I have episodes (28-30) that breakdown the book. “The Purity Myth” by Jessica Valenti is also an amazing resource for purity culture survivors! Lastly, We Can Do Hard Things, the podcast, but specifically the episode “Chanel Promises: We Are Never Stuck” is an phenomenal resource for trauma recovery as well as Chanel’s memoir, “Know My Name.” 

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TW: Domestic violence & abuse (time stamp: 40:30- 44:00), ableism & fatphobia (briefly talked about), harmful racial/body type fetishization, decolonization/racism/violence against Black bodies/queerphobia against BIPOC/slavery/sexual assault & rape against Black people/stealing Indigenous & Black spiritual practices(after 44:20), suicide & gun violence (time stamp: 1:02:30) 

This week we have an incredibly educational conversation with Marjani (she/they) of @marjanilane surrounding polyamory and it’s misconceptions, but then we dive deeper into how the patriarchy impacts our view of forever & commitment. We also spend the back half of the episode discussing the intersectionality and nuances of how to decolonize polyamory and how incredibly deeply engrained colonization is in everything around us.  

Marjani is an amazing educator and has a wonderful platform that is so intersectional and also accommodating for different types of learning styles. You can find their Instagram @marjanilane and their sensory sensitive page @marjanilane_v2 . I would also highly encourage you to support Marjani’s work financially if you can! You can support them via Venmo @cocoay or through her Amazon affiliate page at amazon.com/shop/marjanilane . You can also follow them on Tik Tok @marjanilane and on Clubhouse under “Marjanilane.” 

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TW: Sexual assault & campus assault, religious shame, purity culture, vaginismus, sexual violence, shame

If you’re here from Tik Tok, welcome! Thank you so much for all of the love! Our episodes normally release Fridays at 6AM PST on ALL streaming platforms. If you’re looking for more religion/deconstruction episodes, episodes 5, 9, 10, 11, 21, 24, 36 & 44 all center on religion & religious trauma/deconstruction! Feel free to follow our podcast Tik Tok too @mindfulmindspodcast !!

This bonus collab episode is a special one! I had the honor of going onto the Dear Poly podcast (@dearpolypodcast) hosted by my dear friend, Phillip (they/them). I had the honor of having Phillip on my podcast a few weeks back for episode 43 to talk about polyamory. We ended up shifting and talking a TON about religion and deconstruction! So, we decided to partner up again and create this episode, which centers on religious shame for Dear Poly’s shame series! 

I share my personal experience with shame and how it greatly impacted my healing process and trauma journey. We talk about everything from physical symptoms of trauma, vaginismus, inner child work, and purity culture long-term damage! 

This episode is a bonus episode in addition to my normal schedule and is also available on Dear Poly’s streaming platforms! You can listen to Dear Poly on all streaming platforms with new episodes dropping Sunday at midnight! If you want to learn more from Phillip or have questions about polyamory, please check out their podcast or reach out anonymously via https://www.dearpolypodcast.com or via DMs! The Dear Poly podcast is intended to answer your questions and explore the curiosity surrounding ethical non-monogamy! 

Lastly, Phillip and I also chat about two books that we’ve found helpful in our healing journeys. The first is “The Body Keeps Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk - which I did a 3 part series on in my podcast last November. The second is, “Know My Name,” by Channel Miller, which centers on sexual assault and specifically campus assault. 

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TW: human trafficking, familial trafficking, toxic masculinity, harm done by men, sexual assault/abuse, trauma, coercion

*DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded in July, and since then, The Lantern Project has announced that they are closing their doors and George has transitioned out of his role in the organization. The organization is passing it’s programs onto other organizations and this information and content is still so important to talk about! But regarding resources, I have added some resources provided by the Lantern Project to continue learning and to continue the movement to stop human trafficking!*

This week we have George Treml (he/him), a former staff member at The Lantern Project in Seattle on to talk about human trafficking and how socialization plays into it. George is the former Men’s Education Program Coordinator at The Lantern Project, which centers on education and prevention to help end sexual exploitation and trafficking. 

 George and I talk about how the root problems of privilege, masculinity, lopsided power dynamics, and even a lack of consent/sexual education play into human trafficking and its continued harm. This conversation is a lot different from previous podcast episodes, considering it centers on the male perspective and addresses how toxic masculinity and the patriarchy has harmed men as well. This podcast has centered 90% of its episodes on women & non-binary individuals, but I think this perspective sheds light on a very real problem that needs to be talked about! 

If you want to find more educational resources regarding human trafficking, you can check out, “Making of a girl” on YouTube. You can also find more human trafficking resources at: Washington Trafficking Prevention, World Without Exploitation Youth Coalition, Af3irm Seattle, and Youth Against Sexual Violence. You can find the blog posts I wrote for the Lantern Project at my LP Archive on my website.

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