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Anna Seewald- Authentic Parenting

Julie Cusmariu — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:54:57 +0000

Anna Seewald, M.Ed., is a parenting educator, parent, speaker, author and founder of the successful and widely listened to Authentic Parenting Podcast. If you don’t already know Anna, you will quickly feel like you want to. Anna brings both great meaning and levity to any conversation. I have loved her podcast from first listening to it a few years ago. Anna is a remarkable human being with a transformational life story marked early on by severe loss and tragedy as a child who survived the 1988 Spitak earthquake and tragically lost her mother. Each day Anna makes a positive and meaningful difference in the lives of children, parents and educators.

In this conversation Anna talked about her own experience with trauma and her current experience navigating the pandemic, offering insight and importrant reminders for our mental health. Thank you Anna. We also laughed, Anna sang for us a little bit (with my coaxing) and we talked podcasting as kindred podcast host and producer spirits that we are. It was as always with Anna, deep and meaningful and fun. Thank you Anna @authentic.parenting.podcast.
Let us know what you are taking with you from this conversation for your resilience and mental health.

Be sure to subscribe to Anna’s podcast anywhere you find your podcasts. www.AuthenticParenting.com.
And be sure to listen to our first conversation together on my series #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage.

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Nicole Schiener, Psychotherapist

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:58:21 +0000

Nicole Schiener, Psychotherapist, lives in Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, speaker and advocate for truth and justice. @mindfulmama_nsm
“Mental health is social justice.”

We talk about where we are right now, in this pandemic and ways to navigate life, mental health, social justice and healthy relationships.

Listen and as you do, notice what is present within you and what you may need in this moment, the moment you are in, whenever you listen in.

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Confronting racism and standing in solidarity with Black lives in the time of the pandemic with Doreen Dodgen-Magee, Psy.d on the Julie in Conversation podcast

Julie Cusmariu — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:25:45 +0000

“…if we could all just be more uncomfortable, inconvenienced and bored, we would just be better neighbours and siblings to people, and yet I know that a lot of people are feeling that those three things are very tapped out right now….” words shared by doreen dodgen-magee on the most recent podcast.

Podcasting is one way I show up in matters of my heart; with my voice and by sharing other people’s voices.

My most recent broadcast from the series Voices That Create Change, was supposed to be about navigating the pandemic with author and psychologist doreen dodgen-magee, psy.d. but it took a sharp and necessary turn.

The podcast is dedicated to Black lives, past, present and future and the Black Lives Matter movement. I stand in solidarity with the Black communities demanding justice and the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement. I stand against the injustice and violence and brutality on Black people, that is going on and has been going on for centuries upon centuries, upon which countries have been built. This hour is steeped in my commitment to be anti-racist, to learn and do more more so as not to contribute to perpetuating the violence and injustice and systemic inequities facing Black Lives, Indigenous Lives and on the lives of people of colour.

In this conversation with Doreen we shared resources of Black activists, authors, journalists, practitioners and educators to learn from and more. I have included some mentioned below.

“It is a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life.” (unknown). I do want to acknowledge that this conversation, featuring two white women talking about racism is an example of privilege in itself. I acknowledge this. I wasn’t sure if the right action forward was to proceed with the podcast but it became clear to me that it was the right action forward for me taking responsibility and using what I have to help contribute to dismantling the systems of oppression with the hope of impacting positive change in some way.

Doreen Dodgen-Magee, a returning guest and friend of the podcast, is a beautiful example of heart filled, compassionate leadership, she is a beautiful human doing such meaningful work in the world. She helps us navigate the times we are in. May you benefit in some way.

Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams @zenchangeangel
Charlene Carruthers @charlenecarruthers
Adrienne Maree Brown @adreiennemareebrown
Rachel Cargle @rachel.cargle
Michelle Osbourne- @uncomfortablebliss @projectfemmenoire
Michelle Cassandra Johnson @skillinaction
Anasa Trourman @anasatroutman
Tanya M. Odom

Sandy Hudson @sandela www.SandyandNora.com
Desmond Cole @desmondcole
Indigenous Medicine woman Asha Frost @AshaFrost

Lama Rod Owens www.lamarod.com

www.BlackLivesMatter.com
www.BlackLivesMatter.ca

For more conversations including conversations about discrimination and how to talk to kids about race check out these conversations amongst others I have had on my podcast with Asha Frost, Tanya M. Odom, Ellen Bettmann.

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