Stay ConnectedAs a teacher and writer of self-healing work, I’ve learned that hearing other people’s stories helps us release, heal, and grow.
The Sugar Jar Podcast episodes will include conversations and stories from people all around the world sharing their healing journey. I’ll also have episodes where I share what I’m learning (or unlearning) around my self-healing journey.
In this episode, I chat with my dear friend Zuri Adele who is an actress on the show Good Trouble. In this episode Zuri and I flip the tables, and she asks me questions about relationships, healing, and how we can each define a new way of being in partnership with others for ourselves.
"When we show up with our partners to do {healing} work, or when we show up with anybody to do {healing} work, we are giving ourselves the opportunities to see the truth of what is already real." - Yasmine
Timestamps:
7.47 - Being healed before finding love
20.55 - The forever partner vs the temporary partner
24.54 - How can I use these experiences as teaching tools?
35.15 - The importance of both partners choosing themselves
40.32 - How do you approach loving yourself whilst in a constantly evolving partnership?
44.47 - How do you make sure you have your own self-care practice when balancing motherhood, partnership and work?
53.26 - How do you navigate healing in an interracial partnership during a period where the race conversation has been prevalent?
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In this episode I chat with Maryam Ajayi of Dive in Well, on being well. We talk about Maryam's current healing journey, and how starting our healing journey can look for each of us individually.
"There's a lot of missing humanity when it comes to what we endure everyday" - Maryam
Timestamps:
2.50 - Maryam discusses setting the stage for work by grounding through meditation
6.32 - Find out about what Maryam calls The Black Square Movement
10.11 - Maryam on working through habits, pattern and trauma of her lineage
13.36 - Yasmine questions how to make sure her intentions in what she writes is what she is being led by
22.33 - Healing is for us too; how can we lean it to that notion when we are presented with a different reality
29.57 - Discover what helped Maryam settle into the healing journey
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In this episode I chat with Les from the Balanced Black Girl podcast. In this episode we talk about the importance of peace, our individual healing journeys and how we can learn to accept where we are even if our lives look different than we imagined.
"I think for me when my healing journey shifted, it was when I realized how much power I truly had." - Les
Timestamps:
1.34 - Find out what inspired Les to create the Balanced Black Girl podcast
4.54 - Has Les found that the podcast has helped changed the conversation in the wellness space?
7.29 - How does Les' journey now compare to when she first started?
12.34 - Your healing journey isn't about having the answers
13.58 - How to unlearn what is no longer you
23.54 - Discover what balance is for Les?
29.58 - How is Les navigating new ways of dating during Covid?
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In today's episode, I chat with Kevin Curry, also known as FitMenCook on Instagram. In this episode, Kevin shares his mental wellness journey and vulnerably encourages all of us by reminding us of the otherside of healing.
"I've realized over time that there's a lot of healing and there's a lot of growth that happens when we share our story." - Kevin
Timestamps:
2.13 - Find out why sharing mental health has always been important to Kevin
4.56 - How "negative" self-talk can be motivating
10.08 - Going through the hard times is just as important as the good
11.18 - Learning to accept the growth and good things happening in your life
16.49 - Kevin reveals how he has been prioritizing himself during covid
20.50 - How has being a black man in the health and wellness space felt during this time?
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In this episode I chat with Dr. Darian Sutton, an emergency physician who's been on the frontlines of the covid-19 pandemic.
We dive into systemic racism and how it affects the BIPOC community, but also how the disproportionate amount of BIPOC physicians are affecting communities of color.
In addition to that, we talk about how medical care affects the LGBTQ+ community and how we having Physicians who represent more diversity will ensure quality care for all people.
Lastly, we talk about the importance of "filling our jars" by ensuring advocacy also makes space for our self-care."
This is a powerful conversation that I was so honored to have.
"I'm fighting against a system that wasn't meant for me and hasn't been built for me, and I'm representing it now. It's a dichotomy that I'm trying to battle with every single day". - Dr. Darien.
Timestamps:
2.52 - Dr. Darien discusses what is was like being a black man in a whitewashed educational program
7.17 - The disconnect between advertising for medicine and the reality
11.15 - Dr. Darien on why there is a lack of black doctors in the medical system
15.09 - The importance of trying to break down the epigenetics of trauma
17.46 - Find out how Dr. Darien is taking care of himself throughout all that is happening in the world right now
20.50 - Navigating the world as a Black, queer man
29.45 - What has Dr. Darien learned about himself in the last year?
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How are you making time for yourself to be aware of what you need? Taking the time you need to process hard emotions in tumultuous times is what season 2 of The Sugar Jar podcast is here for. Listen as Yasmine expands on the conversation around The Sugar Jar and how we can take care throughout all of this.
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"When we really allow ourselves to lean into the discomfort of, this is hard, this is tough, then we give ourselves the space to really let things go" - Yasmine
Timestamps
0.30 - Yasmine expands the conversation around The Sugar Jar
2.00 - Discover how these tumultuous times can wear away at our Sugar
3.35 - How are we taking care throughout all of this?
5.59 - Yasmine expands on the experience of The Sugar Jar
7.49 - Find out how to start your own free Sugar Jar Challenge
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In this episode, I close out Season 1 of The Sugar Jar Podcast, sharing my thoughts on continuing the work, further explaining the Sugar Jar Metaphor, and more.
Yasmine Cheyenne - For me, we can't talk about healing If we're not talking about racism. We can't talk about healing If we're not talking about oppression. We can't talk about healing If we're not talking about accessibility. We can't talk about healing If we're not talking about the tough stuff.
Timestamps
00.28 - The vulnerability of guests on season 1 of The Sugar Jar Podcast
01.45 - Look at our healing work as a lens of awareness
04.24 - If we don't talk about what is happening around us then we lose an opportunity to really see ourselves
05.14 - The Sugar Jar is an opportunity to see how truly sweet all of the parts of us are
08.37 - The true act of service is showing up for yourself
11.46 - How can I shift my awareness that makes space for me to be human?
13.48 - We can create a life that looks exactly how we want it to look and feel
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In this episode, I chat w/ Dr. Dsouza, an Integrative Medicine & Functional Medicine Doctor on the benefits of Integrative Medicine, and we walk through my personal health experience to share how exploring your medical history can benefit your mental health and overall healing.
Dr. Anjali Dsouza - All of medicine can be beautiful and can be helpful
Timestamps:
01.43 - What is functional medicine?
05.50 - Yasmine's story and medicine
07.45 - What were some of the red flags with my story?
13.28 - Are my health problems caused by getting older?
14.03 - Yasmine's treatment plan
18.24 - Why are the things you prescribed me so important?
23.16 - What can people do to find people to help them?
26.08 - Mental health and Physical health can't be separated
Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)
Healthaim.org
ifm.org
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In this episode, I chat w/ Dosse Via on all things astrology. She eloquently explains astrology from an African perspective in the most amazing way.
Dosse Via - That's what I'm passionate about, helping people get to know themselves, realize there's no good or bad. A lot of energy is neutral, malleable, whatever we wish it to be.
Timestamps:
02.40 - Astrology is a tool for healing
09.21 - How can people begin to connect the ways they experience the world to when they were born?
13.10 - Stereotypes and astrology
20.11 - We all have every single sign in our chart
26.24 - How do you begin to go deeper with astrology?
33.45 - Where does retrograde get its bad rap?
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In this episode, I chat with Nedra about childhood trauma, boundaries, and learning to advocate for your healing.
Nedra Tawwab - "Childhood continues to show up in our relationship until we recognize that wow this issue was happening before, I met my partner, before I met this friend, this is a deep wound, this is not a current wound."
Timestamps:
01.57 - What is childhood trauma?
04.17- How does childhood trauma impact us as adults?
10.34 - There are so many things we can do before we cut people off
17.04 - You have to cater your "no" to the person you are talking to
19.29 - When I have the worst boundaries, I have the worst resentment
22.10 - How can we allow our adult selves to act based on what is happening now rather than ourselves from 25 years ago?
26.07 - What do you say to the person who is on that journey?
28.25 - I can't afford therapy, how can I start my work without working with a therapist?
Resources: (books, products, websites, other podcasts)
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
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