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346. How to Break Family Cycles: Dr. Mariel Buqué
Psychologist, Dr. Mariel Buqué, joins us to discuss intergenerational trauma – and how understanding the generations that came before us can lead to profound healing.
Discover:
-The symptoms that signal that you might have inherited trauma;
-The most powerful sentence to say to your child to provide them healing;
-How to reframe family loyalty – and why it’s never too late to do this work.
About Dr. Buqué:
Dr. Mariel Buqué is a first-generation, Black Dominican psychologist, a world-renowned trauma expert, and the author of the bestselling book Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Her mission is to help reduce the recurrence of Intergenerational ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences).
345. Glennon: Learning to Love without Control
Glennon shares more about going off of antidepressants including a rock bottom moment, what this time of discovery has revealed about where she still needs to heal and the latest tool she has found that’s helping her through.
Please note this episode does not contain medical advice and only serves to share Glennon’s personal experience.
To hear part one of this conversation, Ep 344 Glennon: Her New Life Off Meds, click here!
Sonya Renee Taylor – author of The Body is Not an Apology – explores the personal and global promise of Radical Self Love:
Discover:
1. Examining the way we talk to our bodies – and how to change negative self-dialogue.
2. How to shift from a relationship with our body based on dominance and control to a relationship based on trust.
3. The pitfalls of “body positivity.”
4. The full life that is possible only if we stop believing our body is our enemy, and start seeing our body as a teammate.
About Sonya:
Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, transformational thought leader, author of six books including The New York Times best selling The Body is Not an Apology, and founder of the international movement and digital media and education company of the same name whose work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to speak, teach,write, create, and transform lives globally.
344. Glennon: Her New Life Off Meds
Glennon shares her experience of going off medication after decades on…the highly personal reason she did it, what it’s been like so far, and what’s next.
Please note this episode does not contain medical advice and only serves to share Glennon’s personal experience.
343. Are You A Cool or Warm Person + What Does That Mean?
Glennon, Abby and Amanda *attempt* to do a ‘fun’ rapid fire but find themselves in deep discussion about setting boundaries, self regulation, and how to find your unique marrow of life.
Discover:
-How to know if you are a warm person, cool person or a combo of both.
-Which type of person Glennon, Abby, and Amanda each see themselves as; and
-What you might need to do if you identify as a people pleaser.
In this episode, Dr. Becky Kennedy shares how we can connect better with our kids.
Discover:
1. How to embody your authority while also validating your kid’s experience.
2. The #1 strategy for building resilience.
3. Why consequences and punishments backfire and don’t work.
4. How to sit with your child on the “benches” of their emotions.
5. One thing you can say to your kids to build connection in any circumstance.
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and mom of three, named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. She’s rethinking the way we raise our children – empowering parents to feel sturdier and more equipped to manage the challenges of parenting. Dr. Becky is founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place; author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, which is out this month. And her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.
342. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!
Today is a big day! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joins Glennon and Amanda to share her deeply personal journey to becoming the first Black woman Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Discover:
Justice Jackson’s beautiful new memoir,Lovely One, is out today!
On the Guest: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received her undergraduate and law degrees, both with honors, from Harvard University, then served as a law clerk for three federal judges, practiced law in the private sector, worked as Commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and served as an assistant federal public defender. President Obama nominated Justice Jackson to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, Justice Jackson made history in 2022 when President Biden nominated her as an Associate Justice. One of only 115 people in history to have the job – and the Black woman ever to have the job – she was confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and took her seat on June 30, 2022.
341. Abby: How to Move On after Grief
In part two of Abby’s sharing about the loss of her eldest brother, Peter – she opens up more about the revelations that her journey with grief has taught her about life.
To hear the first part of our conversation on grief, check out Episode 340. How Abby Survived Her Biggest Loss
Discover:
-Why Abby now looks at grief like a friend;
-The beautiful story of how Peter saved Abby’s life and how that hits her now; and
-What was truly underneath Abby’s outsized fear of death this whole time.
Today, we're revisiting one of our favorites. Enneagram Godmother Suzanne Stabile guides us through: What the hell is the Enneagram and why does it matter?
-The gifts and struggles each Enneagram type faces;
-Why the worst part of you is also the BEST part of you;
-The core desire / fear that explains your behavior; and
-Why, if Suzanne ever needs brain surgery, she’s finding a doctor who’s an Enneagram 1
And we FINALLY answer the question: Is Amanda a 3 or a 1?
To continue with follow up episode to this one, check out:
About Suzanne:
Suzanne Stabile is an internationally-recognized Enneagram teacher. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness.
With backgrounds in sociology and theology, Suzanne has served as a high school professor; the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX; and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas.
Suzanne lives in Dallas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine.
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IG: @suzannestabile
340. How Abby Survived Her Biggest Loss
Abby shares an intimate account of the loss of her eldest brother, Peter, at the end of 2023. She describes the emotional turmoil she’s experienced and how she’s coping with her family's grief, the planning of the service, and the overwhelming mix of emotions she continues to feel surrounding grief and death.
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