#198 - Fight Racism, Part 1: Hope, Healing and Empowerment
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We are living in historic times. In the midst of a global pandemic, our country is also fighting another battle: One that seeks to shine a light on injustice and systemic racism, end abuse and discrimination of Black Americans and other people of color, and begin the hard work of healing.
This reality brings up questions that need to be answered:
- How can a person of color cope with feelings of anger and pain due to being directly impacted by (or bearing witness to) racial injustice in our society?
- What are some strategies that Black Americans can use to stay empowered in their relationships, and to make informed, affirming decisions that honor their needs and rights?
- Where do you turn for safety, support and understanding in a divided and uncertain world?
- How can people of color honor the reality of the past and present, and also remain hopeful about the future?
Growing Self therapists Teresa Thomas, M.S., and Zachary Gaiter, M.S., LPCC tackle these questions and more, on this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast. Join us!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. |
| 0:01.9 | You're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | And if this is your first time listening to the show, I'd like to apologize in advance |
| 0:12.5 | because you probably came here seeking a standard issue, personal growth, self-help type |
| 0:19.0 | podcast where someone purports to give you the three easy steps to personal growth self-help type podcast where someone purports to give you the three easy steps |
| 0:23.4 | to personal growth and self-actualization. And that is actually not what we do here on this show. |
| 0:29.8 | We tackle big, complicated, messy questions around personal growth and self-development in a much less, I think, easy and |
| 0:40.6 | satisfying way sometimes, but hopefully in a more meaningful way. And absolutely all of our |
| 0:47.0 | conversations are geared around love, happiness, and success, but with the acknowledgement |
| 0:52.5 | that actually creating those things in your life |
| 0:55.8 | can be quite a process and a challenging one. |
| 0:58.8 | And so in that spirit, here we are once again today. |
| 1:02.5 | And if you are also one of my regular listeners in the habit of listening to this podcast, |
| 1:09.2 | I also feel like I should acknowledge the fact that for the last |
| 1:12.4 | four or five weeks, we have been running reruns. And there is a reason for that. And you might have |
| 1:20.2 | been thinking, where the heck did Lisa go? And I would like to just share with my regular listeners, |
| 1:26.5 | the news, that I very unexpectedly and |
| 1:32.2 | tragically lost my mother to COVID-19 at the beginning of May. |
| 1:38.0 | And generally speaking, I do a lot of recording and kind of content creation around the beginning of every month |
| 1:46.2 | and had planned to do that in May as well and just couldn't. |
| 1:51.2 | I could not do a thing. |
| 1:52.5 | I've been absolutely like wiped out. |
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