433: Activism, Rest, and Restore

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

Jessica Lanyadoo

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

"Alice" and her husband have shaped their lives and family around community activism. They've given so much and experienced so much reward as a result. But, Alice is ready for a change and needs some restorative time to recharge and recalibrate. She wants to focus on herself and her family. She joins Jessica to explore what that looks like and what next steps she can take to start reshaping her life around her own needs. 📍 Support the podcast and get loads of extras - including a bonus episode of the podcast monthly, only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaLanyadoo. 🔮 Learn with Jessica, get her book and your free weekly horoscope at https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ 👀 Track transits like a pro! Astrology for Days is available at astrologyfordays.com 🇵🇸 Give what you can to this GoFundMe to provide hot meals to Palestinian children in north Gaza: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily Donate to anera.org + if you are in the United States, visit uscpr.org & JVP.org for education and prompts for taking action to support Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸MECA is on the ground to provide Gaza with medical aid, clean water, food, psychological support, and more. Give what you can at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mecaforpeace.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SAD and Pol's mutual aid fund for Mx. Yaffa and MASGD https://givebutter.com/iPxsAf 🇸🇩 Visit: https://eyesonsudan.net/donate 🌹 There are so many ways to give this Mothers Day & beyond with the Black Fairy Godmother! Find them here: https://lnk.bio/theblackfairygodmotherofficial

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast, I'm your host Jessica Lagnado. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium,
0:06.6	and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit
0:11.0	mystical advice for living your very best life.
0:16.0	Alice, welcome to the podcast.
0:18.0	What would you like reading about?
0:20.0	Yeah, thank you for having me.
0:22.0	So I reached out because over the last several years, my husband and I have done a lot of putting our own life visions and goals on the back burner.
0:36.2	We live in a city where after George Floyd was killed,
0:40.0	our community had an uprising and my husband turned his business into a support space for organizers and for activists.
0:50.9	And then he launched a nonprofit and then his own business expanded on top of that and my company which supports marginalized voices. I'm all about serving. That's my job. That's my purpose, my life calling.
1:10.4	And so my job very much became even more centering of people who needed support.
1:17.0	In the middle of that we had a baby.
1:20.0	Congratulations, but oh my God. We had our second baby. Everything all at once. Everything all at once. And so now, it's, you know, COVID is still here, but our community has, we have healed or in the process of healing.
1:36.6	And you know we're now in our mid 40s and I just feel a little tired and exhausted from all of the ground that we lost for our own family in the
1:49.2	middle of all of that.
1:50.6	Being a family of color, having a black boy in the middle of all of what happened
1:56.4	with George Floyd and Dante Wright and so forth and so on across the country.
2:01.1	And so I'm sort of at a point of feeling like I would like to center my own writing more.
2:11.0	I would like to center my own creative dreams. I would love to have my husband, my beloved, also do that. And it's just been so hard Jessica to give ourselves this permission to move into this
2:28.2	next chapter for our family that like our family needs us and we need to figure out a path for saying yes
2:36.6	community we love you and we are here and our family we have two black kids in a very white Midwestern community and we need to serve them and we need to serve ourselves and it is hard for both of us.
2:53.2	Yeah.
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