546: Immigrant Therapist Integrating Identities

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

Jessica Lanyadoo

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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"Aloe" is struggling to figure out how to navigate the vulnerability they feel personally while working with others as a therapist. This reading explores how to balance caring for oneself while also helping others heal. 📍 Find loads of extras + a monthly bonus episode of Ghost only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaLanyadoo 🔮 Learn with Jessica, get her astrology book, and find your free weekly horoscope at https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ 🧘‍♂️ Get Jessica's new audiobook, Meditations for Your Sign, here: https://tiny.cc/0sywzz 👀 Track transits like a pro! Astrology for Days is available at astrologyfordays.com 🇵🇸 Dahnoun Mutual Aid here: https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid ☎️ Reach out your members of Congress and make your voice heard with https://5calls.org/ 🇵🇸♥️ Help to get a family get food and flour in Gaza: https://gofund.me/9e6a8643 🇵🇸♥️ Help provide emergency assistance to displaced Palestinians in Cairo with the Sanad Initiative: https://gofund.me/5b5c8cf1 🦿Learn about the several ways to get involved with Prosthetics for Palestine at https://www.prostheticsforpalestine.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium,
0:06.7	an animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit,
0:11.2	mystical advice for living your very best life. Allo, welcome to the podcast. What would you like
0:20.2	are reading back?
0:23.4	I have my question here.
0:28.2	It reads, I am a queer and trans therapist from a distinct immigrant community.
0:34.5	And my queerness feel separate and distinct from my ethnic identity as a means of self-protection.
0:38.9	I've recently begun creating a group therapy space for queer people from my immigrant community and my nervous system is a wreck. I know this work will require integration
0:44.7	that my Capricorn Stelium struggles against. How do I navigate the vulnerability I feel and balance
0:50.7	caring for myself and the group members.
0:56.8	And you're down to share your birth info?
0:57.9	Yes.
1:03.7	It is December 25th, 1992 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at 10.10 p.m.
1:04.5	Okay.
1:06.7	I got some follow-up questions here.
1:07.7	Yes, please.
1:09.4	Are you out to your family?
1:34.2	I'm out to my immediate family, like my mom and my brothers, but I am not really out in the wider community, like my extended family members. But honestly, my whole life outside of that revolves around being queer, like my art, my work, my friends, my community is very centered on queerness and transness.
1:37.4	And is it a public life?
1:40.2	Like, is it like a digital life that is queer?
1:42.4	Or are you a little more careful online?
1:45.9	I'm a little bit more careful online.
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