691: Denisha Seals: Owning Your Culture & Breaking Patterns of Intergenerational Trauma

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Denisha Seals was raised by her mother, a single parent, who had not had a childhood. She was a teenage mom in an abusive relationship. Unfortunately, the unresolved trauma from her mother’s past was projected onto Denisha from the time she was very young, leaving Denisha with low self-esteem and vulnerability to people who exploited her innocence. A high school teacher helped Denisha realize she had a choice: to continue to hurt and to follow in her mother’s footsteps, or to start her own healing journey. She began counseling and realized that her traumatic childhood was not her fault. Denisha is now engaged in converting the pain of the past into lessons that can be shared with people in a myriad of creative ways for the greater good. She is a writer and a speaker, impacting the world through her storytelling and powerful messages of hope. Listen in to hear Denisha share: Her documentary, HINT: Historical Intergenerational Nutritional Trauma, about the nutritional genocide of people of color How her childhood trauma of incestual sexual assualt inspired her work and her support of her Indigenous culture The significance of her Indigenous culture and African culture in her birth experience and how that informs how she shows up in the world today How growing up as a Afro Indigenous child who had been neglected and violated in foster care and phases of homelessness impacted her youth How she has intentionally shaped relationships and specific boundaries with her parents in order to heal Her book, Butterflies In Me, written and designed to support children’s mental health How she intentionally made her book inclusive of many children’s marginalized backgrounds and struggles from race to mental health Links mentioned: www.water2spirit.com Water2spirit on Instagram Water2spirit on LinkedIn LinkedIn Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/water2spirit1 Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 691 with Denisea Seals.
0:05.8	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 691.
0:17.9	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:21.9	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:27.7	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day.
0:34.0	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:36.8	So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.8	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.6	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:47.1	All right.
0:47.8	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:58.6	Mamas, before we dig into this conversation today, I do want to give you a bit of a content warning that we do touch on sexual assault in this conversation.
1:01.5	So if that's something that you are not in the space to digest today or if you have little
1:06.9	ones around and you need to put on some headphones, this is your warning.
1:10.8	Denisea Seals was raised by her mother, a single parent who had not had a childhood.
1:14.6	She was a teenage mom in an abusive relationship.
1:17.6	Unfortunately, the unresolved trauma from her mother's past was projected onto
1:21.6	to Denisea from the time she was very young, leaving Denise with low self-esteem and vulnerability
1:26.6	to people who exploited her innocence.
1:28.7	A high school teacher helped Denisea realize she had a choice, to continue to hurt and to follow in her mother's footsteps or to start her own healing journey.
1:36.2	She began counseling and realized that her traumatic childhood was not her fault.
1:40.9	Denisha is now engaged in converting the pain of the past into lessons that can be shared with
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