Anjelah Johnson-Reyes: Trauma Brought The Gift of Help
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Mayim Bialik
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes (stand-up comedian, actress, author) discusses her journey from professional cheerleader to stand up comedy, the benefits of aligning with your intuition, and how she was able to work through physical and emotional trauma with her dad. She opens up about relying on God to reveal her path in life, how her family’s fear about not fitting into American culture kept her from exploring her heritage, and the mindblowing paranormal experience that put her supernatural podcast on hiatus. Mayim and Anjelah recount going on a USO tour together. They consider the difficulty of breaking family patterns, the benefits of assessing practical outcomes for anxiety-inducing situations, and why we subconsciously assign others authority roles over us.
Anjelah Johnson-Reyes' book, Who Do I Think I Am?: https://www.worthypublishing.com/titles/anjelah-johnson-reyes/who-do-i-think-i-am/9781546000457/
See Anjelah Johnson-Reyes on tour: https://anjelah.com/#tour
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| 0:00.0 | And I had never had a conversation with my dad about the trauma that has been causing |
| 0:06.2 | my life because of his actions. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm writing out everything from never hearing, I'm proud of you, never hearing any of those |
| 0:15.3 | types of things to him competing with me, to verbally abusive, physically abusive, like |
| 0:23.4 | all the things growing up. |
| 0:25.1 | And this is the first time you've kind of tackled this with him. |
| 0:28.0 | Ever. |
| 0:29.0 | I said, I wrote you a letter, I'm going to read it to you. |
| 0:32.7 | And he's like, okay. |
| 0:34.6 | And I was like, I want you to not say anything during this letter. |
| 0:39.5 | Just listen. |
| 0:40.6 | Just listen. |
| 0:41.6 | Afterwards, you can ask me questions, we could talk about it. |
| 0:45.2 | I don't want you to say anything. |
| 0:46.3 | And he's like, okay. |
| 0:47.5 | I start reading my letter. |
| 0:49.6 | The whole time I'm reading it. |
| 0:51.9 | What? |
| 0:52.9 | Wow. |
| 0:53.9 | I remember that. |
| 0:56.1 | When? |
| 0:59.1 | My dad does not have the capacity to understand his own trauma and the trauma he has caused. |
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