Ooh, whoh, whoh, whoh,

come, come on y'all.

Welcome home, co-journers. I'm so glad you're here and I am excited about today's

episode. We're going to talk about holistic healing from sexual trauma, holistic healing from sexual trauma.

holistic healing from sexual trauma.

And we have a very special guest with us on today,

Dr. Sheena Young, who is a licensed body centered psychologist, healer,

artist. She owns a private practice and body truth healing and psychological services rooted in Los Angeles, California,

where she offers mind, body, heart, spirit care in healing from sexual racial intergenerational and ancestral trauma.

Dr. Sheena's work has been featured in Bustle, Huffington Post, The Lily by the Washington Post, and

therapy for black girls. She is consulted for the body, a home for love, body girl in Own, Loveland Foundation, and Me Too Movement

Communities. I am delighted to say along with being a colleague. She is a dear sister friend and I am grateful for

her presence and want to celebrate her new book, Body Rights, A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma.

Welcome, Dr. Sheena.

Thank you,

so special to hear you introducing me given our long journey together.

Yes, well, this time is so special for me and I will start with your voice and many times when we have presented together you have talked about both the softness and the strength that you carry and when I read the opening prayer of your book it talks about us being soft and fierce.

May your collective body be soft and fierce.

And I wanted to start with that question

of why is it important for us to embrace both our softness and our fierceness?

I love this so much Dr. Tama and before we respond I just want to offer a content and care warning, a take care warning for anyone that may be listening given that we will be talking about trauma and sexual trauma specifically and in that

opening prayer also acknowledging guides and ancestor survivors specifically that want to show up to this conversation.

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