Jada Pinkett Smith: Conscious Uncoupling, Dismantle Your Ego & Sit in The Bosom of God
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Jada Pinkett Smith (actor, producer, musician, host, author, advocate) joins us to break down her struggles with depression and CPTSD, the status of her marriage to Will Smith, “The Slap”, her ayahuasca experience, and connecting with her higher power. She discusses what it was like growing up in a household with substance abuse struggles, having to sell drugs as a means to provide for herself, and how she met and became close with Tupac. Jada opens up about her panic attacks, suicidal ideations and subsequent attempts, and the taboo nature of therapy in her community. She reflects on her codependent nature, the intoxication of her courtship with Will, the break they took from their marriage, public pressure they’ve faced, the nature of their “open relationship”, and why they never actually divorced. Mayim and Jada discuss the patriarchal components of women being held responsible for the actions of men and Mayim and Jonathan demonstrate somatic tracking.
Jada Pinkett Smith's memoir, Worthy: https://a.co/d/c0SN2xi
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| 0:00.0 | My body starts to shake this like overwhelming amount of, I'm talking about the most intense |
| 0:09.9 | wave of emotion just came over me and tears just building up in my eyes and you know and |
| 0:17.1 | just flood out of my eyes and I'm like I don't know what's happening. My brain can't catch up |
| 0:22.8 | to the response of my body. I'm like I got to get out of here and I go in my car and I'm thinking |
| 0:28.0 | I'm gonna drive and all I could do was get to the next corner and just turn down the side street |
| 0:34.1 | in park and I'm so terrified to allow what's coming over me so I'm fighting it and that just made |
| 0:41.6 | it worse. Then I started getting these intense feelings of I don't want to be here anymore and it |
| 0:48.0 | was almost like if I didn't get somebody in that house with me my hand was involuntarily |
| 0:55.4 | going to get a knife and slash my wrist. I've always been the villain in this dynamic. |
| 1:03.1 | Once we got to the Oscars there were like there is no way we'll would have done this. |
| 1:08.4 | Jada some way you know put her villainous energy you know she wrote her eyes and made them fly |
| 1:18.5 | up on the stage. It's like that's how powerful we are when we're the villain right that's the only |
| 1:22.9 | time we ever have power mind you. But that's part of the whole patriarchal idea right and so |
| 1:32.3 | I went to the Oscars with Will as a family member. We hadn't called each other husband and wife |
| 1:39.0 | beneath and so when he said keep my name's wife out of your mouth I was like |
| 1:45.6 | damn oh okay I was in shock to see everybody else because we hadn't been on that flow. |
| 1:56.9 | It's so funny how in an event an intense event can amplify love because as soon as I saw that |
| 2:07.2 | villain in trouble and as soon as I saw what it was going to be once we left that building I said |
| 2:16.0 | I'm his wife now we don't get through this together and that's the moment that I knew I said man |
| 2:22.5 | I'm like I'll be able to get away from this man. I've been trying to get rid of his ass for six years |
| 2:32.9 | I said you know what? All right God I surrender I surrender there's not going to be no separation |
| 2:40.8 | there's not going to be no divorce he's what I got all right fine and that's that's what it is. |
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