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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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When you think about the term “family history tools,” images of gigantic binders, wrinkled family history charts, and dusty rolls of microfilm probably come to mind. While these items can be useful, there’s another less obvious set of tools we need when we research—especially when we learn about challenging aspects of our family history. For this episode, we invited Dr. Ofa Hofaka to discuss emotional tools we need as we approach body dysmorphia, mental health, and internalized racism in family history work.

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0:00.0	In this episode we discuss body dysmorphia and internalized racism and its impact through our family histories.
0:08.0	These are difficult topics and we know that body dysmorphia and internalized racism cause a lot of pain to many, many people.
0:16.0	We just want to let everyone know that we love you and we are sending you healing energy
0:20.0	whether you decide to listen to this or not.
0:22.3	Hey me, yeah. Hey Michelle. whether you decide to listen to this or not.
0:23.9	Hey Mia. Hey Michelle.
0:24.7	So do you remember a while back when my house flooded
0:28.3	and I was living in a hotel for three months?
0:30.6	Yeah, that was crazy.
0:32.2	It was a nightmare. so we had a flood up in the
0:35.6	upstairs and it went all through the HVAC system to the downstairs. It was a nightmare
0:41.2	but it was also crazy because at that time there was like a
0:44.4	shortage of skilled craftsmen or you know people that helped you remodel your
0:48.7	house. We could not find anyone to help us like remodel. So I had to do a lot of it myself. Well my husband and I
0:55.7	together and I was like learning all these new skills and these new tools and it really
1:00.5	made me think about family history because there are so many tools we can use that we don't even know about.
1:06.5	Mea, there's a stereotype about like what tools would be needed to do family history work.
1:11.2	What would you say would be like all the tools
1:14.4	that you would need to do family history work effectively?
1:17.6	Sure.
1:17.9	So the most common tools I hear people tell me
1:21.5	that they would use for family history is records, a binder to put all your records in.
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