
mental health, podcast
Episode 38: Introduced to the Foster Care System + the Quest for Questions Began
Guest: Felicia Carty Felicia openly shares that her upbringing began with a mother who suffered with undiagnosed schizophrenia, and when she was the tender age of 6, one day at school, she met her two older brothers at the school office where they were then taken and placed in foster care. She remained in the […]
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mental health, podcast
Episode 37: Living in the Present in Full Vulnerability When 9/11 Turned it all Upside Down
Guest: Marnie Sigmar Marnie’s story is all about bringing her son, Joe, into the world as the dust was settling in New York from the 9/11 attacks which became a transformative experience for her. Her story circles around her experience of getting pregnant and having a scheduled delivery on that same day, while residing in […]
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mental health, podcast
Episode 36: Dreams Do Come True When You Breakthrough ‘Your’ Shackles
Guest: Dr. Naira Velumyan Dr. Naira takes the time to convey what it was like to be a child of divorce from the age of three being brought up in Moscow, Russia. Expressing that her mother was busy with her personal life and her father oblivious to her needs, Dr. Naira felt alone from this […]
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mental health, podcast
Episode 35: Traumatically Segregated on Multiple Levels Due to Her Divergent Personality
Guest: Karima Jaffer Karima voices what it has been like to be caught in a system she believes has failed her by giving her a false mental health diagnosis leading to a life altering narrative, combined with the difficulties that come along with her identity as an ethnically mixed Muslim woman of colour. She shares […]
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