Welcome to the Yard of Greatness. A healing space for Black folks to decolonise our healing and return home to ourselves. As a queer Black woman therapist, with 2 decades of experience, I explore racial trauma, intersectional identities, the mother wound, addiction, financial therapy, boundaries, and nervous system healing with a cultural context. Each episode invites you into empowering reflections, rituals, insight, and nourishment for a life beyond survival.
Do you dread your own birthday? This is a painful subject that most of my clients struggle with.
We can often feel social pressure to be grateful and happy on our birthday’s but for many of us, this is not just another trip around the sun but often traumatic and complicated with painful reminders of past disappointment, neglect, and unmet needs.
So in this episode I’m holding space for those of you with birthday complexities, we’ll explore:
Why ”Birthday Activation” is a real, valid nervous system response.
How to stop feeling shame for having human needs and wanting to be celebrated.
The layers of grief that show up on our special day and how to honor them.
Moving away from the pressure of one ”perfect” day to a more sustainable, self-nurturing approach.
You deserve to be celebrated, but that celebration starts with you. If you’re ready to shift how you handle these milestones, this conversation is for you.
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