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.
In this episode, I’m marking 16 years in recovery. Yay me!! Looking back to 2010, the person I was then had very specific ideas about what healing and racial sobriety would look like. The reality of my journey has been far more profound and wonderful than I could ever have imagined.
Today, I’m opening up about living in the promises of recovery, the truth about racialised complex trauma, decolonising spirituality, and the power of prioritising to rest. Recovery doesn't make me perfect, and it didn’t remove all the pain, but it did give me hope, a future, the capacity to dream and a way to navigate life without feeling like everything is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Join me as I reflect on how these recovery years have changed everything, from my relationships to the way I love and care for myself. If you’re on your own path of recovery, or if you’ve ever felt like you’re just surviving rather than living, this conversation is for you.
You can explore my work on recovery and racial sobriety at www.heal.juneallen.net If you have questions for future episodes, please email me at info@yardofgreatness.com Please remember this is not a substitute for therapy. If this episode helped you or could help a friend, please share it.