When We Speak is a podcast where we have inspirational, candid, and empowering conversations. It’s a place where we share insight into how we cope, heal, and find meaning in a wide range of experiences. Hosted by mental health therapist, speaker, and author of “What Children Remember”, Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW.
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55. Polyamory and Queerness with Marta Sierra, LMHC
Today's convo is with my very good friend Marta and this is her second time appearing on the podcast. We discuss our queerness, religious upbringing, her introduction into polyamory and ethically non-monogamous relationships, the values that she brings into her work as an IFS clinician, and what she's learned about love because of her identity and relationships.
54. Becka Eppley, Jen Kinney, Marla Taviano
Today's episode is with three women who have deconstructed their faith and beliefs, are on a continued journey to become anti-racist, and they use their voice to advocate for marginalized and oppressed communities. I asked them to come on my podcast because I wanted to hear about their journey, which included a lot of loss, grief, trauma, and healing.
53. Nicki Pappas
Today's conversation is with my friend Nicki Pappas and we are discussing her forthcoming memoir, As Familiar As Family. We also discuss her experiences with spiritual trauma and other traumas, deconstructing her faith, what it means to have an embodied faith.
52. Self-Publishing Lessons and Gratitude
Today's episode is all about what I learned and what I wish I would have known while self-publishing my book, What Children Remember. The past 2 years of witnessing my book reach people all over the world has amazed me in ways I can't describe. Thank you to every person who has supported me, shared my book, and reached out to let me know that my story resonated with you.
51. Marla Taviano
Today's episode is with Marla Taviano, author of her newest book unbelieve: poems on the journey to becoming a heretic. This episode is in honor of Rachel Held Evans who inspired much of Marla's deconstruction and decolonizing journey. We discuss Marla's book, how she wrestled with her faith beliefs, what/who she lost, what she's gained, her passion for books and people, and lastly she turns the tables and asks me about my book What Children Remember.
50. IFS and Transracial Adoptee Trauma with Marta Sierra, LMHC
Today's conversation is with my friend Marta and we are discussing IFS and transracial adoptee trauma, her experience of being raised in a predominantly White environment and the many layers of complex PTSD.
49. IFS and Psychedelics with Candace Oglesby, LCPC and Victor Cabral, MSW, LSW, CCTP-I
In today's episode I am with two of my closest friends Candace Oglesby, LCPC and Victor Cabral, MSW, LSW, CCTP-I. We discuss Internal Family Systems ( IFS), Psychedelic-assisted therapy, working with the Black community, and tips for finding psychedelic practitioners .
48. Christa Couture
Today's convo is with my guest Christa Couture. We discuss her book, How To Lose Everything and how grief gave meaning to her gifts, shaped and redefined her role in her community, the importance of naming grief and attending to it, what grounds her today. We also discuss advocacy and how being disabled empowered her to advocate for herself and her daughter.
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), disabled, queer, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records.
47. Andre Henry
Today's convo is with Andre Henry and we discuss his new book All The White Friends I Couldn't Keep, compromises we make when we are in relationship with people who are non-Black, how the murder of Eric Garner became a wake-up call, and anti-Blackness that exists in all of us.
When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships with white people. As he began using his artistic gifts to share his experiences and perspective, Henry was aggrieved to discover that many white Americans—people he called friends and family—were more interested in debating whether racism existed or whether Henry was being polite enough in the way he used his voice.
46. Dr. Patrice Berry
In today's conversation we speak with Dr. Patrice Berry about her book, "Turning Crisis into Clarity", the mental health stigma in the Black community, how to find the right therapist, and how she became a social media influencer and content creator.
Dr. Patrice Berry is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She provides outpatient therapy at her private practice, and specializes in treating children, families, and adults with histories of trauma, adoption, depression, anxiety, and adjustment/life stage issues. As a speaker, she provides educational trainings on mental health awareness, integrating faith and mental health, and the impact of racism on marginalized communities. She also provides educational information on social media including Tiktok, Youtube, and Instagram. She will be joining me today to discuss her new book Turning Crisis into Clarity: How to survive or thrive in the midst of uncertainty.
45. Black Clinicians and Internal Family Systems
Today my guests and I are discussing Internal Family Systems ( IFS), how we were introduced to the model, what we've learned about ourselves because of IFS, how it impacts our lives and relationships, and how IFS has given us the language to communicate our pain, and what it means to be a Black woman and Black therapist in the IFS community. Please join me and guests:
Crystal R. Jones, LCSW
Andrieah Johnson, LMHC
Requina Barnes, LICSW
44. The Ancestor Project
Today's episode is with Undrea Wright and Charlotte James, creators of The Ancestor Project. Our discussion is all about sacred earth medicines and their work with the BIPOC community. We delve into their inspiration for starting the Ancestor Project, reclaiming ancestral practices, the medical model's stigma against plant and animal medicine, what they've learned about themselves while doing this work, and what they've learned about healing and community. This is such a rich and beautiful discussion.