Breaking Cycles of Trauma | With Robyn Pendleton, LCSW
In this episode of Brainwaves by Opus, we sit down with Robyn Pendleton, LCSW, a clinician whose work spans foster care, shelters, community mental health, and culturally responsive trauma therapy.
Robyn brings a rare blend of clinical experience, cultural perspective, and personal healing — incl...
The Lies That Black Women Believe...Part 1
In this episode of the Love You To Life Podcast, Elizabeth White and Calvalyn Day open a series they promised would be a "doubler-downer", a raw, funny, and deeply necessary conversation about the lies Black women have been told about our bodies, our worth, and our right to feel. This is Part 1, ...
LET FREEDOM RING Part 4
SHOW NOTES Episode #19:
LET FREEDOM RING – Part #4 – written and shared by j-so – aka janis small omide – 10/01/2026.
COVER ART:The portrait of Joseph Rainey, the first African American elected to the House of Representatives, is seated in a distinctive House Chamber chair designed in 1857. The...
S2:E44 How to Transmute Pain into Purpose (And Reclaim Your Power)
In this episode of Empowerment Junction, we dive into the transformative power of transmutation—the art of taking difficult experiences, negative energy, and unexpected hardships, and converting them into wisdom, boundaries, and purpose.
Drawing insights from the HBO series Lovecraft Country, his...
Bonus: A Cavalcade of the Diaspora with Malcolm McFadden
Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Malcolm McFadden, the writer and founder behind Six Fifteen Comics and the voice of Yo! A Nerd, into the Black and Snerdy universe for a bonus conversation about building an indie comic book universe from the ground up...
Healing, Not Fixing Black Men, Especially When They See the World Differently
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Summary:
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Patrice N. Douglas LP, LMFT to explore what neurodivergence can look like through the liv...
Neutrality, Inheritance & Jesus | Carl Garrison | Mark 3:1–6
Is “staying above the fray” really the faithful choice?
In this reflection on Mark 3:1–6, Carl Garrison looks at the scene in the synagogue. A man with a withered hand is suffering, and the religious leaders stay silent to protect the order of things. Drawing on Joy DeGruy’s Post Traumatic Sl...
Ep 70: Celebrate: Why Celebrating Yourself Is An Act of Resistance
Welcome to the third week of October! This month on the podcast, we are continuing our deep dive into celebrating ourselves. If you are anything like me, celebrating probably wasn't something you were encouraged to do growing up. High performance was expected, and staying humble, or deflective, w...
OTS 2L5 | Black Mental Health: Healing Beyond Survival ft. Ashton Lockhart, LCSW
Surviving gets us through the day. Healing allows us to imagine tomorrow.
For generations, Black communities have shown incredible resilience, but somewhere along the way survival became normalized and healing became optional. In this lesson, DevSki and Ms. Kam welcome licensed clinical social ...
Missing the Crazy....
Episode is missing the fearless leader - wishing Julie safe travels. The King discusses news of the week, other news of the week and a riveting conversation between John Graham, author of Plantation Theory and Dr. Joy Degruy, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (revised in 2017). The big ques...
