Healing is the Revolution
Healing is the Revolution is a collection of podcasts brought to you by the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES), a community-based public health non-profit founded in New Orleans in 1993. The first podcast is "Healing is the Revolution,"
a soulful, intimate, and honest one-on-one conversation with IWES' Founder, noted psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr. Denese Shervington, and a guest. Individuals share intimate - and at times tragic - stories of creating successful lives beyond their traumatic beginnings and for some, untreated experiences. The series features a range of guests: each episode a personal story revealing joys, pains, and a path to healing. Dr. Shervington pulls from her training and study in both eastern and western healing modalities to guide these explorations of past, present, and future. In her own words, she describes the podcast as a place where “everyday people like us bare our souls as we try to learn from each other the naked truth of living.”
The second podcast is "Should I Get A Doula?," an exploratory journey into the world of doulas and doula care so that host Iman Shervington, IWES' Sr. Director of Media & Communications, — a 40 year-old Black women without kids yet — can decide whether or not a doula is right for her. Over five episodes, Iman speaks with doulas, people who gave birth with a doula, and an OB-GYN to answer every question she could think of relating to doulas and how they can support healthy pregnancies, especially for Black families, who disproportionately have the worst pregnancy outcomes in the United States. Whether you're planning for pregnancy, are curious about becoming a doula, want to know information for the future, or haven't even thought about it yet, through open dialogue and frank and honest stories, this podcast shares a lot of wisdom that you need to know.
Healing is the Revolution
Flozell Daniels | Finding Joy in Justice
Flozell Daniels’s story is rather unique, yet some may say it's unfortunately not uncommon. These days Flozell thrives as the President and CEO of the Foundation for Louisiana, likely possible through the foundation he received growing up in an African American community in New Orleans that was idyllic and secure despite its issues. In this episode Flozell speaks of strong maternal figures and a father who always showed up and guided him, which helped him feel sure of the role he in turn would play in the future. But life dealt him one of the cruelest of blows. Only a few years past a trauma that still reduces him to his knees in tears, he employs a range of self-care and healing strategies to answer his broken heart’s question “how am I supposed to live?” Flozell shares how his personal and community fight for joy and justice have intertwined and keeps him on his healing journey.
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