Episode 1 Hot Mess Loading: A Hawks' Eye View At Black Family Dysfunction

Whew! This is a DOOZY!

Buckle up for one hell of a ride! Welcome to the Down For Disruption Podcast--The "Safe Sandbox" for black and brown women over the age of 40 who are struggling to survive midlife event WHILE battling a mental health diagnosis. Yikes!

Just think--*Hot Flashes AND Bipolar Mania *Empty Nesting AND Schizophrenia *Mammograms AND PTSD *Um, Colonoscopies AND ADHD (yes, seriously) *Hell, Divorce Depression AND Broken Vibrators...Tee Hee

In this Premier Episode, listeners will be able to tell right off the bat that the nucleus of dysfunction and ring leader of generational trauma in any black family, is usually a maternal caretaker. In this case, it's mama; or, "Mommie Dearest", as I call her.

This episode is loaded with one egregious example after another of how unimaginable trauma festers throughout one household. The free world will get a fly on the wall view of the chaos of an unstable childhood, predators running amok, and how my Mommie Dearest groomed undiagnosed mental illness when she looked the other way for years.

I mean everything from one child's rape, to the sexual violation of numerous other children, homophobia that uncles seemed to find funny, drug use, alcohol abuse, threats, brutal corporal punishment, rampant verbal abuse, one kid thrown through a plate glass screen door, neglect, and every other miscreant shenanigan that Mommie Dearest allowed under her roof. 

That's what we're discussing this week on Down for Disruption. Listen, I'm well aware that this episode, and a few others are pretty heavy. And can be triggering. Please believe that my intention with this podcast is not to spiral anyone into emotional distress. BUT, we Gen X ladies Have to unearth the layers of trauma that landed many of us in a therapist's office today.

Look what all of that Latch-key independence and survivalist upbringing did to many of us. So, I have to provide context. Please participate in the shows' breathing and self-repair exercises. They really are a tremendous help.

I thank you so much for your support! Together, we heal :)

AJ

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