Unraveling Impulse: Recent Episodes
nissafrancisco
Sharing my personal experiences and insights as I navigate life at 40, with the goal of making others feel more seen and less alone.
In this episode I talk more about my personal experiences with racism. I share several stories from childhood to adulthood and how they impacted me.
In this episode I talk about navigating topics of race as a student in High School and University. I also share how Gender Studies introduced me to a whole new way of understanding race and the politics of feminism and blackness.
In this episode, I give share a little background on how Black History Month in Canada came to be, the erasure of Black history in Canada and how I connect to Black history through my parents stories as immigrants to Canada in the 70’s.
In this episode I talk about what self-acceptance means to me and share some of the things I’ve learned to accept about myself at the age of 40.
In this episode I unpack my relationship with rest and why we need more of it. I also go on a tangent sharing some stories on my journey with writing but manage to tie it back to rest! Yay me!
In this episode I reflect on 2021, sharing some of my biggest lessons and wins as well as my hopes for 2022.
In this episode I talk about my experience with pregnancy, giving birth and the first year of my daughter’s life. I share how I navigated unsolicited opinions, relied heavily on my intuition and gut instinct when Neylan was a baby, how I balanced my introverted nature to build connections to Mom’s I liked and more!
In this episode I talk about how most of us are on a spectrum of good and bad and how we spend too much time boxing ourselves and each other into one or the other instead of accepting that we can be both at any given time.
In this episode I talk about my reason for starting this podcast, pushing past my fear of speaking, and still feeling awkward at 40.