Rooted Chats: Recent Episodes
Rooted Chats
Rooted Chats Podcast is mainly based on having informal conversations between friends/therapists that are not as threatening as the therapeutic space. These conversations are based on healing, a little bit of personal experience, and growth. This is aimed at empowering young people into living authentically, taking care of themselves, spirituality, and have healthy relationships with themselves and others.
This episode entails reviews from our wonder listeners and audiences. They speak about their favourite episodes , their experiences and suggestions of what they would want to see on our second season .
This episode is based on becoming your own home so you have yourself to come back to when things are okay and when they are not . Embracing your scars and healing from them so you do not always run away from self and end up projecting your trauma to other people. Since we are coming to the end of season one of rooted chats Nompumelelo and Boitumelo share their experiences of having to do rooted chats ,the challenges, learning experiences , favourite episodes.
This episode is based on tattoos, music and creativity. We speak about the meaning of art. The meaning of tattoos as an expression subjective to individuals. How music is an art of healing and also how therapy is part of being creative with words to heal others .
This episode speaks on different facets of spirituality, culture and religion. We unpack what that entails for each of us, how we understand it. Nompumelelo also shares her experience of being a traditional healer, her journey and insights that she has gained thus far.
This episode looks at our narrative as women of colour (African) as well as women as a whole. Our experiences that shape us, oppression and how far we have come from a societal perspective. We touch on our relationships with ourselves and each other as women.
This episode is to unpack mental health issues experienced by men as a whole. Suicide being prevelant (Globally) amongst men is something society often overlooks. We look at some of the stigmas, perceptions and find out from our guest what his narrative is on mental health as a young West African man.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of traveling, what we should be cognizant of when traveling, and connections to people and places due to travel. Shot on the beautiful white beaches of Zanzibar.
This episode is more about setting boundaries as a way of knowing where we begin and end as individuals and also learning where others begin and end. Childhood trauma can lead to trauma response as an adult. What is childhood trauma?
This episode is more about how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationships not only with others but also with self. How are we toxic to self and also on how the way we treat ourselves is how we attract similar people. What is the contribution of trauma in all of the relationships we build and find ourselves in.
In this episode will entail us introducing ourselves, the places we grew up in and the careers we choose and how they came about. How does one become a Clinical psychologist and also how does one become a registered counselor? Our experiences of being in private practice. Explanation of our logo and why rooted chats podcast.
Rooted Chats Podcast is mainly based on having informal conversations between friends / therapists that are not as threatening as the therapeutic space. These conversations are based on healing, a little bit of personal experience and growth. This is aimed at empowering young people into living authentically, taking care of themselves, spirituality ,and having healthy relationships with themselves and others.