B3coming Podcast: Recent Episodes
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B3coming is a podcast designed to inspire, empower and uplift our listeners. We discuss a variety of topics, sowing seeds of thought and watering your minds with positivity and purpose, enabling you to become the best version of yourself.
Enjoy becoming the best version of you!
In this episode we interview Marissa Forrester, a British performing artist and wellness warrior living in LA.
Marissa shares her incredibly inspirational wellness journey and provides us with some useful tips from her wellness tool box such as; women embracing their inner enchantress, using dance as a self-care practice and practising mindful eating.
Self-care looks different to everyone. Creating the time and space to explore how best to release and tend to your needs all depends on what works for you.
This year has felt like a social experiment for many. The periods of lockdown have changed how we interact with others and ourselves, offering opportunities to reflect and review.
This episode analyses the Youtube channel Blue Therapy and its most recent and controversial participants.
What is my purpose? Why am I here?
Disclaimer: This episode explores depression and suicidal ideation.
Depression is the most common mental illness with 19.2% of the UK population currently experiencing symptoms. Whilst postnatal depression is known to affect more than 1 in every 10 women within a year of giving birth, many women continue to suffer in silence in fear of judgement and rejection.
In this episode, our guest Shakyla-Rae shares her story of coming to terms with her mental health condition and seeking help.
Mental health affects 1 in 4 people in the UK each year but why is it that those who come from black and other ethnic groups are over-represented in these statistics? In this episode we discuss the contributing factors, mental health support and the stigmas attached to mental health. We are also joined by Wahida a champion for raising awareness, who shares her experience and journey with mental health.
In acknowledgment of Autism Awareness Week this episode amplifies the voice of a mother who fought for her son's ASD diagnosis for a total of 7 strenuous years.
The Autism spectrum covers a wide range of needs from high functioning Autism to Asperger's. It is important to highlight that wherever a person finds themselves on the spectrum, each individual may experience Autism differently.
This mother shares the steps that she had put in place to ensure that her son's ASD needs were met independent of his first educational setting.
Episode 3 explores the social phenomena of code-switching and brings to light the challenges minority groups face when tasked with alternating between two states of self to appease the class and culture of other individuals within the group.
There is often a buzz of discontent when a teenage mother announces her pregnancy, followed by exasperated sighs and murmurs of "Your life is over now". This can often leave young mothers feeling unsupported, ashamed and isolated.
This episode highlights the journey of teenage pregnancy to motherhood and an important message that you have the ability to shape your future.
At the start of each year many of us see ourselves setting New Year’s resolutions and tying ourselves to goals and targets which we often do not meet. If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that we do not always have complete control over our lives, especially when worldly events encroach upon our plans. In this episode we discuss why New Year’s resolutions may now be a thing of the past.
Meet the two Black British women who created B3coming and discover the meaning behind the name.