Recollect Season 3 Episode 5 – with Khadijah Ali-Coleman: Black Mothers Reckoning with Our 2022 Year & Recollecting What Our Daughters Taught Us

Recollect: Black Women Decolonizing thru Story & Nature

Note to Listener: Listen to it all. There are a number of times that Khadijah and I say goodbye, but in Black folk fashion, we strike up another and another conversation. LOL! In this episode Khadijah Ali-Coleman and I are recollecting what our daughters have taught us. It is March, and my daughter is turning 22. Wow! From tiny hands that I hold in mine to manicures. It so happens that this episode was recorded December 2022 and Khadijah has COVID but is still bringing the fire and the laughs. She has long since recovered. We talk about things we've said to our daughters that we wish we could put back in our mouths and not offer them our multigenerational fears, but support them with grace. We are learning and can only move forward with grace. One way to do that is to be the Black mothers that we are, to talk it out so that we recant the fearful messages through recollecting and reflecting. After we say goodbye for the third time we talk about how Black women compartmentalize stress in our bodies and minds and how we hope to become more mindful so that we heal and stay happy. Thank you for listening to our laughter through this grounded conversation. May it inspire your wellness and growth. Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is an author, a playwright and a researcher and writer on the homeschool experience. She is the Director of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zelda-lockhart/support