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Through the eyes of Black and brown q***r women, Seen explores how we choose to live at the intersection of personal healing and liberation work.

20/06/2023

The wait is over! In this final episode of the season, Nic and Lala are joined by Marcellite Failla, a practitioner and scholar of African diasporic religions and spiritualities. Together, they explore the alchemy of change once more, interweaving the importance of ritual and routine, and discussing what it means to reclaim spiritual practices in a decolonized way.

17/05/2023

Have you listened to our most recent episode, Levelling Up?
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The challenges associated with growth, transformation or success are often under-discussed. Often, we imagine that getting the thing you’ve been working so hard for means you’re set, that you have it under control — but what happens in reality? In this episode, Nic and Lala are joined by Mebrat Beyene to discuss the peaks and valleys of levelling up.

02/05/2023

Have you listened to our most recent episode, Stagnancy?
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At some point along our journeys of personal growth or healing, we can find ourselves plateauing into a dreaded sense of stagnancy. In this episode, Nic and Lala explore the ways that stopping, stillness and taking stock are crucial elements to personal transformation, and how bringing more compassion and less comparison can support us in moving forward.

13/04/2023

Have you listened to our most recent episode, Hope? In this episode, Nic and Lala continue to explore transformative justice on a personal level by tackling hope: its elusiveness, some of the uncomfortable pressures that it can place on us to be toxically positive, and how a ‘grounded’ hope can serve us well.

16/03/2023

Have you listened to our most recent episode, Radical Self-Love? In this episode, Nic and Lala are joined by Nadine Tilma and explore the concept of radical self-love: how it supports the change process, what it makes possible in our lives, and how to hold the dialectic of acceptance and change.

03/03/2023

Have you listened to our most recent episode, Safety? In this episode, Nic and Lala explore safety as a condition and as something to cultivate within and around ourselves in order to foster the change we desire. They discuss what safety means to them and some of the tools we can use to create it.

09/02/2023

Our first interview is officially live! In this episode, Nic and Lala are joined by activist, organizer and writer, Harsha Walia to talk about perfectionism, the fear (or necessity) of being seen, and how visibility is never more important than our shared humanity, relationships, and connections.

07/02/2023

Transformative justice asks us to be honest about harm - where it comes from, who it’s impacting, and how we can transform those conditions to ensure that the harm can’t happen again.
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Sometimes the harm is coming from within us - the call is coming from inside the house! And this season, we’re exploring what a process of transformative justice for self could look like.
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Some questions to ask when we recognize that we’re experiencing harm within ourselves:
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How did you know that it was you?
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What have you been doing with that information?
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What are the conditions within/around yourself that allowed this harm to occur?
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What are your longings/desires around how these conditions need to change?
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Where within yourself do you feel that change is inevitable?
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For more, listen to our episode The Alchemy of Change.

27/01/2023

Our new episode, The Alchemy of Change, is out now. In this episode, Nic and Lala discuss longing, what drives change, and the magical ways that nature and a sense of wonder can both sustain and reframe how we accept the inevitabilities of transformation within ourselves.

27/01/2023

This season, we are exploring the concept of transformative justice for self - a way to heal the internal ruptures and conflicts we all struggle with.
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Some questions to begin a TJ for self process:
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Are there parts within you yearning to be expressed?
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What do you wish for yourself as you work on healing your relationship with yourself?
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What would support this internal healing?
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What do you want to forgive yourself for?
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For more, listen to our episode, Transformative Justice for Self.

12/01/2023

We’re officially back y’all! In the first episode of our new season, we talk to each other about all the ways our lives and our relationships with ourselves have changed since we first started the podcast.
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We also begin exploring the theme of this season - transformative justice for self. This is a new way we’re bringing our values and politics into our healing work, and using our healing work as an opportunity to make change in the world.
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We hope you’ll take this journey with us! Let us know if you’ve listened to the new episode, and how it lands with you 👇🏾

24/11/2022

The wait is over! SEEN is returning in January 2023 with a brand new season: The Alchemy of Change. Swipe to find out more →

In our upcoming season, The Alchemy of Change, Nic and Lala will be exploring personal healing through the lens of transformative justice. We will be asking what it takes, what it feels like, and what results when we undertake processes of change that transform us and bring us the healing that we need and deserve.

Transformative justice asks us to not just respond to harm after it has already happened, to not stay in the realm of blame, punishment, and status quo. It asks us to transform the very conditions that allowed harm to happen in the first place. To dream something better into existence.

When harm happens in this world - through violence, oppression, abuse, neglect, deprivation, or other ills we suffer through - it alienates us from each other. But it does more than that. It splits us apart from within and alienates us from ourselves.

This internal splitting is no less complex, no less difficult to heal than the ruptures that happen in our external relationships. Some of us spend entire lifetimes raging against ourselves; shaming and forcefully suppressing parts of ourselves; nursing deep grudges against ourselves. Some spend entire lifetimes stuck in a feeling of having betrayed ourselves. Some find over time that we have become strangers to ourselves.

And from this state of internal conflict, it is much more difficult to feel into the joy, freedom, and embodiment that is our birthright. It is much more difficult to repair the ruptures that occur in our external relationships. It is much more difficult to even imagine collective liberation, nevermind fighting for and building it. For all these reasons, personal healing work is essential, foundational, and urgent.

But many of us come to personal healing work with such deep internal tensions that reconciling with ourselves feels impossible. We blame ourselves for our pain, we judge ourselves for struggling, we punish ourselves for our mistakes, we pathologize ourselves and see our wounds as proof that we are fundamentally flawed.

And just as punitive, shaming processes do nothing to heal and prevent future harms from taking place in our broader society, these feelings and attitudes work as barriers to our own personal healing.

This is why we feel called to explore a transformative justice for the self. We believe that by transforming the conditions within and around ourselves, we can heal harms we’ve endured and create lives for ourselves that we couldn’t have otherwise imagined. We can create homes within ourselves, and in doing so, become a site of deep change for our communities.

In our upcoming season, we will be getting curious about what this kind of inner and outer transformation can look and feel like. We will deep dive into the alchemy of change, moving through the sweet and the bitter aspects of the process - and everything in between. Over 10 episodes this winter, with guests including Harsha Walia, jaye simpson, Mebrat Beyene, Nadine Tilma, and Marcellite Failla, we will explore safety, grief, stagnancy, radical self-love, the fear of being seen, the spiritual dimensions of change, and much more.

21/04/2022

As the pandemic stretches on, Nic and Lala turn away from isolation and dream into the communities that would nourish and sustain them, exploring the intentionality, values, and vulnerability that would be required to bring these dreams into reality.
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Our new episode “How do we build the communities of our dreams?” is out now.

15/04/2022

Affirmations for Therapeutic Time Travellers
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To my younger self:

I give you the attention, the validation, the comfort, and recognition that you deeply deserved then, and still deserve now.

I honor the small, younger parts of me that are still stuck in the painful memories and experiences. I have survived.

From my future self:

I claim the things I intuitively know I desire to bring into being. I am ready. I’ve been ready.

I embrace my power in knowing that I’m already doing the work; I’ve already paved the foundation. I have arrived, and will continue arriving.
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Our episodes “What would you want your younger self to know?” and “What would your future self want you to know?” are out now.

13/04/2022

Are the things that make us roll over in laughter separate from who we are and our sense of what’s right? When is laughter medicine, and when is it something more harmful? In this episode, Nic and Lala break down their ideas about comedy, the responsbibility of the comedian, and the alchemy they believe comedy can offer us.
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Our episode - What’s So Funny? - is out now.

01/04/2022

If we were freed from the pressures of healing our past, or controling our present, what would we be able to access about who we are, and all we’ve done? In this episode, Nic and Lala explore what it means to tap into distant parts to receive the wisdom they’ve held all along.
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Our new episode - What Would Your Future Self Want You to Know? - is out now.
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Song of the week: I Am by Kindred the Family Soul

09/03/2022

What would you want your younger self to know?
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Do you know how to make contact with your younger self? In this episode, Nic and Lala explore therapeutic time travel and begin to transform the circumstances that keep parts of them stuck in the past.
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Our new episode is out now.

03/03/2022

An affirmation for those who are feeling misunderstood:
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The vulnerable, insecure parts of me that want connection and acceptance and understanding are valid.
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Our episode “What Is Misunderstood About You?” is out now.

02/03/2022

An affirmation for those who are feeling misunderstood:
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I won’t be boxed into others’ ideas of who I am. Others may count me out, but I won’t.
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Our episode “What Is Misunderstood About You?” is out now.

01/03/2022

Witnessing myself is the foundation of knowing myself. People’s misunderstandings of me do not discredit or take away from the fullness of who I am.
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Our episode “What Is Misunderstood About You?” is out now.

23/02/2022

We long to be seen the way we see ourselves - to be understood. And yet, what seems to be a foundational part of being in relationship often feels elusive. In this episode, Nic and Lala discuss the inevitability, the pain, and the gifts of being misunderstood.
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“What is misunderstood about you?” is out now.

10/02/2022

How do you define success?

Success is a loaded word, coopted by capitalism and often connected to money, power, fame and fortune. But do these definitions of success actually work for you? In this episode, Nic and Lala offer reflections on what this word means and how we can re-orient ourselves to it.

Our new episode is out now.

04/02/2022

Affirmations:
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Period or not, my body is worthy of the care, curiosity, and support it requires.
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However I choose to manage and relate to my period is my business.
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Periods are not supposed to hurt.
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My body doing what it does is not something I will be shamed for.
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02/02/2022

If you think menstruation is gross, you’re not mature enough to have s*x with people who menstruate. Sorry not sorry. We said what we said.
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01/02/2022

Not ones to beat around the bush, in this episode Nic and Lala dive in to discuss the impact that their periods have had on them over time, how they've navigated pain and intimacy, and what it means to chart a new course in their relationship to their cycles.
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“What does your period mean to you?” is out now.
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21/01/2022

5 of Nic’s ‘Insecure’ Affirmations
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1. Sometimes my defaults need to be checked, like living in my head and second-guessing my decisions.
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2. I can grow and change into a different person that is still worthy of love and friendship, and I can give my friends the grace and space they need to do the same.
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3. Even though it looks like I have my s**t together, I can still be a hot mess. A loveable, hot mess. And I don’t need to pretend that I’m not.
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4. Being authentically myself means I change my mind – I’m not fixed to the person that others believe I am. I’m responsible for showing up as myself, as I evolve.
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5. When I’m passive—when I allow fear, self-rejection, and shame to cloud my vision of what my power is—I’m actively resisting abundance. The first step in claiming my abundance can often be taking one step forward. The rest will figure itself out.

Our episode What Are You Taking From ‘Insecure’? is out now.

19/01/2022

One of our favourite lessons from Insecure, particularly season 5, is that it’s okay to change your mind. It doesn’t matter how committed you’ve been to something, it doesn’t matter how many people know about it, it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks about it, it doesn’t matter how far behind you feel. It’s okay to decide that you want something you never thought you’d want. It’s okay to completely change course. It’s okay to surprise everyone in your life, including yourself.
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Our episode What Are You Taking From ‘Insecure’? is out now.

12/01/2022

We’re back with a new episode, “What are you taking from ‘Insecure’?”
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After five seasons of beautiful, Black excellence, dazzling visuals, a soundtrack that just won’t quit, and laughs to last forever, our beloved comedy series has ended. In this spoiler-laden episode, Nic and Lala chat about their biggest takeaways and lessons learned from watching Issa Rae’s HBO series.
Song of the week: Insecure by Jazmine Sullivan

17/12/2021

With the frequency and intensity of climate events recently, it’s getting more impossible to deny that we are living in times of climate catastrophe. For most of us, it’s unnerving to recognize that even if things are ok in this moment, they may not always be – that what we have right now can no longer be taken for granted.
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Many of us are bracing ourselves in fear, grief, and anger at the apathetic incrementalism, green-washing, empty promises and excuses that governments, corporations and community members engage in daily.
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How have you coped during this year’s surge of catastrophic climate events? Have you felt personally impacted? Have you felt tuned into the changes that are happening on the territories and lands that you reside on? Do you feel prepared?
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During times of considerable change – when what comes next feels unforeseen and deeply unnerving, the reality of loss, destruction and the inevitability of death can feel closer than ever.
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The shadow of impending doom can make us feel removed from the equation, but when we reinsert ourselves back into the picture, we may be driven to recognize that we, too, will die one day.
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The precariousness of life can’t be lost on us to the point where we “tap out” entirely – so what can we do? There are other options to blocking everything out because it feels unfamiliar and unknown, for example, we can focus on what we have agency, control, and choice over right now.
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Establishing presence and intentionality in the face of impending doom can help ground us, and so can committing ourselves to living as well as we can today, tomorrow, and each day we are gifted. (continued in comments)

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Sitting alone with ourselves can give us the opportunity to meet ourselves where we’re at. This looks like becoming better acquainted with what grounds us: our thoughts, our experiences as we live them, and our bodies. From there, we can move to a place of acceptance and appreciation of who we are. . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #bipoc #qtbipoc #qtpoc #qtpochealing #qtbipochealing #nobodyhere #personalispolitical #solitude #yvrpodcast #vancouverpodcast #vancouverpodcasts

Womxn of colour, like Ilhan Omar, are frequently attacked for our expressions of anger. We’re often seen as militant and violent, rather than passionate and morally astute. When we’re held to these ridiculously high standards, our energies are wasted on keeping *some people* comfortable at the expense of our own wellbeing. . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #bipoc #qtbipoc #qtpochealing #qtbipochealing #wheredyourlovego #anger #mad #yvrpodcast #vancouverpodcast

Many BIPOC are pressured to minimize the impact of racism, and fear sharing our experiences on race with white people. In this episode, Lala and Nic reckon with the ways that we feel uncomfortable when discussing race with white people—even our own partners and significant others. But while we’re preoccupied with the perceptions of white folks, our own ability to speak our truths is cut short. . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #bipoc #qtbipoc #qtpochealing #qtbipochealing #inaperfectworld #interracialdating #interracialrelationships #personalispolitical

In this episode, Nic and Lala get vulnerable and discuss intimate relationships with white people, diving into their own cognitive dissonance and internalized racism. SEEN recognizes that if you want to live with integrity, you have to interrogate even the most personal aspects of your life. Are you ready? . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #bipoc #qtbipoc #qtpochealing #qtbipochealing #inaperfectworld #interracialdating #interracialrelationships #personalispolitical

What we see around us guides what we imagine for ourselves. Lala and Nic believe that as womxn of colour, it’s vital that we see representations of ourselves in positions of power, and have colleagues who share our identities. . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #bipoc #qtbipoc #qtpochealing #qtbipochealing #ambitionsandaccolades

Talking about family can make us feel a sense of pride and love. But it can also be difficult to reckon with the harm we experience in our families, even when love is present. Lala and Nic believe we can balance the protection of our communities while showing up for ourselves and our needs. . . . . . #seenpodcast #browneyedactivism #BIPOC #QTBIPOC #qtbipochealing

Survivors of violence ain’t nothing to f**k with, and Nic is 100% that bitch. Hear the whole story in our episode U.N.I.T.Y. Coming soon.

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