Episode 4: Holding our Grief while Cultivating Unabashed Joy with Jamila Reddy
“There’s this expansiveness that queerness really offers. That day to day, I can move through many versions of myself. And it feels like I give myself permission to have this infinite capacity to love and to desire and to connect with as many people as possible.”
-Jamila Reddy, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs podcast, we are in conversation with Jamila Reddy (she/they). Jamila is a writer, self-empowerment coach, and life-enthusiast on a mission to help people manifest their dreams. Jamila is the creator of Make It Happen, an online course for creative, compassionate people who want to be more powerful, purposeful, and spend more time doing what they love. Jamila's podcast, Deliberate and Doing it Afraid, features personal stories from the journey to their best life and the lessons that come from it. Jamila's work has appeared on TedX, Greatist, The Body is Not An Apology, and Shine. In this thoughtful conversation, Madison & Jamila discuss holding grief at the same time of joy, creating reserve practices that hold us in times of transition and how living as queer creates a fluidity of liberation to move through different versions of the self, daily. Jamila shares about our right to feel joy and expectations around what that is "supposed to" look like during grief. Madison & Jamila also deep dive on the topic of showing up in our right to togetherness, as well as navigating fluidity & queerness within our relationship containers. Dive into this supple conversation here...
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
How joy and feeling good is non-negotiable medicine
Surrendering to being reborn and shifting into a new person, while also appreciating our "anchor points"
That self responsibility can show us just how amazingly capable we of holding the heaviness of life
Jamila's concept of reserve practices of self care and when to get started
Touch points on navigating being both defined and undefined in within thriving relationships
