Taking a Pause for an Important Cause 055
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 55.
I’ll be honest. I have so many thoughts and feelings, words I want to say about the current state of racism in our country. When I get passionate, I share. It’s just what I do.
But instead of posting a new Zimmerman Podcast episode today, where I’d inevitably let my passion and desire to empower and enact change run the conversation, I’m going to quiet my own voice and instead share the podcasts, resources, and actions that have been helpful as I begin the long overdue work of supporting the Black Lives Matter cause.
Podcasts to listen to and support
Black Women about Business Podcast
Therapy for Black Girls Podcast
1619 Podcast
Lynching in America Podcast
other resources & ways to donate and support
The Sesame Street Town Hall — Coming Up Together: Standing Up to Racism
Donate at blacklivesmatter.com
Support therapy for Black women and girls at thelovelandfoundation.org
Support reallocation of police funds in Minneapolis at reclaimtheblock.org
Donate to the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund at naacpldf.org
Support and provide scholarships to Black journalists at nabj.org
Sign the petition for Justice for Breonna Taylor at change.org
Advocate for all major retailers to devote 15% of shelf space to Black-owned businesses at 15percentpledge.org
Hire Black employees, buy from Black educators, collect books with Black characters, get your children Black dolls from Black-owned shops, watch movies with Black leads, and talk about race in your home.
We don’t have to be perfect, but we do have to act, speak, and listen the best ways we know how. Let’s get to work!
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Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 130. Reparenting your inner child is one of the most powerful tools for healing we have in our toolbox. What do I mean by “reparenting?” What do I mean by “inner child?” Some of you may be familiar with these ideas, and some of you maybe not so much.
In simple terms, your inner child is the part of your psyche that is vulnerable, needy, sensitive, and also joyful, exuberant, and honest. Most of us shove aside our childlike tendencies in adolescence to become “mature adults,” only to later realize that connecting to our inner child helps us experience the fullness of life to a greater degree.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 129.
Throughout this journey, we’ve been working hard on raising our vibrations and being responsible for the energy we give and we surround ourselves with, we’ve worked on living from soul instead of ego, and we’re currently working on removing shame and shedding limiting beliefs. I don’t think we can fully remove shame or shed limiting beliefs without dealing with the magnitude of the word should and totally eliminating it from our vocabulary. So while this Part 5 is not expected, it’s absolutely necessary.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 128.
As we close out our chapter on removing shame and shedding limiting beliefs, we’ve gotta talk about triggers and glimmers.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 127. How am I still dealing with these same issues, I wondered. I thought I had looked through everything. I had peeled back layers. I had done some major healing. For a year.
And that’s when I woke up to the real cause– and purpose– of these wounded cycles we inflict upon ourselves.
Each of us has some core wounds we internalize in childhood.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 126. Shame and limiting beliefs are like two sides of the same coin. Shame tells us that we are bad and wrong, and often, limiting beliefs can tell us that others are bad and wrong.
Let me give you an example during today’s podcast.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 125. Like most women throughout history, but even specifically those growing up like I did, in the American south in the last half a century, showing any amount of skin was met with disapproving glares, gossipy whispers, and choruses of “bless her heart.”
Can you relate? Find out in today’s podcast.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 124. Today, we’re going to give our bodies the credit they deserve. Because when we learn to honor our souls, the body can be one of the greatest sources of wisdom, working in tandem with our souls to direct us and lead us on the path back to our true selves.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 123. Have you ever been going about your day, doing something totally normal like getting groceries, logging into your email, picking your kids up from school, or going on a hike, and something happens that stops you in your tracks… some little coincidence or a moment of deja vu, or a text from a long lost friend you just had a dream about the night before?
I think most of us have.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 122. This week, we’re going to talk about what soul freedom looks like.
Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 121. My kids recently lost their great grandfather. It was an open casket. Before the visitation, I told my kids that even though they’d be looking at their great grandfather’s body, his soul was not there. Have you ever noticed that the body never really looks like the person did in life? There are many reasons for this, but the most important one, to me, is that a body isn’t really anything without a soul.