5. On Racial Healing and Untethering From Shame

Untethered Voice: Speak Your Truth, Show Up and Be Seen in Your Life & Soul Based Business

This week I’m speaking with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein about racial healing and how my own journey began in earnest with a shame-filled moment of her calling me in, back in 2020.

That moment and how Tovi met it and me, taught me how to work with shame in a way I never have before. It sent me on an ongoing path to be more forgiving of myself when I inevitably get things wrong. To grow my confidence in my ability to make an ongoing impact through radical self-love and acceptance.

This conversation is not only about racial healing work that I believe to be some of the most important work of our time. It’s about a path to finding our voice along with our humanity.

In this episode On Racial Healing and Untethering from Shame, Tovi and I dive into:

• The limitations of quick fixes for systemic racism and the need for ongoing self-reflection
• How shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voices
• How the medicine of forgiveness and compassion grow our capacity to do hard healing work
• The therapeutic and healing nature of racial healing autobiographies, and how they can set people free and change their mindsets

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📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com. To learn more about Tovi’s work and download the latest edition of Racial Healing Autobiographies visit: https://www.ticiess.com/racial-healing-autobiographies-ebooks

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people.

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.