I'm excited to share this podcast conversation with one of my dearest friends Akilah Riley-Richardson. Akilah has been in clinical practice for 16 years, is based in Trinidad and Tobago, and specializes in work with sexual and racial minorities. In this conversation, Akilah and I talk about relational privilege and the impact historical and race based trauma has on relationships. Akilah teaches to pivot, rumble and imagine to help gain a sense of where the hurt is, what the body needs, and how these needs connect back to the behaviors expressed is relationship…and what is needed now. And we rumble with the politics of interest, the impact of feeling that your experiences in the world matter (or don’t) within intimate relational spaces.

RESOURCES: 

Find Akilah online at akilahrileyrichardson.com, and dive in even deeper to learn more with Akilah in her Academy of Therapy Wisdom course Relational Privilege and Systemic Trauma: Confronting Race and Sex Discrimination in Couples Work

additional resources mentioned in this episode:

Resmaa Menakem

Shawn A. Ginwright’s The Four Pivots

adrienne maree brown’s concept of radical imagination (see this poem)

If you want to dive in deeper with Rebecca, consider joining our Relationship Bootcamp or exploring her offerings to deepen your relational skills and expand your self-care.  Learn more at connectfulness.com

Also, please check out our sister podcast, Why Does My Partner

Mentioned in this episode:

WDMP Integrating Heart+Mind

WDMP Integrating Heart+Mind