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102 | Healing your Multiracial Inner Child with Farzana Nayani

Release Date: 05/12/2021

103 | How to Re-Enter in a Supportive and Aligned Way

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After over a year of living a very different way, things around us are changing again, mostly for the better. And, as more folks get vaccinated and things open back up, returning to whatever our new lives are could feel scary or anxiety-inducing. This episode invites you to check in with how you want to re-enter the post-vaccine life in a way that’s supportive and aligned for you and what you want and need.

102 | Healing your Multiracial Inner Child with Farzana Nayani

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Being a mixed race can bring with it a wide range of experiences, cultures and microaggressions, all that can start at a young age. As mixed race people grow up, looking back and processing and working through the experiences when we were children can be incredibly healing and formative to our identities. Farzana Nayani talks about why it’s important to look at this and how mixed race people can start to give some love and attention to our inner mixed kid.

101 | Finding and Going at your Own Pace

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Moving towards living your own definition of health and wellness can be a lot easier to do when you’re going at your own pace. So often, our societies push us to move faster and faster to keep up with the never ending newness in this interconnected world, and that may not actually work for everyone. This episode talks about how you can find, go at, and honor the pace that works best for you.

100 | Disordered Eating Recovery as a Person of Color with Kimmie Singh

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Working through disordered eating and eating disorders can be a lot to navigate and potentially adding navigating racial microaggressions can be even more overwhelming. There are many layers and nuances to working through your relationship with food as a person of color that may be missing from the majority of the conversation. In this episode, I talk with Kimmie Singh about those layers and nuances of this and how folks of color can find connection with their food and bodies.

99 | How Diet Culture Effs with Our Relationship with Food

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Diet culture can cast a wide and sticky net in someone’s life and push them to live a word hyperfocused on getting thin at whatever cost. This episode dives deep into how “good” and “bad” foods and the food lists diet culture thrives on are harmful, especially for people of color who have rich food cultures.

98 | Moving Towards Sex Positivity with Jayda Shuavarnnasri

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Sex positivity has become something that’s gotten a lot more attention in the past few years, but what does it mean, especially for folks of color? I invited sex positive Asian auntie Jayda Shuavarnnasri on the show to talk about this with me and unpack the things we all didn’t learn about sexuality, our bodies and how our sensuality is our birthright.

97 | Seeing and Letting Go of What You’re Carrying

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Whether we realize it or not, we’re all carrying ideas, beliefs, and ways we live our lives based on our identities, experiences, how we were raised, and more. While some of these things can be helpful or fine, others can be out of alignment with who we truly are and take up too much mental and emotional energy. As the past year has led to a lot of folks reflecting on what hasn’t been working in society, let’s get curious on what we’re carrying and what we can let go of in order to live a more align

96 | What’s Next for the Podcast and More

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The Small Steps Podcast is back! Listen in to see what’s changing in the podcast, my nutrition business and where you can hear the most up to date information about the changes ahead.

95 | Redefining your Health, Wellness and Life with Shohreh Davoodi

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We all have moments where we feel it’s time for a change. Whether you can fully see things are out of alignment for you based on your values or you just know that something’s not working anymore. It can be scary (and totally normal!) to figure out where to go next, especially when it’s moving away from things you’ve done or believed for years. In this episode, I talk with Shohreh Davoodi about her evolution in her life, career and views on health and how she redefined her life as she evolved and shi

94 | Ways to “Do the Work”: Sharing and Taking Action

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Learning about social justice and understanding the systems of oppression that affect us is extremely important. And it’s just as important to take action on what you’ve learned or in light of what you’ve learned to bring about changing the systems to create something new. This episode covers how to figure out where to share what you’re learning and how to take action on what you’re learning. This is part five of five in a social-justice focused series.

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About Farzana Nayani

Farzana Nayani (she/her) is a recognized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion specialist, coach, and speaker for over 20 years. She has contributed curriculum and program design for the Smithsonian and the East-West Center and has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Parents, NPR, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Farzana is Filipina and Pakistani and is the parent of two multiracial sons and has written the book, Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World. She founded the multiracial community on Instagram called @multiracialmatters.

Small Steps in the Show:

Take moments to pause and reflect on who you really want to be, how you want to show up and what is comfortable for you.
Notice how your identity changes, when it changes and why it changes.
Allow for your identity to shift and change without guilt or shame.
Remember that other people in your life are on their own journey and understandings around identity.
Have patience and grace in yourself or with other folks in your life.
Find opportunities for young people in your life to embrace many parts of their identities.
Find multiracial communities locally and online to get support.
Check out Farzana’s book for other resources to find other mixed communities and people.