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📘 Episode Description:
In this powerful episode of The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha, host Guided by Jasmine tackles a question she's been asked time and time again:
“How can you be a lesbian and a mother at the same time?”

With honesty, humor, and spiritual depth, Jasmine opens up about the judgment she’s faced from both inside and outside the LGBTQ+ community, the rejection she experienced within the church, and the complexity of raising children in a world that often refuses to make space for the fullness of her identity.

She shares how her queerness shaped her motherhood, how religion tried to silence her calling, and how she fought — and continues to fight — to reclaim every part of herself.

This episode is a love letter to anyone who's ever been told they couldn’t be both. Jasmine is here to say: you already are.

✨ Guided Meditation (Starts around [insert timestamp]):
A 4-minute practice to help listeners release shame, reclaim their wholeness, and affirm the sacredness of being “both.”
“I am enough. I am whole. I am both.”

📚 Lessons Learned:

• Being queer and being a mother are not in conflict — they are in communion.
• Rejection doesn’t define you; it redirects you back to your truth.
• You don’t have to choose between the parts of you.
• A calling doesn’t need church walls to be holy.
• Acceptance starts from within — and radiates outward.

🎧 Listen if you’re ready to:

• Challenge the stereotypes around queer parenting
• Reclaim your truth outside the walls of religion
• Break generational cycles with love and honesty
• Be reminded that you are already enough

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📌 Episode Summary:
In the final installment of Buried Truths: My Father, His Death, and My Healing, I sit with the raw aftermath of my father’s funeral—and the waves of pain that kept crashing long after the casket closed. From facing one of my childhood perpetrators again… to being hit with a possible cancer diagnosis… to watching the dysfunction in my family reemerge right after laying my father to rest—this wasn’t closure. It was confrontation.

This diary entry is messy. Vulnerable. Raging. And sacred.
It’s a mirror for anyone who’s ever tried to grieve while surviving.

✨ Guided Meditation: “I Am the Medicine”
I also include a gentle, 3-minute meditation to ground yourself after listening. It’s a reminder that you’re not broken—you’re becoming.

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💎 Lessons Learned:

• Perpetrators thrive in silence—I won't be silent anymore.
• Apologies aren’t the same as accountability.
• Boundaries are sacred, especially in grief.
• Sometimes healing means walking away—even from family.
• Protect your peace like your life depends on it. Because sometimes, it does.

🖤 If this episode moved you:
Please share it with someone who’s healing from layered grief, betrayal, or family trauma. You never know whose healing you might spark.

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📌 Episode Summary:
I thought I was ready. I thought I had it together. But when the casket closed, so did the lid on a lifetime of suppressed emotions.

In this raw, final walk-through of my father’s funeral, burial, and repass, I open up about grieving in the presence of fake smiles, old predators, and a family name wrapped in complicated love.

From social anxiety to sacred boundaries, this episode is about more than death—it’s about telling the truth, even when no one wants to hear it. And it’s about learning how to release pain without needing permission.

If you've ever buried someone physically while still holding emotional weight, this one’s for you.

Guided Meditation (3–4 min):
✨ “I’m Still Here” – A short grounding practice for those who’ve carried grief and rage in the same breath. Find your center and reclaim your peace.

Access is inside the episode.

Lessons Learned:
🖤 Closure doesn’t always come clean—it’s messy and rarely linear.
🖤 You are not obligated to grieve politely.
🖤 You can feel proud and pissed at the same time.
🖤 Protect your peace—especially in sacred moments.
🖤 Say what needs to be said, even if it’s not received.
🖤 Release the fantasy. Accept what was. Choose what’s next.

✨ If this episode speaks to your soul, share it. Text it to someone navigating their own messy grief.

Don't Miss Next Week's Episode: It is the FINAL episode to this mini-series where Jasmine pulls back the curtain on what healing looks like after the funeral, after the court dates, and after the calls stop coming in. In this raw and reflective episode, she shares how she’s learning to hold both grief and growth—at the same time.

From EMDR sessions and doctor visits to spiritual coaching, journaling, and reclaiming her voice, Jasmine invites listeners into her real-time journey of rebuilding.

This isn’t about closure—it’s about continuation.

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “How do I keep going when everything around me says stop?”—this is the episode to hear.