This episode focuses on the ways to overcome childhood trauma in the black community. Despite it being a very uncomfortable and touchy subject, it is important to talk about. My guest, Fatima Oliver, author of the book "The Prescription is in the Dirt" and life coach, helping black women deal with childhood trauma, discussed how she herself has been able to overcome her own personal traumatic events in her life, how counseling has helped her and most importantly, how making the ultimate choice to save her own life for the sake of herself and her children and in doing so, getting to the place where she let go of the people who hindered her growth, which we all know to be a very difficult thing.

Fatima spoke about how she was on the brink of taking her own life, not knowing how or when she would snap or react irrationally, and how it was for her to make a choice to prioritize her mental and spiritual health. She also speak to me about how hard it was to let go of certain people in her life because of the family dynamic she shares with them. We talked about how as adults and parents in our own right, how hard it is to navigate through life dealing with unresolved issues and how sometimes we don't know whether they're resolved until something triggers a nerve within us. 

In prioritizing our mental health, we have to keep in mind that those who were responsible for the physical, mental, and emotional damage to us won't always own up to it or even apologize for it, but it is our responsibility to seek the professional help we need to forgive those who took our innocence and youthfulness away from us in order to move forward in our lives to be our best selves. A special thanks to my guest, Fatima Oliver, for being on this show to share what has worked for her, how she is helping black women with her efforts to guide them onto a path to becoming more than their traumatic circumstances. 

In order to move forward, we have to let go of the past. We are not responsible for our trauma as kids, but we are responsible for our healing as adults.