Dr. Rosales Meza is an intuitive, energy worker, healer, and coach. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and is a Reiki Master. She comes from a long line of healers and has 19+ years experience in researching Xicanx/Latinx psychology, counseling, and teaching anti-oppressive work as a Psychology Professor. She has helped hundreds of women of colour on their spiritual journey of decolonisation. Her values lie in anti-oppressive, decolonial, liberation work and in collective healing.
Dr Rosales Meza has such a gentle delivery but her words are strong and powerful. She speaks about how motherhood began her healing and liberation and talks about the ways we can truly begin to consciously decolonise our own minds and lives. There are so many gems in this oneI know you will gain a lot from listening.
Themes:
- The systems are making us unwell. I always educate folks to let them know you know, don’t blame yourself for the ways that that you have survived the system.
- It was that that year of pregnancy and giving birth to my child, that, a whole new awareness and consciousness opened up to me.
- Motherhood gave me the courage to finally say no.
- Especially, as an infant, and as a toddler, that flexibility of time is so important, because it helps the mother, it helps me be more at peace, and it helps my child develop
- Even the institution of time as we know it right now is also this colonial capitalist system. And so that is something that on a day to day basis I don’t participate in.
- The concept of control right is something that I that I don’t practice in my home.
- We have been taught to tolerate abuse, you know, we have been taught to, to trust an authority and external source over what we intuitively know. And so it’s really restoring dignity to ourselves as humans as spirits, and doing that with our children.
- Your liberation is going to be different than my liberation and it doesn’t make it any less.
- Mommy respects you. You as a child are not any less than an adult. How you feel matters.
- We had to control our children in that way. And we learned that control that authority from the coloniser, you know, and what was done to our ancestors, you know, what was done to them they did to their children to protect them from the coloniser.
- Because of that colonial mentality, we parent from fear and love, you know, and so in in the ways that I’m parenting my child, what ways is that from fear?
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Nehanda xx
“We have been taught to tolerate abuse, you know, we have been taught to, to trust an authority and external source over what we intuitively know. And so it’s really restoring dignity to ourselves as humans as spirits, and doing that with our children.”
Dr Rosales Meza