S4E06 Deconditioning, Decolonizing, and Unbecoming

Today I want to share with you my thoughts on decolonizing, deconditioning and unbecoming. This topic of unbecoming and decolonizing ties nicely into my life right now, as I am leaving my therapy practice behind and stepping into the next chapter of my life. I am decolonizing colonial thoughts about having to stick to one career and putting education above all else 

To me, deconditioning and decolonizing are very similar and in that process is also a practice of unbecoming. As we're doing our decolonizing work and as we're deconditioning, we're also unraveling everything that society has told us that we should be or that we need to be. We’re unbecoming everything that is not authentically us so that we can step into who we came here to be and who we are when we are not following societal expectations. That's what the process of unbecoming is.  

 

In today’s episode, we cover: 

• The Trojan horse approach to dismantling supremacy culture 
• Defining decolonizing, deconditioning and unbecoming 
• Healing the collective by doing inner work first 
• How to give yourself grace in this process 
• Perfection is not required  

 

Quotes  

[00:24:22] each and every single one of us has a responsibility to do this inner work of decolonizing, deconditioning, dismantling, demolishing all of this internalized colonialism, the internalized supremacy, the internalized oppression. Each and every single one of us has a responsibility no matter what the color of your skin, because we live in these systems, and each of us has been impacted by it. 

[00:26:23] We're building the new world as we're still living in the old one. So we're constructing from the ruins of what we're deconstructing.  

[00:29:17] You're a human and I'm a human. And we're just trying to do this wild thing called life together, we're all working towards the same, common-shared goal.  

[00:29:38]  We're not perfect, our perfection is not required. It's our progress that we must be making and how we're showing up. 

 

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