The Self-Care Creature Podcast | Season 2, Episode 007| Be Not Of The Oppression

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Welcome to season 2 of the podcast where we are having candid conversations. Open, honest, vulnerable conversations from people, Friends, and clients that I admire. Our intention here is to educate and empower you! These episodes are unscripted, recorded live, and in this episode I'm diving in with my guest Dr. Tee Williams, social justice educator. We discuss frame-bending and frame-busting experiences, how patterns hijack rational thinking, and Dr. Tee's journey of continual self-discovery through the social justice lens.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:​

• Who is Dr. Tee, and how do we know each other
• What one thing I learned in Dr. Tee’s class that shifted my perspective
• How Dr. Tee got onto the liberation framework path
• Dr. Tee’s eye-opening journey at Gonzaga University, and the one professor who altered his perceptions
• Frame-bending and frame-busting experiences, and the low bar of being a “nice guy”
• The most transformational weekend in Dr. Tee’s educational journey
• Men’s Resources International and its effects on positive masculinity teachings
• The teachers who left the greatest impression on Dr. Tee
• The infiltration of social justice teachings into society, and how different frameworks conflict with some of what’s unfolding in our current timeline
• How Critical Liberation Theory and Critical Liberation Frameworks came to fruition
• Dr. Tee’s strong matriarchal upbringing and the strong women who influenced him in his social justice journey
• How patterns hijack rational thinking
• What identifying as queer means to me, and why clarifying my identity in Dr. Tee’s class was a learning moment for him
• Being in the oppression and not of the oppression, and being willing to admit when you’re wrong and open to correction
• The umbrella term of “queer”, and the ramifications of dating while identifying as a queer woman
• Why joy is different from happiness, and how it is a necessary tool for survival of oppression
• A mind-altering thought experiment on my lifelong pursuit of happiness
• Why healing looks different for everyone and can take different pathways depending on where your attention is oriented
• What “letting go” looks like
• Defining your values and using them for alignment
• What it means to take responsibility for your learning

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