I'm excited to share this podcast conversation with one of my dearest friends Akilah Riley-Richardson. Akilah has been in clinical practice for 16 years, is based in Trinidad and Tobago, and specializes in work with sexual and racial minorities. In this conversation, Akilah and I talk about relational privilege and the impact historical and race based trauma has on relationships. Akilah teaches to pivot, rumble and imagine to help gain a sense of where the hurt is, what the body needs, and how these needs connect back to the behaviors expressed is relationship…and what is needed now. And we rumble with the politics of interest, the impact of feeling that your experiences in the world matter (or don’t) within intimate relational spaces.
Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP, RLT, is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, a Brainspotting Therapist and a Certified Relational Life Therapist and Facilitator. She has received training in various areas including Somatic Experiencing, Playback Theatre, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Neuroscience, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Akilah strives for: Authenticity, Alignment, Attunement and Abundance. She is a woman who knows both joy and pain in her personal life. She knows to treat all emotions with the dignity they deserve. Akilah is a mother, partner, researcher, social worker, advocate, educator, facilitator, therapist, and person. She brings all of who she is to the spaces that she serves.
RESOURCES:
Find Akilah online at akilahrileyrichardson.com, and dive in even deeper to learn more with Akilah in her Academy of Therapy Wisdom course Relational Privilege and Systemic Trauma: Confronting Race and Sex Discrimination in Couples Work, catch a replay of the free promotional webinar here.
a few of the resources mentioned in this episode:
Resmaa Menakem
Shawn A. Ginwright’s The Four Pivots
adrienne maree brown’s concept of radical imagination (see this poem)
If you want to dive in deeper with Rebecca, consider joining our Relationship Bootcamp or exploring her offerings to deepen your relational skills and expand your self-care. Learn more at connectfulness.com
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