Healing Through Community Care with Community Midwife Jollina Walker

Healing Through Intentional Endings - Season 1 Finale

This final episode of Season One is a love letter to the journey. I started this podcast thinking I was simply documenting my healing in real time, but what unfolded was deeper than I expected. Through every conversation, every moment of reflection, I’ve been peeling back layers, letting go of old versions of myself, and learning how to soften without losing my strength. In this episode, I’m sharing what this season taught me about burnout, survival mode, and the pressure to keep pushing. I talk about how I’ve spent years choosing hard paths just to prove I could handle them, and how I’m now choosing ease on purpose. I share what it means to take off the cape, stop performing strength, and finally make space for joy, rest, creativity, and alignment. This isn’t the end of Healing in Progress. It’s an intentional pause. A moment to integrate, reflect, and move forward without rushing. I invite you to reflect on your own journey. What are you ready to release? What kind of life are you ready to receive? Because healing doesn’t stop here. It just finds new ways to unfold. Thank you for growing with me. Thank you for listening. I’ll see you next season.

Healing Through Food, Family, and Partnership with The Edible Bunch

This week’s episode is a little different—in the best way. It’s a couples conversation with me, Sharique, and our good friends Valencia and Myles from The Edible Bunch. We’ve been trying to sit down with them for a while, and life finally made space. We talk about what it really looks like to heal while you're building—your business, your relationship, your family, and yourself. From late-night recipe testing to balancing burnout, this episode is full of laughter, love, and lessons from the kitchen and beyond. Valencia shares how she channels creativity through food, Myles opens up about unlearning what rest looks like for Black men, and together we explore the beauty and messiness of partnership when you’re both driven, tired, and still showing up for each other. Whether you’re navigating love, business, parenting, or all of the above—this one’s for you. Tap in, laugh with us, and remember: healing starts when you stop pretending you don’t need it.

Healing Through Activism with Desiree Smith

In this powerful episode of Healing in Progress, Jazmine sits down with community organizer, youth leader, and founder of More Than a Hashtag, Desiree Smith. Desiree opens up about the raw, honest truths of doing abolitionist work in Las Vegas—from organizing during the George Floyd uprisings at just 19 years old to navigating burnout, grief, and the complexities of community care. Together, they explore what it means to create alternatives to harmful systems, the emotional toll of leading with heart, and how healing and justice must go hand in hand. Desiree shares her evolving relationship with boundaries, rest, and what it looks like to show up for herself while holding space for others. She also reflects on the deep personal losses that have shaped her work and her unwavering hope for a better world led by the next generation. This episode is a reminder that healing is not a destination—it’s a practice. And those leading the charge deserve to be held, supported, and seen, too.

Healing Through Community Care with Community Midwife Jollina Walker

In this episode of Healing in Progress, Jazmine is joined by midwife, lactation consultant, and fierce advocate for birth justice, Jollina Walker. This is not just a conversation about babies—it’s about healing. Healing our relationship to our bodies, to care, to community, and to ourselves. Jollina shares her journey as a birth worker and educator, and how she’s helping others reclaim their power by centering cultural wisdom and informed choice. Together they talk about the trauma that lives in medical systems, the emotional and spiritual toll of caregiving, and the ways Black and Brown birthing people are rising to shift the narrative. This episode is an offering for anyone who’s ever poured from an empty cup. For those who care deeply and need space to rest. For those walking with purpose but learning how to set boundaries with grace. Healing begins with remembering we are not meant to do this alone. You are worthy of care too. Let this episode remind you.

Healing Through Our Hair with Angelina Lanae of Bllack Hair Shop

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Healing in Progress, Jazmine sits down with her hairstylist and soul sister, Angelina Lanae—founder of Black Hair Shop and co-owner of Ombodhi Village—to explore the sacred connection between Black hair and healing. What begins as a conversation about styles and self-expression quickly unravels into a tender and affirming dialogue on identity, trauma, transformation, and spiritual growth. Together, they unpack how our hair often mirrors our internal shifts, the ancestral roots of Black beauty standards, and how healing can begin in the stylist’s chair. From childhood hair trauma to the empowerment of embracing natural textures, this episode is a love letter to the Black hair journey and the women who help us feel like ourselves again. Whether you’re rocking a silk press, in your “ugly stage” of locs, or somewhere in between—this one will remind you that your hair is not just a look, it’s a language. Take a breath. Take a seat. Let’s talk about it. 🌀 Follow Angelina at @bllack.hair.shop [https://www.instagram.com/bllack.hair.shop?igsh=MTc4dXphMXdyYTZmZg==] 📍 Interested in her healing workshops? Tap into @groundedoasis [https://www.instagram.com/grounding_oasis?igsh=YjFnd3BrZXc1aDMy]