Episode 411
Grounding Your Authentic Self
w/Kaitlin Smith
The purpose of CelesteTheTherapist is to help shift the way you think. Many times, we get stuck in a negative cycle and struggle with getting out. Celeste will interview guests from different backgrounds who empower people in different capacities.
In this episode, Celeste The Therapist and Kaitlin Smith, PhD student, psychotherapist, and Founder of “Our Wild Minds”, discuss healing and transformation amid oppression as motivated by experiences as a person of color. The discussion tackles giftedness as manifested by multiple intelligences and how there is a natural need to utilize these gifts, as well as the journey of understanding ourselves mentally and emotionally.
We may often face notions and conceptions of how things should be, but it is equally important to apply things in the rightful context. This episode will help you realize that to discover your potential, you must first know your authentic self. Tune in and subscribe to know more.
Learn about Kaitlin Smith :
Kaitlin Smith, MSW is a Boston-based scholar and former psychotherapist passionate about disrupting the forces that dispossess us of our own expansive consciousness and authentic sense of belonging. She is the founder of Our Wild Minds which offers live, online courses that help gifted BIPOC and women befriend and operationalize their natural gifts.
Kaitlin is a PhD student at Harvard in History of Science where her research critically interrogates some of the conceptual foundations of modern psychology and some of its unelaborated connections to core themes in African American Studies. This research agenda is informed by past training and work as a psychotherapist at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and in other settings, as well as continuing education in critical paradigms that complement prevailing psychodynamic and behavioral approaches (e.g., gifted psychology and ecopsychology).
For more information about Kaitlin's work, visit KaitlinSmith.net.
Twitter: @kaitlinsm1th
Instagram: @our.wildminds
Website: OurWildMinds.com
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