Ep. 31 | What Happens to Us When History, Culture, and Identity Are Under Attack

Some of you have been walking around exhausted, sad, anxious, and you cannot point to one event that explains it. There is a reason. We are living in a season where history is being rewritten, culture is being attacked, and identity is being treated as a political problem to manage instead of a human reality to honor. And whether or not you talk about it at dinner, your nervous system is paying attention. Your body is keeping the record.In Episode 31 of The Aya Way™ Podcast, Dr. Malaika Brown puts words on the weight so many of us have been carrying quietly, and offers language, framework, and practice for staying rooted when the soil itself is under attack.In this episode, Dr. Malaika walks you through:•       Minority stress, and what the constant labor of vigilance, translation, and proof actually costs the body•       Grief in slow motion, and why the exhaustion you are feeling is data, not weakness•       The Name: why saying your name fully, the way your mother says it, is sacred resistance•       The Voice: speaking from a rooted body instead of a burned-out one, and curating the voices you let into your ears•       The Disruption: the Three R’s of Rooted Disruption, Reality, Refuge, Resistance, a daily rhythm for a shifting seasonYou are not the problem. The hostility is the problem. And your survival inside the hostility is sacred.This is not an episode about politics. This is an episode about people. This is about us.🎧 New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe, review, and share with someone who has been quietly worn down by the air we are breathing.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/29L2qwPbBikR95v2BAAr6cApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aya-way-with-dr-malaika/id1838551749YouTube: https://youtube.com/@theayawayStay connected∙ Substack: https://theayaway.substack.com∙ SpeakPipe voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheAyaWayGet the Book: Rooted in Resilience: A Journey to Collective Healing