Chronicles Of A Black Lesbian Mom

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the betrayal isn't the most painful part?What happens when you realize the person who ignored your intuition, dismissed your red flags, and talked you out of your own discernment... was you?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine opens her journal and shares the story of a friendship, leadership partnership, and painful awakening that unfolded inside the community she built, Lesbian Lounge for Women of Color.What began as shared vision, shared leadership, and what Jasmine believed was a genuine friendship slowly evolved into one of the hardest lessons she has learned about boundaries, discernment, self-trust, and the cost of abandoning yourself to preserve a connection.Through honest reflection, Jasmine explores the warning signs she ignored, the complicated emotions that arose when friendship became blurred by romantic feelings, and the heartbreak of discovering that someone she trusted may have been studying her more than supporting her.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone who has ever looked back on a painful situation and realized:"I knew something was off... and I stayed anyway."🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation"Returning Back to Yourself"This gentle guided meditation is for anyone healing from friendship betrayal, disappointment, broken trust, or the lingering ache of ignoring their own inner knowing.Through breathwork, reflection, and affirmations, Jasmine helps listeners release the need for external closure and reconnect with the wisdom that has always lived within them.Because sometimes healing isn't about understanding why someone else did what they did.Sometimes healing is about returning home to yourself.No judgment.No shame.No self-punishment.Just compassion.Just awareness.Just self-trust.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter sitting with this experience and reflecting on her role within it, Jasmine shares the lessons that emerged from the pain:✨ Compassion without discernment can become self-abandonment.✨ Not everyone who has access to your vision is assigned to your purpose.✨ Emotional closeness does not automatically equal emotional safety.✨ Boundaries are not punishment; they are protection.✨ Intuition whispers long before betrayal screams.✨ People can imitate your ideas, but they cannot duplicate your spirit.These aren't just lessons from a friendship gone wrong.They're reminders for anyone learning how to trust themselves again after disappointment.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode spoke to your spirit, don't keep it to yourself.🎧 Share it with someone who may be struggling to trust their intuition.💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and tell me which lesson resonated most with you.⭐ And if you feel led, leave a review — your words help this healing reach more hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, healing reflections, guided meditations, and honest conversations from Jasmine's personal journey.New episodes drop weekly — every Tuesday @ 10am MST.Find me on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, journals, events, and ways to continue your healing journey.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when someone shows up for you consistently…but your spirit still quietly says, “This is not aligned”?What happens when emotional safety starts feeling so good…that you slowly begin negotiating against your own intuition just to keep the connection alive?What happens when you realize the deepest betrayal wasn’t what another person did…but the ways you slowly stopped trusting yourself?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine reflects on the emotional complexity of trying to maintain a friendship with someone she originally met as a romantic interest — despite knowing early on that the connection was not aligned for her.As the relationship evolved, Jasmine opens up about the loneliness, emotional attachment, confusion, self-betrayal, and vulnerability she experienced while trying to force a friendship that her intuition had already warned her about.She vulnerably shares:✨ realizing within days that the connection lacked the emotional and intellectual depth she deeply desired✨ why she created a personal boundary around not staying friends with former love interests✨ how someone consistently showing up for her emotionally made her question her own instincts✨ the emotional impact of rarely feeling supported or emotionally chosen throughout her life✨ how childhood experiences around friendship and belonging influenced her decision to keep trying✨ noticing subtle interference and emotional tension around her other friendships and romantic connections✨ the painful realization that the first boundary she abandoned… was trusting herself✨ learning the difference between consistency and compatibility✨ understanding that someone can genuinely care about you… and still not belong in your life in the way they want toThis episode is not about blaming, shaming, or villainizing anyone.It’s about emotional honesty.It’s about recognizing what happens when loneliness, emotional safety, and the desire for connection cause us to override what our spirit already knows.It’s about understanding that sometimes the hardest relationships to walk away from…are the ones that give us something emotionally rare.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone navigating:emotional boundaries,intuition,friendship after romance,loneliness,attachment,emotional confusion,self-trust,relationship red flags,feeling emotionally seen,healing from self-betrayal,or learning how to stop negotiating against themselves just to preserve connection.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“Trusting Yourself Again”This gentle 3–5 minute guided meditation invites listeners to slow down, breathe deeply, reconnect with their intuition, and release the guilt of choosing themselves after emotionally confusing relationships.Through grounding breathwork, compassionate reflection, and calming affirmations, Jasmine guides listeners through emotional healing connected to:people-pleasing,loneliness,emotional attachment,boundary erosion,intuition,and rebuilding trust with their own inner voice.This meditation creates space to breathe through:confusion,disappointment,emotional exhaustion,loneliness,and the grief that sometimes comes from realizing you abandoned yourself trying to keep a connection alive.Whether you are healing from a friendship, romantic relationship, emotional attachment, or simply learning to trust yourself again, this meditation offers a moment of softness, clarity, compassion, and emotional grounding.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter reflecting on this experience, Jasmine shares the lessons this season of healing revealed:✨ The first boundary we often abandon… is ourselves.✨ Consistency and compatibility are not the same thing.✨ Emotional safety can sometimes make us ignore emotional misalignment.✨ Loneliness can cause people to negotiate with things they normally wouldn’t.✨ Someone can genuinely care about you… and still not be aligned for your life.✨ Boundaries are not punishment — sometimes they are self-protection.✨ Being emotionally seen can feel intoxicating when it has been rare in your life.✨ Healing sometimes means trusting yourself sooner next time.These reflections are not about bitterness.They are about awareness, accountability, healing, emotional honesty, self-trust, and learning how to stop abandoning yourself in the name of connection.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode touched something in you, don’t sit with it alone.🎧 Share this episode with someone navigating emotional boundaries, loneliness, healing, or difficult relationship dynamics.💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and share what part resonated most with you.⭐ Leave a review if this episode made you feel seen — your support helps these healing conversations reach more people.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, guided meditations, emotional healing, and honest reflections on motherhood, identity, grief, relationships, boundaries, healing, and becoming.New episodes drop weekly.Follow Jasmine on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, reflections, and healing-centered community experiences.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when graduation season stops feeling like celebration… and starts feeling like reflection?What happens when your child doesn’t walk across the stage… and you’re left wondering whether they see themselves as a failure?What happens when you realize your child’s struggles may have been rooted in pain you didn’t fully understand at the time?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine reflects on the emotional complexity of parenting a child who dropped out of high school, while also confronting the ways her own inner child, fears, expectations, and experiences shaped how she responded as a mother.As graduation season unfolds, Jasmine opens up about the guilt, anger, confusion, grief, disappointment, and love she carried while watching one of her five children struggle emotionally during his teenage years.She vulnerably shares: her own experience attending three different alternative high schools while trying not to disappoint her parents  the pain of watching her son emotionally unravel while trying to survive adolescence  how father rejection deeply impacted her son’s self-worth  the heartbreaking realization that she was sometimes offering pressure when her son actually needed comfort  how watching her son struggle brought her face-to-face with her own unhealed inner child  learning to separate her child’s worth from achievement, milestones, and traditional success This episode is not about glorifying dropping out of school. It’s about seeing the humanity underneath the struggle.It’s about understanding that some children are not “bad”… they are hurting.And sometimes survival becomes the real graduation.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone navigating: motherhood, parenting struggling teens, inner child healing, graduation season grief, father wounds, alternative education, emotional pain in boys, self-worth, or the quiet heartbreak of watching someone you love struggle to find themselves.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“More Than the Hardest Chapter”This gentle 2–3 minute guided meditation invites listeners to pause, breathe, soften, and release the pressure of perfection during graduation season.Through grounding breathwork, compassionate reflection, and calming affirmations, Jasmine guides listeners through emotional healing connected to parenting, disappointment, shame, inner child wounds, and unconditional love.This meditation creates space to breathe through: grief, guilt, unfinished chapters, and the emotional weight of loving someone through difficult seasons.Whether you are a parent, a former dropout, or someone still healing from the pressure to prove your worth through achievement, this meditation offers a moment of compassion, softness, and emotional grace.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter reflecting on this season of motherhood and healing, Jasmine shares the lessons this experience revealed:✨ Sometimes behavior is unresolved pain wearing a mask. ✨ Sensitive children often get labeled before they are understood. ✨ Expectations can sometimes come from fear, not just love. ✨ Some children need comfort before they can receive correction. ✨ A missed milestone does not erase a person’s worth. ✨ Parents can grieve their expectations while still deeply loving their child. ✨ Watching our children struggle can reveal the wounds still living inside of us. ✨ Some people graduate with caps and gowns… and some graduate through survival, heartbreak, healing, and growth.These reflections are not about shame. They are about compassion, awareness, healing, grace, and understanding.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode touched something in you, don’t sit with it alone.🎧 Share this episode with someone navigating parenthood, healing, or difficult family seasons. 💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and share what part resonated most with you. ⭐ Leave a review if this episode made you feel seen — your support helps these healing conversations reach more people.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, guided meditations, emotional healing, and honest reflections on motherhood, identity, grief, healing, relationships, and becoming.New episodes drop weekly.Follow Jasmine on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, reflections, and healing-centered community experiences.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when Mother’s Day stops feeling like celebration… and starts feeling like reflection?What happens when you realize your children may remember not only the ways you loved them… but also the ways they were hurt by you?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine opens up about the complicated layers of motherhood, generational pain, healing, guilt, resentment, accountability, and the emotional weight of trying to parent while still healing yourself.After a painful conversation with her son during a trip to urgent care, Jasmine is forced to sit with the heartbreaking reality that her son feels abandoned by her — even though her intentions were never to harm him. What unfolds is an honest reflection about motherhood, estranged parent-child relationships, self-preservation, emotional exhaustion, and the uncomfortable truth that love and pain can exist in the same relationship at the same time.Jasmine also shares how her own mother’s recent apology reopened old wounds, stirred confusion, and revealed just how deeply generational pain can echo through families — even when everyone involved is trying to heal.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone navigating: motherhood, daughter wounds, adult children, forgiveness, self-healing, or the quiet grief of realizing that healing does not erase emotional complexity.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“Mothering Yourself Too”This gentle 3-minute guided meditation invites you to pause, breathe, and release the pressure to be perfect.Through calming breathwork, grounding affirmations, and compassionate reflection, Jasmine guides listeners through the emotional layers of motherhood, inner child healing, guilt, and self-forgiveness.Whether you are healing as a mother, daughter, or simply as a woman trying to hold everything together, this meditation offers a moment of softness, honesty, and emotional grace.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter reflecting on this Mother’s Day experience, Jasmine shares the lessons this season revealed:✨ Healing changes what joy looks like. ✨ Solitude and loneliness are not always the same thing. ✨ You cannot control someone else’s healing journey. ✨ Love does not erase emotional impact. ✨ Motherhood is not perfection — it’s responsibility. ✨ Unhealed pain can quietly travel through generations. ✨ Two things can be true at the same time. ✨ Healing is becoming honest, not perfect.These reflections are not about shame. They are about accountability, awareness, grace, and growth.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode touched something in you, don’t sit with it alone.🎧 Share this episode with someone navigating motherhood, healing, or complicated family relationships. 💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and tell me what part resonated most. ⭐ Leave a review if this conversation helped you feel seen — your support helps these healing conversations reach more people.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, guided meditations, emotional healing, and honest conversations about motherhood, identity, grief, healing, and becoming.New episodes drop weekly.Follow Jasmine on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, reflections, and healing-centered community experiences.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when pain stops being something you manage… and becomes something you finally refuse?What happens when you realize you’ve been adjusting your entire life around suffering instead of asking for relief?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine returns after a season of illness, reflection, and hard decisions. She opens up about living with chronic pain, nonstop bleeding, and the quiet ways it taught her to doubt herself, shrink her boundaries, and tolerate what was never meant to be normal. From hospital rooms and fear to clarity and courage, Jasmine shares how choosing a hysterectomy became the moment she stopped betraying herself and started choosing her body, her peace, and her future.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone who has learned to survive instead of live — and is ready to choose themselves.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“I Stop Betraying Myself”This 2–3 minute guided meditation invites you to slow down, breathe, and listen to your body with compassion. Jasmine gently leads you through breathwork and affirmations to help you release the habit of pushing through pain and reconnect with your inner truth.Whether you’re healing physically, emotionally, or spiritually, this meditation offers a moment of safety, softness, and self-loyalty — reminding you that your body is not your enemy… it’s your guide.No forcing. No bracing. Just presence. Just listening.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter choosing herself in the deepest way, Jasmine shares the insights this journey revealed:✨ Pain is not a personality trait — it’s a message. ✨ You don’t have to keep surviving what you’re allowed to end. ✨ Healing sometimes means letting go of what once defined you. ✨ Listening to your body is an act of self-respect, not weakness. ✨ Where one portal closes, another opens.These aren’t just reflections — they’re reminders that your life does not have to hurt to be meaningful.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode touched something in you, don’t hold it alone.🎧 Share it with someone who needs permission to choose themselves. 💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and tell me what part resonated most. ⭐ Leave a review if you feel called — your words help this healing reach more hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, sacred humor, and soulful self-reflection from Jasmine’s journey.New episodes drop weekly — Tuesdays at 10am MST. Follow me on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, rituals, and community experiences.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail(In Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month)What happens when love turns into blame?When “I love you” starts sounding more like “you made me do this”?In this honest and vulnerable entry, Jasmine opens up about how emotional abuse and gaslighting can quietly unfold in queer relationships — and how easy it is to start carrying someone else’s pain as your own.She shares what it looked like to lose herself trying to save someone who didn’t want healing, the role therapy played in helping her see the truth, and what it really means to stop apologizing for someone else’s behavior.This episode isn’t just about surviving emotional abuse — it’s about reclaiming your voice, your power, and your peace.🧘🏾‍♀️ Guided Meditation: “Forgiving Myself for What I Didn’t Know”A grounded and empowering meditation designed to help you release blame, reclaim your peace, and return to your own energy. Through rhythmic affirmations like “I forgive myself for what I didn’t know” and “I am my own healing,” Jasmine guides you to soften your heart, silence shame, and remember that forgiveness is freedom.📜 Lessons & Reflections:Silence is not peace — it’s survival disguised as stillness.Therapy can’t fix what someone refuses to face.Apologies lose meaning when they become payment for peace.Boundaries are acts of self-love, not punishment.Healing begins when you stop internalizing someone else’s pain and start honoring your own.💫 Call to ActionIf this episode spoke to your spirit, please: 🌿 Follow, comment, like, and share Healing Like a Motha with someone who needs to hear it. 📖 Grab your copy of the Healing Like a Motha Journal to keep writing, reflecting, and rebuilding your peace — one page at a time.Because healing doesn’t end when the episode fades out… it continues every time you choose yourself again.📞 If you or someone you love is experiencing abuse, you are not alone. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 | thehotline.org🎧 Listen. Reflect. Share. And keep healing like a motha.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when love feels like safety, but silence becomes the price?In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Jasmine Peters opens up about surviving emotional and psychological abuse in a queer relationship that looked “perfect” on the outside but left her questioning her own truth. In this deeply personal, diary-style episode of The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha, Jasmine shares what it’s like to lose yourself in someone else’s pain—and the powerful journey of finding your voice again.🎧 Story Focus: Jasmine reflects on how empathy can turn into self-abandonment when love becomes survival. Through raw honesty and vulnerability, she walks listeners through how she mistook silence for peace, compassion for caretaking, and control for connection—until she chose herself again.🧘🏾‍♀️ Guided Meditation: “Reclaiming the Voice Within” — a grounding meditation to help survivors and empathic hearts reconnect to their truth, release guilt, and reclaim their power after emotional or psychological abuse.📜 Lessons & Reflections:Silence isn’t peace; it’s a sign your truth needs space.Your intuition isn’t paranoia—it’s divine discernment.Healing isn’t about moving on; it’s about moving home to yourself.❤️ Call to Action: If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who’s finding their voice again. Follow, comment, and review The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha wherever you listen.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you’re no longer healing from heartbreak — you’re healing into alignment? When you finally stop running from love and start recognizing yourself in it?In this deeply personal, diary-style episode, Jasmine returns with fresh perspective and soft power. She opens up about stepping back into the dating pool after a season of stillness — not to find someone else, but to meet herself again through connection. From laughter and deep conversations to surprising mirrors in love, Jasmine explores how every woman she’s dated has revealed a different piece of her own evolution.This episode is a sacred reflection for anyone learning how to date consciously — from a healed, grounded, and self-aware space.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation “Falling in Love With Yourself Again”This 4-minute guided meditation invites you to pause, breathe, and come home to your heart. Jasmine gently leads you through breathwork and affirmations to help you reconnect with your worth, your tenderness, and your truth.Whether you’re in love, in limbo, or just rediscovering your rhythm, this meditation reminds you that love starts within — and radiates outward.No pressure. No performance. Just stillness. Just self.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter reentering the dating world with intention, Jasmine shares the insights that only experience can teach:✨ Not every connection is meant to last — but every one can teach you. ✨ Self-love gets tested in real-time, not theory. ✨ You don’t lose yourself when you move slower — you find yourself there. ✨ Falling in love with you first changes how you let others love you.This isn’t about collecting partners — it’s about collecting peace. These aren’t just lessons; they’re love notes to your future self — reminders that growth can be gentle and still be powerful.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode spoke to your spirit, don’t keep it to yourself. 🎧 Share it with someone who’s learning to love with more awareness. 💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and tell me what reflection resonated most with you. ⭐ And if you feel led, leave a review — your words help this healing reach more hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more diary-style storytelling, sacred humor, and soulful self-reflection from Jasmine’s personal journey.New episodes drop weekly — every Tuesday @ 10am MST.Find me on Instagram @guidedbyjasmine for upcoming offerings, journals, and events.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail✨ Episode Description:What happens when depression creeps in after the comeback? After the growth? After therapy?In this soul-baring diary-style episode, Jasmine opens up about what it looked like to crash emotionally after doing “all the right things.” From grief and job loss to illness, injustice, and intimate heartbreak, Jasmine shares how everything finally caught up with her—and how she chose to show up anyway.This episode is a sacred space for anyone who’s ever felt ashamed for needing rest after rising.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“Return to Your Enoughness” This 4-minute guided meditation is a soft reset for the soul. Jasmine gently leads you through grounding breathwork and intuitive affirmation, helping you reconnect with your body, your breath, and your worth — especially when you don’t feel like “enough.”Whether you’ve hit a wall, relapsed into old patterns, or just need a quiet moment to remember who you are… this meditation was made for you.No fluff. No fixing. Just presence. Just love.📜 Lessons LearnedAfter crashing post-comeback — despite therapy, growth, and all the “right steps” — Jasmine shares what healing actually looks like behind the scenes:Your body knows when it’s time to pause. Your breakdown doesn’t cancel your breakthrough. Your softness is still sacred. And joy can be as small as a sticker… and still holy.This isn’t about bouncing back. It’s about being honest about the fall— and choosing yourself in the dark anyway.These aren’t just lessons. They’re reminders for anyone navigating the shadows while still holding a vision for their light.💌 Call to ActionIf this episode spoke to your spirit, don’t keep it to yourself. 🎧 Share it with a friend who’s in a crash season. 💬 Tag @guidedbyjasmine and tell me what part landed in your heart. ⭐ And if you feel called, leave a review — your words help this healing reach more ears and more hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay ConnectedSubscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more raw reflections, sacred storytelling, and diary-style healing from Jasmine’s personal journey.New episodes drop weekly — every Tuesday @ 10am MST.You can also find me on Instagram at @guidedbyjasmine future offerings, journals, and upcoming events.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail✨ Episode Description:What happens when healing doesn’t come wrapped in candles, crystals, and calm? When it looks more like job loss, hospital visits, emotional chaos, and pulling yourself off the bathroom floor?In this raw and sovereign birthday reflection, Jasmine shares how her healing journey this past year got ghetto real quick — and how it also delivered her back to her divine assignment. From a misdiagnosed cancer scare to a toxic relationship, the death of her father, and the birth of this very podcast, Jasmine reveals how grief, grief, and sacred reclamation led her back to herself.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation“I Am Ready for My Next Level” This 3–4 minute guided meditation is a soul-centered reset — short enough to meet you in the chaos, powerful enough to shift your energy. Jasmine guides you through grounding breathwork, self-affirmation, and intuitive alignment to help you release what no longer fits and walk boldly into your next level. Perfect for birthdays, new chapters, or any moment you need to come home to yourself.📜 Lessons Learned After a year of sacred disruption — marked by grief, toxic love, job loss, and spiritual awakening — Jasmine reflects on what she now knows for sure:Your intuition is holy. Your peace is sacred. Your healing doesn’t have to look good to be real. And you’re not here to be palatable — you’re here to be powerful.These aren’t just affirmations — they’re soul codes for anyone reclaiming their voice, their body, and their birthright to become.💌 Call to Action:If this episode spoke to your spirit, share it with a friend who needs to hear it. Tag @guidedbyjasmine and let her know what part landed in your heart. And don’t forget to leave a review — your words help this healing reach more ears and hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay Connected:Subscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more real-talk reflections, diary-style healing, and sacred storytelling from Jasmine’s personal journey. New episodes drop weekly (every Tuesday @ 10am MST)Support the show

Send us Fan Mail📝 Episode Description:In this deeply personal episode, Jasmine shares the moment that shattered her illusions — and sparked her awakening. After a terrifying encounter with police involving her son in the midst of a mental health crisis, Jasmine found herself face-to-face with a truth many Black mothers know all too well:No one is coming to save us.What followed was not just a breakdown, but a spiritual breakthrough — one that forced her to stop waiting for a rescue and start choosing herself. With raw honesty and unfiltered emotion, Jasmine unpacks what it means to shift from martyrdom to sovereignty, from surviving for everyone else to living for herself.This episode is for the mothers, the caretakers, the healers, and the strong ones who’ve ever felt like they were drowning in silence. It’s a love letter to those doing the most with the least — and learning to become their own safe place.💬 Guided Meditation:A short, grounding meditation titled “Coming Home to Myself” follows this episode, helping you reconnect to your own power, peace, and self-trust.💭 Lessons Learned:No one is coming to save you — but you don’t need saving. You need you.Children can be a part of your purpose, but not your entire reason for existingSetting boundaries doesn’t mean you don’t love people — it means you’re finally loving yourselfEven in the wreckage, you can still rebuild something sacred💌 Call to Action:If this episode spoke to your spirit, share it with a friend who needs to hear it. Tag @guidedbyjasmine and let her know what part landed in your heart. And don’t forget to leave a review — your words help this healing reach more ears and hearts.🎧 Subscribe & Stay Connected:Subscribe to The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha for more real-talk reflections, diary-style healing, and sacred storytelling from Jasmine’s personal journey. New episodes drop weekly.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail📘 Episode Description: In this powerful episode of The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mom: Healing Like a Motha, host Guided by Jasmine tackles a question she's been asked time and time again: “How can you be a lesbian and a mother at the same time?”With honesty, humor, and spiritual depth, Jasmine opens up about the judgment she’s faced from both inside and outside the LGBTQ+ community, the rejection she experienced within the church, and the complexity of raising children in a world that often refuses to make space for the fullness of her identity.She shares how her queerness shaped her motherhood, how religion tried to silence her calling, and how she fought — and continues to fight — to reclaim every part of herself.This episode is a love letter to anyone who's ever been told they couldn’t be both. Jasmine is here to say: you already are.✨ Guided Meditation (Starts around [insert timestamp]): A 4-minute practice to help listeners release shame, reclaim their wholeness, and affirm the sacredness of being “both.” “I am enough. I am whole. I am both.”📚 Lessons Learned:Being queer and being a mother are not in conflict — they are in communion.Rejection doesn’t define you; it redirects you back to your truth.You don’t have to choose between the parts of you.A calling doesn’t need church walls to be holy.Acceptance starts from within — and radiates outward.🎧 Listen if you’re ready to:Challenge the stereotypes around queer parentingReclaim your truth outside the walls of religionBreak generational cycles with love and honestyBe reminded that you are already enough💌 Call to Action: If this episode blessed you, please: ✔️ Share it with someone navigating identity, motherhood, or spiritual healing ✔️ Leave a review to help this podcast reach more hearts ✔️ Tag @healinglikeamotha on IG or Threads and share your favorite takeaway🎙 Subscribe for more Dear Diary episodes every week — where truth, tenderness, and transformation live side by side.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail📌 Episode Summary:In the final installment of Buried Truths: My Father, His Death, and My Healing, I sit with the raw aftermath of my father’s funeral—and the waves of pain that kept crashing long after the casket closed. From facing one of my childhood perpetrators again… to being hit with a possible cancer diagnosis… to watching the dysfunction in my family reemerge right after laying my father to rest—this wasn’t closure. It was confrontation.This diary entry is messy. Vulnerable. Raging. And sacred. It’s a mirror for anyone who’s ever tried to grieve while surviving.✨ Guided Meditation: “I Am the Medicine”I also include a gentle, 3-minute meditation to ground yourself after listening. It’s a reminder that you’re not broken—you’re becoming.Access is inside the episode.💎 Lessons Learned:Perpetrators thrive in silence—I won't be silent anymore.Apologies aren’t the same as accountability.Boundaries are sacred, especially in grief.Sometimes healing means walking away—even from family.Protect your peace like your life depends on it. Because sometimes, it does.🖤 If this episode moved you:Please share it with someone who’s healing from layered grief, betrayal, or family trauma. You never know whose healing you might spark.📝 Join My Newsletter:Get updates, healing prompts, and future offerings:🎧 New Episodes Drop Every TuesdayAnd don’t forget—you are the medicine. Thank you for holding space for this series.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail📌 Episode Summary: I thought I was ready. I thought I had it together. But when the casket closed, so did the lid on a lifetime of suppressed emotions.In this raw, final walk-through of my father’s funeral, burial, and repass, I open up about grieving in the presence of fake smiles, old predators, and a family name wrapped in complicated love.From social anxiety to sacred boundaries, this episode is about more than death—it’s about telling the truth, even when no one wants to hear it. And it’s about learning how to release pain without needing permission.If you've ever buried someone physically while still holding emotional weight, this one’s for you.Guided Meditation (3–4 min):✨ “I’m Still Here” – A short grounding practice for those who’ve carried grief and rage in the same breath. Find your center and reclaim your peace.Access is inside the episode.Lessons Learned: 🖤 Closure doesn’t always come clean—it’s messy and rarely linear. 🖤 You are not obligated to grieve politely. 🖤 You can feel proud and pissed at the same time. 🖤 Protect your peace—especially in sacred moments. 🖤 Say what needs to be said, even if it’s not received. 🖤 Release the fantasy. Accept what was. Choose what’s next.✨ If this episode speaks to your soul, share it. Text it to someone navigating their own messy grief.Don't Miss Next Week's Episode: It is the FINAL episode to this mini-series where Jasmine pulls back the curtain on what healing looks like after the funeral, after the court dates, and after the calls stop coming in. In this raw and reflective episode, she shares how she’s learning to hold both grief and growth—at the same time.From EMDR sessions and doctor visits to spiritual coaching, journaling, and reclaiming her voice, Jasmine invites listeners into her real-time journey of rebuilding.This isn’t about closure—it’s about continuation.If you’ve ever asked yourself, “How do I keep going when everything around me says stop?”—this is the episode to hear.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail🧠 Episode Summary:What happens when grief and rage arrive together—uninvited and unapologetic?In this raw and unflinching episode, Jasmine walks us through the spiritual and emotional chaos that unfolded during her father’s funeral and viewing. From church betrayals and unspoken family wounds to facing childhood predators in the pews, this episode is a sacred release.She reflects on choosing her father’s final outfit, re-entering a church that once hurt her, and confronting the disrespectful eulogy “memory” that revealed an affair her father had during his marriage. As if that wasn’t enough, Jasmine is approached by three different men from her past—men who once preyed on her—and she makes a powerful decision to protect her inner child in real time.This episode is more than storytelling—it’s a reclamation of power.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation: “I Am Safe to Speak My Truth”At the close of the episode, Jasmine leads a healing 3-minute meditation for daughters, survivors, and preacher’s kids who were once silenced by shame or manipulation.This meditation gently helps listeners release shame, reclaim their voice, and create safety inside their own body.💎 Lessons Learned:Inappropriate behavior deserves accountability—even decades laterYou are not “too much” for telling the truthRighteous rage can be a sacred invitation into healingChildhood violations are never your fault—no matter what you were wearingWhen the church fails to protect, protect yourself anywayYou get to stand up for your inner child, even if no one else ever didIf this episode spoke to your heart, please leave a review or share it with someone navigating caregiving or grief.Tag Jasmine @guidedbyjasmine and use hashtag #HealingLikeAMotha to join the conversation.🔁 Next Week's Episode Teaser:Jasmine takes us through the burial and repass—a bittersweet moment of finality, unexpected grace, and what it means to show up for both your healing and your legacy. It’s a story about sacred closure, loving release, and finding peace in the aftermath.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail🧠 Episode Summary:In this deeply personal episode, Jasmine takes us into the sacred space of her father’s final moments. From intuitive nudges to heartbreaking bedside conversations, this story explores the complex beauty of spiritual transition, sibling connection, and the miracle of divine timing.We journey with her as she receives a spiritual message from her father urging her to come now… and she listens. What unfolds is a powerful testament to honoring your instincts, saying what needs to be said, and standing present—no matter how hard it is.Through raw honesty and grounded reflection, Jasmine brings us inside the room, sharing what it feels like to witness someone you love take their final breath… and the clarity, peace, and grief that follow.---🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation: “I Stayed With Him”At the end of the episode, Jasmine offers a short 3-minute guided meditation for anyone who has walked a loved one home. It’s a gentle space to breathe and reflect.This meditation honors those navigating end-of-life caregiving, grief, and the emotional weight of presence.Access is inside the episode.---✨ Lessons Shared in This Episode:An intuitive message from Jasmine’s father and how it guided her timingThe emotional moment she and her brother witnessed his final breathWhat hospice taught her about the “death rattle” and active dyingA final conversation between father and daughter—heartfelt, sacred, and honestThe surprising peace that came when her deepest prayer—that he not die alone—was answeredA spiritual moment of foot washing, closure, and soul release---If this episode spoke to your heart, please leave a review or share it with someone navigating caregiving or grief.Tag Jasmine @guidedbyjasmine and use hashtag #HealingLikeAMotha to join the conversation.🔁 Next Week's Episode:The Viewing. The church. The secrets that surfaced.Jasmine reflects on her father’s burial, her return to the church that once silenced her, and confronting men from her past who violated her trust—even on the day she buried her father.This next chapter is about reclaiming power, protecting her inner child, and choosing healing—again and again.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail💔 Episode Summary:In this powerful second installment, Jasmine shares the gut-wrenching truth of what it took to ensure her father didn't die alone. From sibling betrayal and elder neglect to an emergency courtroom showdown, this episode reveals the sacred and painful moments of fighting for dignity at the end of a loved one's life.This is a raw and redemptive story about justice, karma, spiritual reckoning—and the healing that comes when you choose love over silence.🧘🏽‍♀️ Guided Meditation: “I Did What I Could”This 2–3 minute meditation supports those carrying the emotional weight of betrayal, grief, and caregiving under pressure.It helps listeners reclaim their breath, release guilt, and return to a place of grounded peace.Access is inside the episode.💡 Lessons Shared in This Episode:Don’t assign power blindly. Choose your legal decision-makers with discernment.Update your wishes annually—don't wait until it's too late.Showing up for a loved one is sacred, even when it's hard.Peace is a right, not a privilege. Don’t be afraid to fight for it.You matter—your needs, your care, your healing.If this episode resonated, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Tag Jasmine @guidedbyjasmine and use hashtag #HealingLikeAMotha to join the conversation.🔮 Don’t Miss Next Week’s Episode: Jasmine shares the powerful and sacred moment of sitting with her father as he transitioned. It’s a spiritual reflection on final goodbyes, honoring intuition, and releasing guilt.Support the show

Send us Fan Mail🖋 Episode Summary:In this raw and deeply personal episode, Jasmine shares the painful story of discovering her father had been abandoned in a memory care facility without essentials, dignity, or explanation. What unfolds is not just a caregiving journey—but a reckoning with childhood trauma, family betrayal, and the unspoken weight of legacy.Through her reflections, Jasmine explores grief in real-time: not as a clean-cut process, but as a sacred, soul-stretching experience. Despite fractured relationships and institutional pushback, she chooses to show up for her father—not because he earned it, but because she’s evolved.This is an episode for anyone navigating complicated family dynamics, caregiving, or healing after abandonment.✨ In This Episode:The emotional moment Jasmine learned her father was left alone with no supportWhat it means to show up for someone who once failed youThe spiritual questions no one prepares you forLessons on karma, boundaries, and choosing love without losing yourselfA powerful guided meditation: “I Showed Up Anyway” for daughters healing from grief and old wounds💔 Trigger Warning: Abandonment, family betrayal, dementia, grief, childhood trauma🧘🏾‍♀️ Mini Meditation Included: “I Showed Up Anyway” — a healing moment for daughters breaking generational pain🛑 Don’t miss next week’s episode: Jasmine heads to court to fight for her father’s right to die with dignity. It’s a battle for compassion—and closure.Support the show

Send us Fan MailEpisode Title: I Love My MomLength: ~15 minutesAir Date: May 12, 2025Host: Jasmine Peters | @guidedbyjasminePodcast: The Chronicles of a Black Lesbian Mompreneur: Healing Like A Motha-----Episode Summary:In this deeply personal Mother's Day episode, Jasmine shares what it means to grieve the absence of a mother who is still living. Through a tender "Dear Diary" reflection, she opens up about estrangement, emotional abandonment, and the powerful decision to love herself enough to let go.This episode is for anyone who feels unmothered — and is still healing anyway.Support the show

Send us Fan MailWhy I am HereSupport the show