60: Legacy Burdens Cross-Cultural Healing With Ifs & Embrace Your Unicorn Self With Deran Young

In this poignant and powerful conversation with Deran Young, founder of Black Therapists Rock, learn all about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how you can use that to claim unseen parts of yourself as well as heal racism and racial and cross-cultural wounds. Deran shares about her perspectives on the Legacy Burden of the Black Community, in herself, and encourages us all to look at our own Legacy Burdens in our ancestries. We explore the importance of racial trauma and cross-cultural conversations in society and using IFS as a platform safe and productive healing, as well as her experiences of being Muslim for 5 years, in the US Air Force for 17, and her fascination with the magic of Unicorns.Deran previously served in the U.S. Air Force for 17 years! Deran is an Internationally experienced clinician, who has practiced in over 5 countries, most recently supporting a week-long IFS training in China in October of 2018. Black Therapists Rock is a non-profit organization Deran founded, geared towards increasing awareness of social and emotional challenges impacting marginalized populations.She has also been featured in the Huffington Post as one of the “10 Black Female Therapists You Should Know”. In 2018 she was selected as a Facebook Community Partner and is currently working to fulfill a proposal towards creating a burnout prevention project for mental health professionals called Healing the Healer.She obtained her undergraduate education in Social Psychology and received her Masters in Social Work at the University of Texas. She also holds a Masters in Public Administration (with emphasis on leadership, diversity, and organizational culture). She has personally traveled to over 32 countries and conducted her final semester of grad school in Ghana, West Africa, where she established a High School counseling center.Through her work with Black Therapists Rock, she is focused on education and outreach, while leading over 20,000 professionals. She was acknowledged by the Mayor of Baltimore for “helping to educate the public on mental illness and end the stigma that is often associated with it”. Her hard work and dedication to raising awareness of mental health issues resulted in her work being highlighted by the acclaimed Psychotherapy Networker magazine, and she has also been featured in the Huffington Post as one of the “10 Black Female Therapists You Should Know”. In 2018 she was selected as a Facebook Community Partner and is currently working to fulfill a proposal towards creating a burnout prevention project for mental health professionals called Healing the Healer.Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode📝https://candicewu.com/deran Podcast Homepage🎧 https://candicewu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community💌 https://candicewu.com/embody-communityPatreon – Your Support Means So Much!💝 https://candicewu.com/patreonCandice Wu Page on Facebook👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNatureSponsored by my new Skillshare Class on Dream PhysiologyI am excited to share a passion project of mine: the online Dream Work Series!Dreamwork is a deep way to cultivate a connection with yourself, and build empowerment and self-love. Our dreams offer access to parts of ourselves that are hidden or unseen and wanting to be revealed for higher wisdom and awareness.The most recent class I created is to support people who are interested in dreamwork to support their bodies in the safety, playfulness, and openness to better remember their dreams — Dreaming: Embodiment Practices to Prepare Your Physiology For a Thriving Dream Life.This course offers specific breathing techniques, yogic and body-centered practices, and meditations that you can use to ground yourself and develop safety and playfulness for your dreams to thrive. These practices will support your nervous system in feeling a level of deep rest and relaxation, giving the capacity for you to remember your dreams even better than before or for the first time. You can use these meditations any time to feel embodied, restful, and centered, but we will use them here to specifically develop your dream life. I’ll walk you through every step and you can use these daily, if they resonate with you.This is Part 1 of 2, where you will learn how to build your capacity for remembering your dreams through body-centered practices. In Part 2, coming soon, I’ll walk you through Visualizations combined with Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practices that support the nervous system in playfulness, pleasure, daydreaming, imagination, and openness so that your dream life can thrive!Learn more about this and other classes by me at CandiceWu.com/classesShow Notes0:00 Intro1:07 Sponsored by My New Physiology Dream Class3:48 Introducing Deran5:32 Opening the Conversation6:18 How Did You End Up Where You Are Now?7:58 Internal Family Systems and Self Love12:41 IFS, Grace and Not Knowing14:00 The Legacy Burden in the Black Community16:32 How to Address Social and Emotional Challenges of Marginalized Groups19:56 Candice - Story of Being Part of the Minority20:48 The Importance of This Conversation in Society22:59 How Can We Begin These Conversations With Safety?25:24 Integrating the Soul, The Core Being, and Spirituality26:21 Open Hearted Spirituality28:28 Being Muslim for 5 Years? What Stands Out for You?29:35 Cultural Differences & Learning From Different Energies31:14 What Was the Air Force Like for Deran?32:01 What I Loved About the Military34:13 What Challenges Deran Right Now?36:57 Learning to Do for You!39:29 Fascination With Unicorns and Believing41:46 Lightning Round41:55 What’s a Recent Dream You Have Had?43:48 What Parts Are You Working With Right Now?47:04 How Are You Affected by the Moon?47:26 Mention of Daphne Fuller — Black Minds in Meditations48:59 Sharing Healing Techniques Within the Black Community49:23 IFS to Help Claim Unseen Parts51:38 Results of Patriarchy52:57 Anything Else to Share? Polarization — When Do You Disagree?53:15 Disagreements and How to Handle Them55:00 Where People Can Find Deran and Her Organization Black Therapists Rock57:39 A Note About Family Constellations and Their Relationship to IFS1:03:16 Outro1:04:18 Where to Find Deran1:04:41 Thank You for Joining Us