Jan 1 2024
Healing Through Empathy and Reprogramming with Farzana Jaffer Jeraj
Author and TedTalk keynote speaker , Farzana Jaffer Jerajdecodes the programming that drives almost everything we do - from protests to allyship and every corner of our day to day human interactions, and those with ourselves.
This conversation explores the impact of current events on mental health, the challenges of engaging in activism, the risk of going along without understanding, the importance of self-reflection and reprogramming, the dangers of performative allyship, the fear of change and uncertainty, the need for continuous conversations on social issues, the challenges of having productive discussions, the reasons for getting stuck in life, the importance of shaking things up, and the balance between self-care and self-absorption. In this conversation, Farzana discusses the importance of having a positive conversation with ourselves and the need to ally with ourselves - and emphasizes the significance of emotional processing and self-acknowledgment, highlighting the impact of unprocessed emotions on our bodies.