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This is Kultivating Kapwa, hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig and Olivia Sawi. In our FIRST series, we sit down and ask Auntie Leny questions about her life, her work, decolonization, academia, ethnoautobiography, her relationship to nature, the land, and all living beings, and her views of the future. In our SECOND series, we have conversations with members of the community and explore how decolonization has manifested itself in their work, and how they cultivate kapwa in their own lives. In our THIRD series, we discuss decolonizing parenthood. We explore how decolonization shows up at home and in family, relational to our collective children. We delve into the intergenerational healing that exists in parenting the next generation, that ripples into our relationships to our elders and ancestors, our community, and all parts of our lives.
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.26
"Raising the Family Lead by the Honoring of Our Emotions"
In this episode, we are joined by Jaisa Sulit. We discuss how an injury led her to a path of mindfulness and decolonizing how she has moved forward in work, how her own self care affects how she parents, the understanding that children are more intelligent than we personally observe or think, seeing her son as a co-creator, and more.
Jaisa Sulit (she/her/siya), her partner TJ Lim, and their son Jasper gratefully live together in Tkaronto, which is on the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Tkaronto is also home to a diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.
Jaisa is the only child of Jaime Chiu Sulit and Luisa Santos Baello. Jaime is from Quezon City with lineages from Los Banos as well as Canton, China and Luisa is from Caloocan with lineages from Bataan. Jaisa acknowledges her privileges as an immigrant-settler and is humbly learning how to integrate acts of reconciliation into the daily lives of her family.
Jaisa worked as a neuro-rehab occupational therapist for five years until she sustained a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle “accident.” This put her on the inward journey where she discovered parts of herself waiting to be held. As such, Jaisa went on to become a practitioner of medical qigong, reiki, Chinese Shamanic Medicine and a teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction curriculums. In 2018, she published an Amazon best-selling book “Purpose in Paralysis: From Chronic Pain to Universal Gain” which tells the story of how Jaisa learned to walk and stand in her truth.
Since Jasper’s birth in 2020, Jaisa has been focusing full time on motherhood, respecting Jasper as her co-researcher in the learning of life here on mother earth. Until she returns to work in a year or so, Jaisa will be continuing to learn how to meet her own needs in the ways that she meets her son's.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
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