Kinnected
The mental health podcast that centers collective care and relationships that outlast empire. Hosted by two BIPOC mental health professionals located in the so-called United States, Tolu Mejolagbe LPC, LMHCA and Gitika Talwar, PhD.
Kinnected
Latest Episodes
Collective Care Without The Romance
Community is supposed to be where we feel held, but what happens when it is also where we get hurt? We sit down as two licensed mental health professionals to talk about the side of collective care that rarely gets named: the inconvenience, the...
What If The Most Human Space Is Not Safe But Brave
Tolu is away at a training and we are trying something new! Bonus episodes where we record solo, share poems or other writings that we want to share with each other and YOU! So in this episode, I record one of my favorite poems, a poem that als...
Can Solidarity Hold Difference Without Erasure: how might our values guide collective care?
Values show up when things get real: the job offer that looks good on paper, the conflict you keep avoiding, the moment you realize you’re exhausted from making the same hard choice over and over. We’re Tolu and Gitika, two licensed...
Collective Grief Rituals For A Busy World
Grief doesn’t come with an action plan. It shows up, it changes the air in the room, and it refuses to be “solved” by working harder or thinking differently. Today we sit with what happens when death and loss break into ordinary life, and why g...
Limits That Keep Love Alive: setting boundaries without cutting people off
“Boundaries” can sound like a clean solution, but real relationships are messier than a script. We start from that tension and ask a more honest question: how do we set limits in relationships without turning connection into control, and withou...