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.
Episodes
12 episodes
Season One Finale: Exploring ways that mental health can be a collective responsibility, not a therapist's responsibility alone
You do not need more willpower. You need more relationships. For the season one finale of Kinnected, we ( Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in the United States) look back at what the ten epi...
How therapist-initiated peer support groups can foster collective care
A support group that keeps meeting after the facilitator leaves may sound like the script from a movie, but it actually happened and it changed how we think about community care. In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental he...
Healing in-community: What If Individual Therapy was not the only way to access care
In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika bring their licensed mental health professional hats to the idea of support groups and communities as worthy additions to individual therapy. We chew on the question of what actually helps people come togethe...
Collective Care Without The Romance: Some ways to navigate conflict in relationships
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...
Might brave spaces help us build more authentic relationships with each other?
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...
How might we practice interdependence as a relationship skill to foster collective care and community
We explore interdependence as a grounded practice of collective care, not a feel-good idea, and we name how it reshapes the way we do relationships. We unpack the responsibilities that come with being connected, including conflict, repair, and ...
"Show up" and "Rest up, too": Are there ways to "show up" while also honoring your body's need to rest?
We explore how relationship, rest, and even play become the real infrastructure for sustainable care work. Going solo sounds like freedom until your body realises you’re also payroll, scheduling, marketing, admin, and clinical care ...
Kinnected: The Podcast about Relationships that Will Outlast Empire
What if the most durable force in a collapsing world isn’t power, but relationship? We, Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in Texas and Washington, kick off our podcast about relationships and collective. Kinnected is a p...
Trailer of Kinnected: The Relationships and mental health podcast that talks about collective care
Welcome to Kinnected, the mental health and wellness podcast! We are your hosts, Gitika Talwar, a psychologist and mental health practitioner, and Tolu Mejolagbe, a mental health counselor. We are both based in the United States but with...