Re-Air: Raven-Symoné & Miranda Pearman-Maday. Feel Better In Your Skin
6/12/20261 hr 13 min
In honor of Pride Month AND PTSD Awareness Month, we’re revisiting an awesome episode from 2022 with Raven-Symoné & her wife Miranda Pearman-Maday (content creator, producer, writer, doula)!
They joined us to discuss defense mechanisms, their individual therapy journeys, and the confining nature of labels when it comes to sexuality and gender. They explain how their sexualities protected their true identities and their struggles with depression. Raven opens up about her past relationships with people with narcissistic tendencies, her parents’ reservations about therapy, and her PTSD and anger challenges. She and Mayim bond over their strikingly similar coping mechanisms from having grown up as child actors, their abilities to read others, and how celebrity can heighten people-pleasing tendencies. Miranda reveals how somatic therapy has helped her, and Raven shares her positive experiences with shadow and energy work.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Mayim Bialik.
Speaker 20:05
And I'm Jonathan Cohen.
Speaker 10:06
And welcome to our breakdown. Today, in honor of both Pride Month and PTSD Awareness Month, we're gonna revisit an awesome episode that we did with Raven-Symoné and Miranda Pearman-Madej. You of course know Raven from, if you're my age, The Cosby Show, um, but also from Disney Channel's That's So Raven, Raven's Home, and also The View. And she joins us with her wife, Miranda, who's an incredible content creator, producer, writer, also a doula. Raven opens up about her trauma journey in a very vulnerable way that we actually hadn't heard her speak about elsewhere. She talks about the confining nature of labels when it comes to sexuality and gender, and how sexuality actually helped protect her true identity.
Speaker 20:52
They also broke down their experience with somatic therapy, shadow and energy work, and Raven also discusses her past relationships with people with narcissistic tendencies. She and Mayim actually bond over their strikingly similar coping mechanisms that they developed growing up as child actors and their ability to read others.
Speaker 11:13
Plus, how can being a celebrity heighten your people-pleasing tendencies? We thought this was a perfect conversation to share with you, again, in honor of Pride Month and PTSD Awareness Month.
Speaker 21:25
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