🎙️ Episode 22: Can You Be Soft When Your Mama Survived Adultification, Reaganomics, and Lye Relaxers?

This week, Alyzza and Lorryn get real personal about what it means to be soft 💅🏾 when the women who raised us had to survive everything from adultification to Reaganomics to lye relaxers and hard times 😩💭

Before getting tender, the girls dive into a chaotic breakdown of 🔥Cardi B’s new album—which somehow turns into a deep discussion about:

💊 HIV, PrEP, & responsible sexual health practices
🤰🏾 Postpartum healing while balancing caring for children, unrealistic work goals and the pursuit of hapPENISs 🤭
💬 Parasocial relationships, mental illness, & online feuds
👩🏾‍🍼 The public performance of motherhood and unwarranted albeit sometimes correct critiques of said performance

Then, they bridge generations 🫶🏾 to explore how our mothers’ survival shaped our ideas of rest, resilience, and womanhood—and how we’re finally learning to choose softness, curiosity, and self-definition without shame. 🌿✨

Whether you’re healing your inner child, raising one, or just learning to rest without guilt, this episode will have you laughing, nodding, and maybe… calling your mama. 📞❤️

Chapters

0:00 - Welcome

08:05 - Glow & Grow

28:24 - Whew Girl, What is Going On?

30:02 - Am I The Drama? Album Discussion

50:35 - Nicki & Cardi Take the Gloves Off

1:03:59 - The Complexity of Race and Perception

1:17:06 - Critiques of Parenting Choices in the Public Eye

1:31:36 - The Reality of Postpartum Recovery

1:49:16 - HIV Prevention & PrEP Campaign

2:03:31 - Remembering D’Angelo

2:20:09 - Bridges & Breakdowns

3:25:00 - P.S.

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