Blog — Jazmine Russell

Building Psychiatric Alternatives: The Weglauf Haus in Berlin with Kim Wichera

Building Psychiatric Alternatives: The Weglauf Haus in Berlin with Kim Wichera

When it comes to mental health crises, there are incredible and highly effective healing alternatives to psychiatric institutionalization worldwide! These respite centers offer agency, choice, freedom, and coordinated care, in place of the dominant “medicate and separate” model.In this episode of the Depth Work podcast, I got to sit down in person with Kim Wichera, an artist and activist who has spent their life devoted to uplifting alternatives to coercive treatment and fighting for those who society has left behind.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellFebruary 25, 2023

Creating Your Life Like A Work Of Art: Visioning & Goal Setting The Easy Way

Creating Your Life Like A Work Of Art: Visioning & Goal Setting The Easy Way

Modern “goal-setting” strategies can feel cold or simply exhausting. I’ve spent a decade researching the best ways to intentionally set goals that are aligned with your values in a way that also feels easy and fun.

Goal SettingJazmine RussellFebruary 25, 2023

Psychic & Intuitive Development : Answering the Call to Use Your Magical Gifts

Psychic & Intuitive Development : Answering the Call to Use Your Magical Gifts

Energy healing, psychic work and mysticism is not reserved for a select few, these gifts are available to anyone who desires to engage with it, as many of our ancestors did. Today's magical guest is a fellow psychic and energy healer who also trains others in the craft. We talk about what it's like to "answer the call" as a healer, train in psychic school, and how to trust yourself and your gifts.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellFebruary 24, 2023

A Candid Conversation on Childhood Sexual Abuse, Radical Self-Responsibility, & Kink with Jagger Waters

A Candid Conversation on Childhood Sexual Abuse, Radical Self-Responsibility, & Kink with Jagger Waters

This is an intimate conversation between one of my best friends of 15 years - we have a common lived experience of being molested as children and we get very honest about what childhood sexual abuse is like and what it takes to come out the other side of it as healthy adults.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellJanuary 31, 2023

Deconstructing Institutional Racism with Milta Vega Cardona

Deconstructing Institutional Racism with Milta Vega Cardona

This week I got to talk to Milta Vega Cardona, National Anti-Racism/Anti Oppression Consultant providing support in organizing and curating conversations on Race and Racism in the United States, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. We had an inspiring talk about reclaiming our heart-centred humanity & deconstructing institutional racism. Listen to the podcast now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellJanuary 31, 2023

Narrative Healing: Reclaiming Your Story & the Power of Cross-Movement Organizing in Mental Health with Jessie Roth

Narrative Healing: Reclaiming Your Story & the Power of Cross-Movement Organizing in Mental Health with Jessie Roth

It takes courage to own your story, especially for trauma survivors. Jessie Roth shows us, in this episode, the power of storytelling, showing up as your full self with the multiple roles and identities you hold and why it’s important to intentionally straddle frameworks to re-story your experiences as a form of healing. As the director of The Institute for the Development of Human Arts, she’s also a master at facilitating cross-movement knowledge building at the intersections of mental health and social justice.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellJanuary 20, 2023

Becoming an Ancestor Worthy of Praise with Veronica Agard

Becoming an Ancestor Worthy of Praise with Veronica Agard

What does it mean to become an ancestor who is worthy of praise? To leave a legacy? How do we become the kind of ancestor our familial or collective future descendants want to call on? Today’s guest, Veronica Agard, founder of Ancestors in Training, shares her journey.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellJanuary 20, 2023

Healing Ancestral Trauma and Impostor Syndrome

Healing Ancestral Trauma and Impostor Syndrome

Many of the wounds, patterns, and emotions we carry in our bodies are not only our own. Some emotional wounds that get conceptualized as personality traits, habits, or norms, are actually inherited ancestral trauma. In this episode we talk about intergenerational/ancestral trauma, using the example of impostor syndrome as rooted in historical oppression. We also walk about elders, getting to know your living ancestors, making ancestor alters, and tangible steps in how to engage in ancestral healing.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellDecember 16, 2022

Legacies of Activism, Being a Peer Specialist, and Radical Imagination with Noah Gokul

Legacies of Activism, Being a Peer Specialist, and Radical Imagination with Noah Gokul

It takes radical imagination to envision a future of mental health that is rooted in community support and multiple ways of approaching healing. Noah Gokul is an artist and mental health educator who embodies this concept in all their work.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellDecember 9, 2022

Global Mental Health and Human Rights Activism with Brazilian Psychologist Ana Florence

Global Mental Health and Human Rights Activism with Brazilian Psychologist Ana Florence

This week I got to talk to my friend and colleague, Ana Florence, Brazilian clinical psychologist and researcher, about the impact of globalization, the export of psychiatry from the global north to the south, and what it means to be a clinician dedicated to consistent self-inquiry.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellDecember 9, 2022

Building Our Capacity for Joy - How to feel joy more often

Building Our Capacity for Joy - How to feel joy more often

Why do we get nervous when things start to feel really good? Why does the mind often sabotage moments of joy or bliss? Learn how you can have more joy and happiness in your life, and why it might be terrifying sometimes.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellDecember 1, 2022

Holotropic Breathwork For Emotional Release and Trauma Integration

Holotropic Breathwork For Emotional Release and Trauma Integration

Holotropic Breathwork is an amazing modality that utilizes breath, embodiment, gently altered states of consciousness, and emotional expression to create the conditions for any deeply embodied pain that we've held in for years or decades to be released and integrated.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellOctober 25, 2022

Normalizing Mystical Experiences: The Psychic, The Witch, and The Empath

Normalizing Mystical Experiences: The Psychic, The Witch, and The Empath

Mystical experiences are more common than we may think, but we live in a world that views them as strange, pathological, or only available to a “special” select few. I believe we all have the capacity to tap into the divine and see beyond the veil if we desire, and that connecting deeply to the world around us through our lived mysticism is a foundational part of healing work. In this episode I’ll tell you how I discovered I was a “witch” or mystic, what precognition as a kid feels like, and how I ground my spiritual practice in my lived experiences without taking it all too seriously.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellOctober 20, 2022

Indigenous Holistic Psychologies and Ancestral Wisdom with Elmina Bell

Indigenous Holistic Psychologies and Ancestral Wisdom with Elmina Bell

Have you been curious about ancestral healing but unsure how to engage? Most of us have been disconnected from our ancestors through colonialism, but that doesn’t mean we can’t access the wisdom that lives on through us. This week I had the huge privilege of getting to talk with Elmina Bell of Mulema Alchemy.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellOctober 14, 2022

Inner Child Healing: Effective & Practical Steps to Re-Parenting

Inner Child Healing: Effective & Practical Steps to Re-Parenting

Inner Child work is a practice of getting in touch with your subconscious feelings, beliefs, and wounding that may have been stuffed down since childhood. In inner child work, we have the opportunity to re-learn healthy attachment, develop deeper self-trust, notice and resolve “self-sabotaging” patterns, learn how to hold space for intense emotions and re-parent ourselves.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellSeptember 18, 2022

The Fertile Void - Navigating Confusion, Lostness, and Emptiness

The Fertile Void - Navigating Confusion, Lostness, and Emptiness

The "fertile void" is the idea that moments in a life marked by massive transitions, emptiness, lostness, and confusion can also be moments of pure magic and possibility. Feeling confused in areas of life can be a healthy and wonderful sign that there's so much more waiting for us.

SpiritualityJazmine RussellSeptember 9, 2022

Honoring Our Anger & Rage

Honoring Our Anger & Rage

Anger is one of the most misunderstood and repressed emotions. There are many ways we dishonour our anger culturally and societally, yet there is so much power and wisdom in our anger when we learn ways to express it without causing harm or violence. Here are a few mistakes I’ve made in the process of learning to honour my anger and what I do now to listen to it.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellSeptember 2, 2022

Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse & Complex Trauma

Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse & Complex Trauma

Healing from childhood sexual abuse is far more complex than healing somatically. Often we must confront challenging family dynamics, betrayal, attachment wounds, abandonment, rage, grief, self-blame, guilt, and so much more. In this episode, I talk about the biggest lessons I've learned in healing from childhood trauma.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellAugust 26, 2022

When & How to Deal with Emotional Triggers : DEPTH Work vs. Width Work

When & How to Deal with Emotional Triggers : DEPTH Work vs. Width Work

How do we know when to dive in and when to distract from uncomfortable emotions? I like to use a framework that emerged from my own healing process to answer these tough questions, especially when it comes to dealing with fear, anxiety, and overwhelm.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellAugust 19, 2022

The Root Causes of "Psychosis”: Mental Health Crisis as An Opportunity for Healing

The Root Causes of "Psychosis”: Mental Health Crisis as An Opportunity for Healing

In this episode you'll hear my personal story of surviving a mental health crisis outside the system, having an intense spiritual awakening, and learning vital lessons about the root causes of mental health concerns.

Mental HealthJazmine RussellAugust 14, 2022