Healing Yourself Before Raising Your Children with Dr. Terence Lester, PhD

About this episode

Dr. Terence Lester discusses his journey and the importance of healing oneself before raising children.

This conversation with Dr. Terence Lester begins with his journey from dropout to doctorate, but it quickly becomes something deeper. We talk about growing up with fear, living through trauma, and making the choice not to pass that pain on to your children. Terence shares what it means to sit on a refrigerator in protest of hunger, and why food is about more than survival. We also talk about faith, the Black church, and what it means to follow a path rooted in compassion rather than power. Th...

People in this episode

Host: Frank Schaeffer

Guest: Dr. Terence Lester

Topics covered

• parenting
• trauma
• faith
• compassion
• Black church
• food insecurity

Keywords

• healing
• parenting
• trauma
• faith
• Black church
• compassion
• food

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