Decolonizing Mental Health By Returning to Your Body

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of reconnecting with the body and ancestral practices to decolonize mental health and empower leadership, featuring a conversation with Kay Thellot.

The answers you’ve been searching for have been living in your body all along. In this conversation with Kay Thellot, an ethnotherapist and founder of Prensip Minokan, we explore what it means to decolonize mental health and its role in our leadership journey. Remembering that our healing isn’t something we have to earn, it’s something we return to. Kay shares with Rohene Bouajram how reconnecting with ancestral practices, movement, and the quiet wisdom of the body helps us reclaim the parts of ourselves that colonial systems taught us to silence. We talk about how fear can look like excitement, what it means to cross the line back to your true self, and why the body is both archive and compass for women of colour reclaiming their power in leadership roles.   Connect with Kay: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kay-thellot-0300aa251](http://linkedin.com/in/kay-thellot-0300aa251) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prensip.minokan/?hl=en Website: https://www.prensipminokan.com/   Connect with Rohene: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohenebouajram/ Website www.rohenebouajram.com   Access resources to redefine your leadership: https://www.rohenebouajram.com/resources…

People in this episode

Host: Rohene Bouajram

Guest: Kay Thellot

Topics covered

• decolonizing mental health
• leadership
• ancestral practices
• body wisdom
• women of colour empowerment

Keywords

• mental health
• leadership
• decolonization
• ancestral practices
• body wisdom
• women of colour
• empowerment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Prensip Minokan, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, www.rohenebouajram.com, https://www.prensipminokan.com/

More episodes of Unspeakable Leadership

• Developing the Mindset to Dream Big & Build Boldly · June 11, 2026 · 36 min
• When “Good Enough” Isn’t Enough Anymore · June 4, 2026 · 16 min
• I Am Not the Problem, Neither Are You. · November 20, 2025 · 17 min
• Dare to be Ambitious: Redefine, Hold Joy, and Build Self-Trust · November 6, 2025 · 39 min
• Ancient Intelligence for Women Leaders in the AI Era · October 30, 2025 · 36 min
• How Neurodivergent Women Lead Through Radical Acceptance · October 23, 2025 · 42 min