This episode opens the door to a space for thoughtful conversations on being, relating, healing, identity, work, rest, grief, joy, conflict, repair, art, culture, and everything in between. Rooted in the values of Liberation-Based Therapy, this episode reminds us that healing is not only internal. It is relational, contextual, cultural, and collective.

Rather than offering perfect answers or generic advice, Human After All creates room to pause, listen, reflect, and ask deeper questions about how we stay connected to ourselves and one another in times that can feel deeply disconnected.

Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Music Credit: “Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

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In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW reflects on liberation as more than a concept, buzzword, or destination. She explores liberation as an ongoing process of becoming, rooted in history, community, care, resistance, and the everyday choices that help us become more connected, honest, and human.

Drawing from liberation theology, Black liberation traditions, Latinx and Chicanx movements, feminist, womanist, queer, and trans liberation frameworks, this episode traces how liberation has always been tied to lived conditions — poverty, state violence, racism, displacement, patriarchy, survival, and collective struggle.

At its center, this episode asks us to hold a more grounded truth: liberation has never been about utopia. It has always been the work. The work of caring for each other, repairing harm, telling the truth, refusing dehumanization, and building lives, families, relationships, and communities that move us toward something better.

For those feeling tired, overwhelmed, or uncertain, this episode offers a reminder that transformation is possible — not because the work is easy, but because we are still becoming, still moving, and still capable of moving toward liberation together.

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Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

Liberation-Based Therapy Website: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com

Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

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In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW takes a closer look at the theme music heard at the beginning of the podcast: “Better Angels,” written, produced, performed, and sung by Alexis Hightower. Tanisha reflects on the often unseen labor behind music-making: the vulnerability, experimentation, discipline, technology, frustration, and imagination required to translate feeling into sound.

Alexis then shares the story behind “Better Angels,” from the drum and bass groove that first gave the song its sense of forward movement, to the way the song shifted from something bold and self-assured into something more honest, introspective, and human. She speaks about writing, producing, recording, and mixing the song, and how the music came to hold a message about fear, surrender, support, and allowing our “better angels” to do some of the fighting.

This episode is a meditation on creativity, healing, and the humanity behind the art we consume. It reminds us that sometimes healing enters through conversation, and sometimes it enters through sound first.

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Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Podcast Guest: Alexis Hightower

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

Liberation-Based Therapy Website: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com

Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

Make an Appointment https://www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/make-an-appointment

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In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW is joined by Dagem Lemma, LCSW therapist, educator, runner, and clinical supervisor at Liberation-Based Therapy, for a deeply reflective audio note on running, embodiment, and healing beyond the therapy room.

Dagem reflects on running not as escape, but as a practice of return. Through his relationship with endurance running, the mountains, his mother’s walking practice, and the realities of moving through the world in a Black body, he explores what it means to show up honestly to the body, to grief, to belonging, and to the world as it is.

This episode invites listeners to consider movement as more than performance or discipline. It can be a practice of presence. A way of listening. A way of taking up space. A way of remembering that we are human beings, not human doings or human fixings.

At its center, this conversation reminds us that healing does not only happen in therapy rooms or perfectly curated routines. Sometimes, it happens when we move, breathe, listen, and return to ourselves with honesty.

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Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Podcast Guest: Dagem Lemma, LCSW

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

Liberation-Based Therapy Website: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com

Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

Make an Appointment https://www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/make-an-appointment

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In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW, talks through her mother's recent hospitalization and what it means to sit on the other end of a phone, two thousand miles away, while a complicated relationship meets an uncertain ending.

There's history here that doesn't resolve neatly. Distance she needed to survive. And grief but not the kind most people picture. Complicated grief happens when love and harm come from the same person, so the loss doesn't just bring sadness. It also brings relief, anger, guilt, and things that don't cancel each other out no matter how long you sit with them. Tanisha picked up the phone anyway. Her sister held it to their mother's ear. What she said into it, and whether her mother understood it, isn't something this episode resolves for you either.

This episode doesn't try to tie it together. It sits in the contradiction of caring for someone you don't particularly like, in the question of what you owe someone at the end of their life — someone who survived things of her own, who loved in the only way she knew how, even when that way caused harm — and in what's actually left standing once the conventional advice stops working.

Content note: This episode discusses family trauma, estrangement, dementia, hospitalization, narcissistic behavior, and end-of-life experiences.

Credits

Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

Liberation-Based Therapy Website: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com

Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

Make an Appointment https://www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/make-an-appointment

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In this episode of Human After All, host Tanisha Christie, LCSW is joined by Tatille Jackson, MFT-LP for a thoughtful conversation on self-familiarity, self-attunement, and the quiet work of learning how we move through the world.

Tatille explores self-familiarity as more than simply knowing facts about who we are. It is a practice of paying attention to our emotions, our patterns, our needs, and the parts of ourselves we may have learned to avoid, judge, or hide.

When we understand our reactions, emotions, and needs with more curiosity, they may feel less overwhelming and more like information guiding us toward care, clarity, and connection.

This episode invites listeners to consider how becoming known to ourselves can shape the way we show up in relationship, community, and care.

Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Guest: Tatille Jackson, MFT-LP

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

Liberation-Based Therapy Website: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com

Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

Make an Appointment https://www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/make-an-appointment

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