Queer Story Time The Podcast · Stevie Inghram

Surviving S*xual Trauma & Marginalization Via Holistic Health with Dr. Mojisola Edu

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

A military superior tried to touch her breast and threatened her, leading to homelessness and a shredded paperwork cover-up.

Dr. Mojisola Edu joins host Stevie Ingram to discuss holistic healing for survivors of sexual trauma and marginalized communities. Dr. Edu is a Nigerian American disabled Army veteran, military sexual trauma survivor, yoga therapist, and recipient of a President's Lifetime Achievement Award. She describes her personal journey from homelessness to attending Harvard and founding the She Wins Network. Dr. Edu argues that systemic barriers like racism, classism, and patriarchy within organizations and legislation prevent equitable access to wellness resources. She criticizes some veteran service organizations and DEI initiatives for performing inclusivity without creating substantive change. A key insight is her concept of identifying life's "drains" and "fountains" to manage energy and set boundaries as a healer. Dr. Edu advocates for a necessary merger between conventional Western medicine and holistic practices to address root causes, not just symptoms. She shares that she takes spiritual baths to cleanse heavy energy absorbed from clients and recommends creating a "joy jar" for self-care. Dr. Edu connects societal trauma to unaddressed personal trauma, stating that policymakers perpetuate harm because they haven't done their own inner work. She references the Buddha's parable of the two arrows to illustrate how people often compound their own suffering. The conversation explores how her multiple identities—Black, queer, disabled, trauma survivor—have built her empathy and capacity to hold space for others. The tone is conversational, empathetic, and passionately advocacy-focused, blending personal narrative with systemic critique. Listeners interested in trauma-informed yoga, social justice, and integrative health models would find this episode compelling. Those seeking a light, apolitical, or strictly clinical discussion of wellness might find the content too intense or systemic in scope.

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A grounded healing conversation that treats trauma as something named, not minimized.

Queer Storytime stays in a hard emotional register here, and it does not pretend that makes for easy listening. Stevie Ingram begins with a grounding practice, then moves into a close conversation about abuse, manipulation, family damage, and the slow work of realizing that what…

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For when you want queer healing talk that pairs trauma with inward grounding.

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