Kids Talk – Being Proud of Who You Are
How can you be proud of who you are? And how can you teach your kids about self-love? This is a topic you can’t teach others if you don’t understand it for yourself. In this episode of Super Power Mommas, Tatiana Berindei and Neva Lee Recla dive into what it means to be your own cheerleader, and how to teach your kids about how to do so for themselves. When we are proud of who we are and love ourselves, anything is possible. Tune in to SuperPower Mommas to learn all about the importance of being proud of who you are!
Tatiana Berindei:
Hello everyone. And welcome to the Superpower Mommas Show. I am your host, Tatiana Berindei, and I’ve got Neva back with us for another episode of our KidsTalk series. Today, we are going to be talking about being proud of who you are. If you don’t know Neva Lee Recla, you need to know her. And if you have not listened to some of our other conversations, please go back and listen to this Kids Talk series. Neva is a powerful 12-year-old bringing forward some real truth in a very articulate way. And I’m just so pleased that I get to keep having these conversations with you Neva. So welcome back. Let’s dive in.
Neva Lee Recla:
Awesome. Thank you Tati, I’m so excited about this conversation.
Tatiana Berindei:
Me too. All right. So tell us why is this the topic for today, being proud of who you are. What inspired you to want to talk about this today?
Neva Lee Recla:
Yeah, so I think it’s very obvious right now. I’m very big in the equality space and the space of showing people that they’re loved for who they are. Recently, well, by the time this show airs, it’ll be a little while ago, but my family and I went to a Phoenix Pride Festival, it was the first Pride Festival I’ve ever gone to. And it was awesome being able to see people fully expressing themselves and just being who they are and being proud of it.
And seeing an amazing community of people celebrating each other in that. And I think this whole concept of being proud of who you are and showing others that they can do the same is so important because it’s like a mix of, I guess, our two episodes of loving yourself. And then we did an episode on the LGBT+ community in the church of just that full space of, pride is where do you find that self-love? Where do you find the ability to be proud of who you are and how do you express it?
Tatiana Berindei:
I love this and it’s interesting because especially I’m not Christian and we’re not talking in the church’s context because pride in the church that’s one of the seven deadly sins. Right?
Neva Lee Recla:
Yeah.
Tatiana Berindei:
And yet what you’re talking about is something so different. A question that I have is what did you notice that was different about how these people were celebrating themselves? That’s different from what you normally see?
Neva Lee Recla:
That’s a good question. I think that away I saw it was obviously was in the bounds of a festival so there was a lot of adult material around, but it was we’ve been to burning man and we’ve experienced a bunch of different music festivals and those sort of experiences. But I think it was different because for me, at least for where I live in Arizona and stuff, there’s not a whole lot of diversity. And so going to a place where I was able to see a bunch of different people just fully celebrating themselves and admitting that they’re different was really awesome. Especially as a difference to where I’m located in the world.
Tatiana Berindei:
Yeah. What I’m hearing and just from my own experience and indifferent pride spaces, there’s an at least in those moments and I think it’s important to caveat this because I don’t think that we can say that all of those people who showed up at Pride are always living that in their lives. Some of them are, and some of the Pride is like the place where they get to do that and they don’t get to do that most of the time. But, what I have experienced about those spaces is there’s a lack of shame, which I think is really powerful, right? Shame is such damaging. Shame, I think is really at the core of why we wouldn’t celebrate ourselves because we’re ashamed of something, some aspect of ourselves we’ve become ashamed of.
Neva Lee Recla:
Yeah, exactly. It’s the society standards tend to show us that if we don’t fit in boxes, then we’re supposed to not be proud of it. And whether it’s who you love, how you identify as, what you look like, your capabilities and things, etc, your beliefs, if it doesn’t fit in certain boxes, it tends to be shown as you have to be ashamed of this. But I think that in those spaces you’re talking about there is no shame. And just being able to be authentically who you are is such a powerful space. And that goes beyond Pride festivals.
Tatiana Berindei:
Totally. All right. We’re going to pause here because we have to go on a quick break. Before we do, will you tell our listeners where they can go to find out more about you and your brilliance?
Neva Lee Recla:
Absolutely. So all of our social media, most active on Instagram with my handle being my Neva Lee Recla and you can also find me by going to superpowerkids.com if you want to check out my book and my podcast. And also stay tuned for my upcoming podcast, leave it to Neva where I’ll be having these types of discussions, but in more of a monologue set up. So stay tuned there and make sure to connect with me on social media.
Tatiana Berindei:
And you and I are totally going to be doing some kind of parenting class at some point, I just know it.
Neva Lee Recla:
Definitely.
Tatiana Berindei:
Yeah, because there is stuff wanting to come through here, my love. Go and check Neva out. If you have not come into the Superpower Universe yet to play with us, what are you waiting for? Please go check it out. Go to superpowermommas.com and sign up for your free seven-day trial. I’ve got my new moon circles in there. We’ve got some really fun classes. There are all sorts of deals and things that you get as a member in our universe, you get to access our monthly community calls. There’s a lot of really good, yummy stuff. So come and play with us in there. We are having this is part three of our ongoing talk series with Neva Lee Recla. Today we’re talking about being proud of who you are. More when we get back, stay tuned.
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