Growth & Grace

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Leaha Crawford 0:52
Hey, hi, good morning, Las Vegas. Okay, it is officially fall. It has gotten cold. It's really cold a

Julian Rosado 0:59
little bit it's chilly. Hey, I haven't brought up my mint yet. I have, I have gloves. Oh my gosh, I have the coolest okay, this is a Columbia jacket, but I have another

Leaha Crawford 1:09
Columbia jacket. Well, say good morning, Julian, first start off with good morning. And if y'all can see me, I am holding my head because he comes out with the gloves. I

Julian Rosado 1:17
have gloves and have a matching hat. Oh my god, it looks so cool. I'm excited for it.

Julian Rosado 1:24
I'm excited for you. I'm excited for you. Oh, in a scarf. You got a scarf?

Julian Rosado 1:28
Got a scarf? Yeah, I love, I love winter gear. So what color, what color it's gray and black. What color, what color is the hat? It's, it's Columbia, it's, it's black, all black.

Julian Rosado 1:39
In the gloves, black, everything black. Everything black. All black.

Julian Rosado 1:42
Okay, all right, yeah. Except the hat is a north face. It's green,

Leaha Crawford 1:46
so North Face in Colombia, yeah, yeah. I don't think it ever gets that cold here where you have to wear a hat, scarf.

Julian Rosado 1:54
It did last year. Last year it was freezing cold. Where I wore I wore that stuff. Maybe it's just me, okay, like I'm freezing right now. You're freezing right now? Yeah, feel my hands.

Leaha Crawford 2:04
No, that's okay.

Leaha Crawford 2:08
So that means the heat is on in your house. This is my favorite time. Yeah, it's like 80 degrees, right? It's so funny because now I actually open the windows and everything. I really love this weather. Love because the fresh air, air seems crisper, it's fresher, yeah,

Julian Rosado 2:21
oh no, I like to be

Leaha Crawford 2:22
and I get me some hot cocoa, cut the fireplace on with the Yes, yes, a whole vibe. Love it all. Right. So today, you have anything you want to talk about, basketball.

Leaha Crawford 2:32
We good. This is you're not watching football

Julian Rosado 2:36
for right now, everything's pretty steady. LeBron is coming back, I think, in two weeks. So okay, so you still watching? Yeah, y'all know, you a Lakers fan. So, I mean,

Leaha Crawford 2:46
that is not true, and you know that, but it's okay. It's all right, all right. So today, y'all, we're going to talk about healing hearts. So I met these lovely ladies at an event, and I was just intrigued by the organization, and I wanted to learn more about it. We really didn't have a lot of time to talk. So today we're going to get educated on Healing Hearts. So I have Miss Yolanda and Miss Angelica here with me this morning. Welcome ladies.

Angelica 3:11
Thank you so much good

Leaha Crawford 3:13
morning. So first of all, how long have you well, I'll take both of you separately. How long have you been in the valley?

Yolanda 3:19
I moved here in 2011 from Long Beach, California, okay, Angelica,

Angelica 3:24
I moved here two years ago from Arizona. All right, so, oh,

Leaha Crawford 3:28
so you're fairly new to the valley. Very new, very new. Okay, so you really so this is all okay for you, because this is a real change for some of us. Absolutely. I've been here for a long time. All right, so talk to me about healing hearts. What what is Healing Hearts?

Yolanda 3:41
Well, first of all, thank you so much for wanting to know more about what we're doing. Healing Hearts started in 2017 we're a nonprofit that works with at risk youth. We work with the homeless youth, kids that have been sex trafficked, and the homeless community. And when I tell you that there's never a boring day, there's never a day, I can tell you, we don't get a phone call. We started this in 2017 and it was more of an urgency, because I needed to get into a specific school. And when I went there, they said, Well, do you have a psychologist? I mean, are you a psychologist? You have a degree? How do you want to come and speak to the youth? I didn't have a psychology degree, so they said Your other choice was opening up a nonprofit. I didn't know what I was doing, but I opened up a nonprofit. Okay, why did I need to go to the school? I found out my daughter was cutting, and when she told me that there was 15 other girls cutting inside at lunch at the same time.

Leaha Crawford 4:34
Wait, what was cutting? They were cutting. Cutting. Cutting means self harm, cutting their wrist.

Yolanda 4:41
The thing about it is, I'll leave that alone, because I know a lot about that, because either because it depends on how they're cutting too, sometimes they're doing it for attention, sometimes it's for attention, but sometimes it's real Exactly, exactly, okay, a lot of these kids, I'm I had no idea my daughter was self harming. You know, she would wear these huge bracelets, and I always thought, Okay, well, I'm gonna. Be the new style, until the counselor told me, and she came to the house and took off every bracelet and I checked her stomach, she had cuts everywhere. Oh, man. So as a parent, how

Leaha Crawford 5:11
did you feel first? Let's talk about the emotion, and how did I feel

Yolanda 5:15
when I received the phone call from the counselor telling me take your seizure medication because your daughter's coming home to tell you something that you are going to have to be okay with when you hear it. I was in shock. I never in a million years, here I am helping other people. Never knew my daughter needed the help. So when I when I saw her

Leaha Crawford 5:35
trying not to cry because I can being a mother, you, you.

Yolanda 5:40
It took me a while, and, you know, and I'm proud of myself to be able to speak about it without crying, because it took me a couple years. Okay, it took me a couple years. Yeah, I need tissue. I found out that she had, she had been touched by a family member, and I had no idea, but this had happened to me as well, so me being ignored wouldn't happen to me. And now that I heard it happened to my daughter, I was ready. I wanted to see blood. So that's what, what started healing hearts, is when I found out about my daughter and I was able to get help for her, I figured, what's going to happen to the other young ladies? So I went in. We went in and I took four periods. I didn't get paid. I went in for free to the school. I showed him the curricular we the curriculum we have of your story matters, which is acknowledging, yes, this happened, accepting it's part of your life, and releasing what no longer serves you. So I went in there, showed the curriculum. I told them, I don't have a teaching credential, but this curriculum is going to help people, and I can't take credit for it, because I don't know if you guys believe in the power of prayer and meditation. What I did after I found out that happened to my daughter is I had so much anger in me and being a person with a godly foundation, I wasn't I wasn't good for my spirit. So I went into the closet, and for a year and a half, I just kept on writing. I would just see paragraphs and just write, write, write, write, and that's how your story matter came about. And the first chapter is the power of prayer, because these kids need to know that they're not alone. And then the second chapter is, how do you deal with stress? Different breathing techniques? You know how when you breathe, how it's going to help your body? We teach them how to do tapping to be able to understand that if you're having a crisis and crying, there's certain places you got to tap to stop. How does that work? Tapping?

Leaha Crawford 7:26
And the thing is, I totally understand, because I am a Reiki practitioner, and I go into a room and I practice everything you mentioned. I'm like, Yep, I do that, yep, I do that, yep, and that, yep, just towards my son, breathing exercises and stuff like that. Yeah,

Yolanda 7:46
I'm a Reiki Master, but I don't like to say that, because I changed. I did study it. I have, I've been certified, but us, I was not the first healer. It was Jesus. So I'm bringing it all back to God again. We don't need to put symbols on body. All we need is prayer and we need intention. So this is what I'm doing, is teaching these kids that got it, and for that reason is when this book came out, or your story matters. It's not a book, it's a curriculum. I haven't published it because it's not mine to publish. This is something that I really feel it's just to make sure that the people understand, the youth understand who they are and how to love themselves. So my daughter helps me teach it. I mean, she came to the point where, now she's 24 years old, and now she speaks about it. Because the moment that we talk about the things that as parents, we really don't want to talk about, takes a lot of courage. It does. And I get, I get her permission. She did remind me, though she said, Mom, stop saying cutting. You have to say self harm.

Leaha Crawford 8:40
Well, the thing about it is, is that I think you have to put a label on it, though. I think, I think you have to identify what it is, because self harm could be so many that's true, and that's, that's what I was thinking. So it was it that it's a broad array of things.

Julian Rosado 8:52
It couldn't be able to connect with,

Leaha Crawford 8:54
connect with what it is, right? Because I know for me, I would never cut me. I just, I was Dave, I would never put me, but I might have done something else, correct, taking medicine, you know, taking medicine, take, you know, and, yeah, yeah. And

Yolanda 9:09
that's so we had to deal with within school, you know, getting four periods. They literally said, Miss Yolanda. These are the kids that we can't put in Home Ec. We can't put his teacher's aides, because they're going to hurt somebody. They just they called them lost cause. I go to the first period, and literally, this teacher said, these are the kids that don't really want to pay attention and don't even mind that boy and sleeping. He's always sleeping in all the classrooms. Said, Okay, I applauded them. I said, Congratulations, all of you guys are leaders, but you don't know how to lead. So I took every single one out all four periods. I took out every child, and I took my hand out. I said, Don't shake it if you're not ready to change. Everybody did, except a young man at that age. He was 12 years old, 13 years old, and he had purple around his neck. He says, I want to stop doing this. He used to hang himself monthly to get attention. From his parents. That was the only way that they'd spent some time with him. Oh, wow. So he didn't shake my hand till maybe a month and a half being there. So when he finally shook my hand, I mean, it took me, I was there at the school for three months, and only three months, that same gentleman, he came to school to show me his new kicks. And this was seventh period. I had first, I had third, I have fifth and seventh period. So seventh period, he comes in and he smells like weed, and he's like, miss, look at my new kicks. And I just got him, and he's really excited, and I can smell it. I said, Why do you have weed? And he looked at me. By this time, he trusts me now. He says, Well, the godfather makes us sell two eighths in order for us to get our shoes. So I just got to sell these two eighths, and I'm good. I said, Okay, let me have them. And I told them, wait for me after school. He took me to the Godfather, and I introduced myself as a godmother, and I let him know you're the same age I am, dude, like we already went through this. What are you trying to do to these kids? From that moment on, God is good. All these kids started coming to me when they needed something. And there's a couple that, of course, like that life, and I don't judge them, because they got to do what they got to do. So what I did do is I did make myself known with the the gangs that I'm I was here for them. And coming from a gang background, you know, I understood the way that they worked. And when that happened, the Dean on Monday asked me, I heard that somebody had marijuana in the school grounds. I need to know the name. I couldn't give him the name, because if I did, I was going to lose all trust with my

Leaha Crawford 11:31
youth. Well, the other side too is, is that, since you're not a licensed professional, you're not a mandatory

Yolanda 11:36
reporter. Oh, see, well, I didn't

Leaha Crawford 11:39
know that. So because they're mandatory reporters. Okay, they're mandatory reporters. And I don't know if being in the school makes you I know the they

Yolanda 11:47
kicked me out, they kicked you out. They told me, If you can't give us the name you think you at school, that's okay,

Leaha Crawford 11:52
mandatory Yeah, because they are because and it's and it took my sister to really explain that to me, that they're mandatory reporters, and if you don't report, and if you don't tell, you can't work with the children, which is a very interesting concept, because, yeah, that's a very interesting. Mixed feelings about that,

Yolanda 12:14
though God is good, because even though they kicked me out because you said you you're gonna You can't be here because you don't want to give us the information. And I told them, If I give you the information, I lose all trust with my youth. And it took me two and a half months to get there. Like, what am I gonna do? Yeah, says, No, you can't be here if you don't give the name. Okay? So I told all the kids, I'm not gonna be able to be here anymore, but I will be at the park next door after school every single day, so you go ahead and see me here. I ended up getting kids that were coming off the bus. There was some time that I had 102 kids and no money, because as a nonprofit, I mean, I just opened it because I needed to get it open for my daughter. I didn't have any money, I didn't have any grants, but God is good, I was able to get at least five pizzas from Little Caesars and a whole bunch of waters, and we just made it work. Then the parents started seeing and parents started noticing their kids were changing their side of town, where you want the north side, north side. The school I'm talking about is JD Smith, okay, so it's a middle school, yes. And from that moment on till this day, I have four of my youth, the four guys that I was really scared they wouldn't graduate and we're really gonna be locked up or six feet under now, they're energy practitioners. I've certified them,

Leaha Crawford 13:23
yeah, no, I'm energy because I mean, and the thing is, you because I agree, but I just we agree and disagree, and we can do that, yeah, because I do. We have, I have different religious beliefs, different religious beliefs.

Yolanda 13:40
But I will say that is huge, because the universe always provides correct. It's always the way, always. You might not like the road. It's got to walk the road just got aligned with it. That's it. That's all you got to do is align, Divine Alignment. That's it. Divine Alignment. That's it. So that has no religion, because you're absolutely right. No religion, no religion, being able to to align yourself, get to know who you are, and understand that everything that happens to us, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, it has a

Leaha Crawford 14:07
purpose. It has a purpose. And actually, the bad stuff teaches you the most, yep, right there, if you allow it to, if you allow it to, but it's one of, yeah. Well, we can talk all day about that. We will be talking. We will be talking later. Yeah, because we can go into, I can take you into a whole, yeah, just whole different shadow work and so yeah, just a whole, oh yeah, oh yeah, we can talk later. It's real. Angelica, yes. How did you get involved? Yes, you said

Angelica 14:35
yes, absolutely. So, being new here in Nevada, coming from Arizona and leaving all of my people back there, right? Your your hair stylist, your nail lady, your kids, everything, everybody I knew in Arizona, right? So everybody's there. So I come here, and I really don't know anybody, and I was looking. For something to do, but mainly I was looking to fulfill my purpose, which was helping others. I am a certified medical interpreter, so I worked at the hospital. What does that mean? A certified medical interpreter means when a physician has a non English speaking patient, then I come in and bridge the gaps. Okay, communicate. Okay, so I was, I was working at the hospital. I made a few people there, great people, and I felt like I was doing my job with the community, right? I was helping communicate, and I was doing something that was fulfilling my heart a little bit. Then I started getting involved with the Latin Chamber of Commerce, and that's where I met Yolanda. And she came and talked about what she did, and something came over me, and I said, That's what I want to do. Okay, so she approached me, and she and we talked a little bit, and I said, I want to be a part of this, and how can I help? What can I do to help and be, you know, part of this movement and be able to help the community. So then we started working together, and here I am today, but what she does is definitely resonates with me, because being Latina and in my culture, there's a lot of things that we don't talk to our parents about. There's a lot of things that we just we just don't speak about. And when I met her, I thought about a moment that I had with my daughter, and at that point, I thought to myself, I am my mother, because she came to me and she's she was crying, and she says, Mom, I just can't control myself. I'm crying. I don't even know why. What's going on? I said, just, just you control your emotions. Just stop. So that was what I said, just, just let it go. You're good. And not until even maybe a few months ago, I called my daughter and I talked to her, and I said, I am so sorry, because now I'm thinking about it, and it's like, oh my gosh, what was I doing? I was being my mother. I was being my grandmother, you don't do that. You don't talk you, you, you have to have a reason for the way you feel. So I talked to her, and I said, You know what, honey, I am so sorry that I did not acknowledge your emotions, your feelings, and I'm sorry I dismissed them and and she started crying, and she says, Mom, it's okay. It happened a long time ago, but I still feel guilty about it. So these are the things that I think we can bring awareness to our community and talk to parents as well, because our children have these emotions, and our children, they need somebody they can trust. They need somebody that they can come to and they can speak about these things. If I would have been more aware or paid more attention to my daughter, I would have been able to just sit there with her and allowed her to just express herself, as opposed to dismissing it. That's

Leaha Crawford 18:21
a very that's, that's, that's actually amazing. Real quick though, they're listening to growth and grace. I am Leah Crawford, this is Julian Rosado, and today we are talking to Healing Hearts. We have Miss Yolanda and Miss Angelica. And we're talking about the agency. I thank you number one, because you're talking about things culturally, just being parents, and we were, I mean, I think about, I've been parenting now for about 30 something years, right? And social media has changed the game with parenting. And sometimes when I talk about, she's like, she's like, I don't know what you do with that, because y'all didn't have a computer in your hand exactly, and different things, and it's just the emote. I mean, parenting is different today. Absolutely, a lot different today.

Angelica 19:08
Yeah, I also have a 21 year old. He is very to himself, and he loves to play video, great games, and he's going to school. He's doing great, very responsible, but he doesn't. He's anti

Angelica 19:23
social, let's say socially awkward.

Angelica 19:28
We were talking earlier with covid, and he went to high school during covid. Was he an

Leaha Crawford 19:33
11th or 12th grade? Yes, okay, because they're, you know, they're doing a lot of studies on those 11th and 12th graders and going, oh yeah, oh really, oh

Angelica 19:43
yeah. They finding out,

Leaha Crawford 19:44
yeah, um, they're doing, let's have a conversation off air, no, because that's a that's actually they're talking about the impact of them and the social aspect. Because they are at 11, they were in 11th and 12th grade. Right? They transitioned to college, and what that just didn't have, not having those experiences, and what the impact can have. Because I Dave deeper, I was talking to a few PhD students from different schools, and we were talking about, well, what about the younger children? They was like, Well, no, they'll get a chance to reassimilate, because they'll get back into a normal right? But that 11th and those 11th and 12th graders might not. And I was like, Well, did y'all do the the junior and senior college students too? Because it was a change for them. But they were like, no, they already had the healthy graduation and just all the things these

Yolanda 20:35
kids missed prom, they missed all of their the things that missed a lot of the

Angelica 20:38
social activities. They missed a lot of the social activities.

Angelica 20:41
Imagine the games, the football games, the everything that these kids look forward to on their Fridays, right? But, yeah, my son now is very to himself, very like you said, socially awkward, but he's okay. He likes it that way, and I understand him, and I understand why he does what he's supposed to do, but he comes home, and that's his, his face. So,

Leaha Crawford 21:04
you know, I have a rule in my house, right? Because, you know, no door in my house. See, I walk in bathrooms, naked, everything. Hey, I need to see for that. And it wasn't actually for that reason, but I guess it was for that reason. I need to see. We need to talk what's going on, right? You need to talk to me. I pop up at school, I'm at friends houses, but I don't know your parents. You can't go. I don't care. I don't care about everybody can

Yolanda 21:26
be mad. That's how we were raised. That's how we

Leaha Crawford 21:29
were raised. No, he was at my house one day. He was sitting there. He was like, I know you hate that your mother is

Julian Rosado 21:36
being in school. Your mom's here again.

Yolanda 21:40
No, you know, my mom growing up, I used to teach school, and I did exactly what she did to me, but I she went to one of my classes dressed as horrible as you can imagine, horrible. So she's, she comes into my third period class, and that was the only class I would go to, because it was music, and she just sat there and she was knitting. And people are like, Who's that lady with? I mean, she dressed the worst she could. So now my girls are in high school. I'm having a situation with my girls. I'm like, you don't want to cut school because I'm gonna go to your school, and you ain't gonna like it if I go to your school,

Leaha Crawford 22:10
so you're gonna laugh at this. So my daughter went to LVA, and I, I can say I had no issues from my daughter, and it was because I would my office is up the street, and I put a clown uniform in my office. I said, because if you act up at the corner, I'm gonna put on a uniform and I'm gonna come down there and we gonna, we just all go acting. And she now, she looks at it, she was like, I never gave you any problems. I was like, You're right. You didn't, but she didn't, because of, I mean, but we always were able to have healthy conversations. I didn't discount her feelings, because it was always just me and her so and sometimes I thought it was unhealthy, because she was the person I talked to,

Yolanda 22:58
but she could talk. My girls were having, they were trying to hang out with the wrong crowd. So I had to come in with a skirt and some chunk glass and my hair and curlers and looking a real mess and going in and sitting and giving them a kiss on the forehead and said, I'm gonna be right here. They never again wanted to go out with that crowd. But that's those are the type of things I encourage people to

Leaha Crawford 23:18
do. But that's the thing, though, because parenting is not, I mean, I think about parenting is just, it's, it's no handbook, nope. There's no one size fits all, nope. It is a plan, do and review. Okay, well, that didn't work it, but it is about really talking to your

Yolanda 23:32
children. See, now these parents nowadays want to be friends before their parents, and that's where, that's where we have some issues.

Julian Rosado 23:38
Yeah, I have a friend like that. You know, are you doing? Man, like, oh yeah, we're, we're best friends. I was like, hmm,

Yolanda 23:45
and it's okay, Luna, like, I tell my daughters when we're gonna have a conversation, I'm like, Are you speaking to Mom or your friend? Because you need to know what you're what you're gonna get. But what I mean is, there's kids out there that they think it's cool too. The parents are like, Okay, well, you smoke weed, let's smoke weed together, or let's go drinking together, and they're 1617, years old, and that's the issues that that we deal with.

Leaha Crawford 24:06
Yeah, because I think that there are a whole bunch of viewpoints on that, and I think they're, they're different viewpoints on that.

Yolanda 24:12
See, the relationship is healthy. Being a friend, to your family, to your kids, it's healthy. They need that. They need to know they can come to you. So, okay, go ahead, let's talk

Julian Rosado 24:22
about it. I think that works, because if you're like, Oh, I think older, you know what, I mean that to me, I think, I think,

Leaha Crawford 24:32
no, I don't think it's wrong. I think that there needs to be healthy boundaries, yes, and it needs to be a level of respect. Yes, you need to know that you can come talk to me about anything, and I am not going to go off and chop your head off. So you need to feel safe in the environment. I don't know if I am their friend. They can be trusting me as a friend. I don't know if I'm my child's friend, though, because it's not reciprocal. Gated, because I'm not talking to them about the stuff that's going on, right, right? Because you don't that's different. Yes, you don't have the life your experience. You're right to really talk to me about what's going on. So you're right. We just become friends, because that's that could really be crucial, if you start trying to be a friend and say your business to your kids, and now they got an issue, and that's the concern. But what I can tell you is, is that full disclosure, because I had me and my daughter for years, had this tumult because she thought her she should have had a different childhood, until she realized she was like, oh my god, OMG. And now she was like, ah, Dave, I'm coming out. There no Slow down. Slow down, you know. But what I can say is, no matter how you because I know the best of parents whose children went haywire, yep, I know some that weren't around, whose children are very good. Yep, I think it's situational and you really have because each child parenting is different. It is for each individual child.

Yolanda 25:55
It is, it is the the gentleman that I told you about that would hang himself. His parents were alcoholics and people in the street, so of course, if they don't have the time for him, he was trying to get attention by hanging himself in the closet, you know. So there's times that these parents that want to be friends, they want to be friends in the wrong way, like, if you come out and do the things I'm doing, then we can talk. So what we do with Healing Hearts is we become that that parent or that person that they want to speak to. I have all my kids call me mom. I've never told none of them to call me Mom, because that's not my place at the school when they would see me, you know, I would have teachers say, Why are they calling you mom? When I finally asked the question to them, Why are you calling me mom? They said, because you talk to me and you love me like a mom. So I started writing down what it was that I was that I was talking to these kids about, and it was basically just hugging them. We we lost the we're de sanitizing from personal touch. It's like, you know, when covid came, yeah, we couldn't touch or hug anybody. But, oh, so many people suffered from depression at that moment. And so covid

Leaha Crawford 26:59
area, what we found was especially in my household, they can't my children came across the country. It was funny because they called me when covid started, and they're like, You got the house. We're in this little apartment. We're coming to stay with you, because everything is online. When I tell you was the best time of my life, I lost. I mean, we cooking, cleaning, laughing, joking, partying, doing yoga. Are we just doing everything? It was I enjoy. I said I enjoy covid. You know what I did too? I did. I mean, I did because I got a chance to reconnect. I was working,

Leaha Crawford 27:36
and I know, for some people, you know, I was still standoffish, you know, but not in the house, but

Yolanda 27:41
it was peaceful. You know what? I think that that was a moment that we got to know our family, because everybody was so busy that that's the moment people really started getting to know who their spouse was, what their kids were up to, because there was nothing else to do but get to know your

Leaha Crawford 27:55
family, but to get to know and look in the mirror. Yep, I had a good time. No, we had, I could show you pictures. You'll be like, yeah, we're doing what we were doing, home projects. We were putting up lights, cleaning out closets, painting. We had, yeah, we did. We needed that. We for us. We needed that because we needed that reset. We needed that reset. Well, ladies, I want to tell you thank you. Thank you. Well, we didn't get contact information this whole show. Oh, contact information for healing

Yolanda 28:21
hearts. It's Healing Hearts movement@yahoo.com, that's our email address, our email address, but we are on Facebook. We are on Instagram. Is Healing Hearts movement. Healing Hearts movement. So it's a movement, it's a movement, it's a movement.

Julian Rosado 28:34
We are somebody wants to come down and participate,

Yolanda 28:36
if I can just say something really quick that I wanted to talk about, because I think it's important, and it's the LISI bench movement that's the whites. We're Healing Hearts movement. We're creating a movement where we're putting a bench, a purple bench, into the schools. Our first bench is at futures edge Academy. This bench is in memory of my niece that committed suicide five years ago. This was in her heart. She would always say, Auntie, you need to teach these kids how to deal with their emotions. They need to understand who they are. She suffered from depression. She ended up shooting herself. And now that I don't have her, it's like right here, as soon as I lost her the what was the first thing I heard was teach the youth how to be able to control their their emotions. So we're doing that. I'm going

Leaha Crawford 29:15
to bring you back on because we're gonna have some more conversations about that and around that and and let's talk about it, all right. So that brings us to the end of the show. I am Leah Crawford. This is Julian Rosado, and you have been listening to growth and grace, and we just introduced you to Healing Hearts. And you'll hear more from these ladies in the future as we get through this holiday season and next year. And how little I mean, little things you can do to help the youth in your family. So until next week, peace and blessings. Y'all Bye, and I'm say, Go Eagles. Go Eagles. You.

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