How would you cope with a death threat on your family?
And as a consequence you might move houses, careers and even countries to find safety. As Kenny did. And yet safety is also an internal emotional feeling that has to be witnessed, held and expressed to make sense and find a home.
Kenny Mammarella D-Cruz returns to the Soulhubbers Podcast, this time with Carmen Rendell to share his personal journey of escaping to refugee camps in Italy and the UK, away from Idi Amin’s dictatorship of Uganda and finally to the remote Welsh town of Fishguard.
He talks into how, as a 60 year old, the stories he puts to feelings still spook him. How he falls apart and comes together again and again. He shares intimate details of how he’s finding tools through his life, such as breathing and deeper self understanding to let go of his unhealthy mental and physical coping mechanisms.
We talk about suicide, feeling feelings and trauma, and how he gets to his golden shadow, via the dark shadow.
Kenny very much follows in the community sharing as his father did when he first arrived in the UK.
He brought hockey here, he took it to school, so now it's a big deal in the area. He used to play hockey for Uganda. He started the Friendship Circle for older and lonely people. I think that was 30 years ago. He started a charity. He started and was the first Goan Mayor in the UK, and in the year, the bicentenary of the last invasion of Britain, which was our town.
It’s a beautifully insightful sharing of how ‘doing the work’ can change you and enables you to go on to work and support others go through their life challenges, trauma and dark nights of the soul.
Click here to find out more about MenSpeak and AllGenderSpeak Groups that Kenny and other trained facilitator’s hold over Christmas period and throughout the year. They’re held online on a daily basis including Christmas Day and New Years Day.
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