#10 Jermaine Omoregie - 2/2 Co-host of Thinking Out Loud Podcast

Bereavement Room

Today I am joined by 2/2 Co-hosts of Thinking Out Loud Podcast, Jermaine Omoregie.

Thinking Out Loud is a podcast that explores the unspoken truths about grief, mental health, masculinity and much more from the perspective of Black British male voices.

Representation in the bereavement and grief space is very low so when i stumbled across Jermaine and Ben I just knew I had to get them in the room.

Jermaine joins Callsuma to talk about his mum who died in Nigeria whilst on holiday in 2015, he opens up about the impact grief has had on him reflecting on the flight back to the U.K after having laid his mum to rest.

We discuss faith and cultural traditions, sometimes cultural traditions can be problematic, is it time to make them redundant and what challenges might come with having this conversation carefully noting that faith and culture are not the same thing.

Jermaine reflects it is important to choose carefully who to be vulnerable with as not everyone in our environment has the capacity to hold a safe space, that sometimes there is a conditioning and ego when it comes to being open with male emotions.

Today's food for thought, are our white counterparts better at talking about their emotions in comparison to black and brown communities?

This is something we have explored in series 1 that has popped up again. You might want to consider the following aspects culture, systemic racism, faith, heritage, lack of opportunities and representation, as well as poor access to therapy and mental health support.

You can listen to Thinking Out Loud Podcast on Spotify or Google.

You can also find Thinking Out Loud on instagram.

As always thank you for listening.

Your host

Callsuma Ali