Talking With Umaa

health, fitness, mental, society, culture, philosophy, education · EN

Talking With Umaa is the curious corner: a warm, honest space for what's hard to put into words.I'm Umaa Thampu, a Gestalt psychotherapist working at the intersection of therapy,identity, culture and power. Each episode is one unhurried conversation with apractitioner, writer, scholar or artist whose thinking changes how we understandthe inner life — and what history, race, class, migration, queerness and power aredoing inside it.This is not a therapy-advice show. There are no tips and no quick fixes. It is athinking space. My guests bring the concepts they have built and the language theyhave made for their own work. We put those concepts inside the systems they camefrom, look at where those systems hold people and where they fail them, and thenI ask the harder question: where does this idea falter, and who isn't held by it?We return again and again to the body — to what happens in you when race, power orconflict enters the room, and what it takes to stay present in a diff