Unspeakable Leadership

← Unspeakable Leadership13 Nov 2025 · 52 min

Decolonizing Mental Health By Returning to Your Body

Decolonizing Mental Health By Returning to Your Body13 Nov 202552 min

The answers you’ve been searching for have been living in your body all along.

In this conversation with Kay Thellot, an ethnotherapist and founder of Prensip Minokan, we explore what it means to decolonize mental health and its role in our leadership journey. Remembering that our healing isn’t something we have to earn, it’s something we return to. Kay shares with Rohene Bouajram how reconnecting with ancestral practices, movement, and the quiet wisdom of the body helps us reclaim the parts of ourselves that colonial systems taught us to silence.

We talk about how fear can look like excitement, what it means to cross the line back to your true self, and why the body is both archive and compass for women of colour reclaiming their power in leadership roles.

Connect with Kay:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kay-thellot-0300aa251](http://linkedin.com/in/kay-thellot-0300aa251)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prensip.minokan/?hl=en

Website: https://www.prensipminokan.com/

Connect with Rohene:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohenebouajram/

Website www.rohenebouajram.com

Access resources to redefine your leadership: https://www.rohenebouajram.com/resources

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OyBTHVaCa2o?si=FclnHElQovw5YCUG