Collected Item: “Veronica Pryor-Faciane Oral History, 2022/05/26”
Title
Veronica Pryor-Faciane
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Veronica Pryor-Faciane
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#adenomyosis, #affirmations, #antibodies, #Baptist, #Baton-Rouge, #Black, #children, #colonics, #COVID+, #depression, #education, #fibromyalgia, #gratitude, #hospitalization, #hugs, #laughter, #lifecoach, #Louisiana, #LPC, #media, #mindset, #monkeypox, #motherhood, #nurse, #oxygen, #race, #racism, #religion, #resilience, #schooling, #selflessness, #spirituality, #suicidality, #swab, #symptoms, #thriving, #trauma, #ventilator
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Baton-Rouge, LA
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
She/Her
What is the age of the interviewee?
45 to 54
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
African American
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Generational trauma.
Surviving 28 years of incest, and spiritual, financial, and mental abuse; going through the trauma of the pandemic after experiences of past trauma; truth-telling; publicly sharing one’s story and mental health activism.
The physical impact of emotional stress.
Coping mechanisms; history of suicide attempts.
Learning self-love; reparenting oneself; letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable.
Working as an auditor in the school system pre-pandemic.
Training as a Licensed Professional Counselor; transitioning careers to being Social, Emotional, and Learning Specialist in the school.
Getting sick in December 2019 and still being sick in February 2020; losing sense of smell in March 2020; being hospitalized and going on a ventilator.
The kindness of a nurse and nurse’s assistance while hospitalized alone.
Returning home and continuing to isolate; masking in the house; going back to the hospital again.
Coming to peace with the possibility of transitioning/passing; worrying about surviving children.
Donating antibodies to help others; giving blood more often after this experience.
Long-COVID.
The news and the media’s impact on mental health.
Having four children; their distinct reactions to the pandemic; their pandemic concerns; online education.
One teenage son’s mental health in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd; son hospitalized for depression.
Fearing for the safety of Black sons.
Open discussions with children about mental health and suicidal ideations.
Diagnosis with fibromyalgia and surgery; mindset and healing; gratitude as medicine.
Living in a state with a lot of [chemical] plants and high cancer rates.
Listening to children’s feelings and validating their feelings about COVID more than talking.
Lack of childcare; putting cameras in the house after returning to work to watch kids; taking a child to work.
Raised as a Baptist and moving to spirituality, prayer, and meditation; astrology, chakras, and crystals.
Friends dividing over politics.
Intentionality, living in the present, patience; morning grounding rituals; breathing.
Healing ourselves as a way of healing the world.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHjLK6EvwUMZAaCXqcpjkw
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gods-diamond-in-the-rough-veronica-pryor-faciane/1130806637
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/restructuring-negative-thoughts-mindfulness-veronica/id1407446654?i=1000448505268
https://www.newidlifecoaching.com
Generational trauma.
Surviving 28 years of incest, and spiritual, financial, and mental abuse; going through the trauma of the pandemic after experiences of past trauma; truth-telling; publicly sharing one’s story and mental health activism.
The physical impact of emotional stress.
Coping mechanisms; history of suicide attempts.
Learning self-love; reparenting oneself; letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable.
Working as an auditor in the school system pre-pandemic.
Training as a Licensed Professional Counselor; transitioning careers to being Social, Emotional, and Learning Specialist in the school.
Getting sick in December 2019 and still being sick in February 2020; losing sense of smell in March 2020; being hospitalized and going on a ventilator.
The kindness of a nurse and nurse’s assistance while hospitalized alone.
Returning home and continuing to isolate; masking in the house; going back to the hospital again.
Coming to peace with the possibility of transitioning/passing; worrying about surviving children.
Donating antibodies to help others; giving blood more often after this experience.
Long-COVID.
The news and the media’s impact on mental health.
Having four children; their distinct reactions to the pandemic; their pandemic concerns; online education.
One teenage son’s mental health in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd; son hospitalized for depression.
Fearing for the safety of Black sons.
Open discussions with children about mental health and suicidal ideations.
Diagnosis with fibromyalgia and surgery; mindset and healing; gratitude as medicine.
Living in a state with a lot of [chemical] plants and high cancer rates.
Listening to children’s feelings and validating their feelings about COVID more than talking.
Lack of childcare; putting cameras in the house after returning to work to watch kids; taking a child to work.
Raised as a Baptist and moving to spirituality, prayer, and meditation; astrology, chakras, and crystals.
Friends dividing over politics.
Intentionality, living in the present, patience; morning grounding rituals; breathing.
Healing ourselves as a way of healing the world.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHjLK6EvwUMZAaCXqcpjkw
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gods-diamond-in-the-rough-veronica-pryor-faciane/1130806637
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/restructuring-negative-thoughts-mindfulness-veronica/id1407446654?i=1000448505268
https://www.newidlifecoaching.com
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-05-26T13:07