As a licensed psychotherapist, wellness coach, consultant, educator, and speaker, Rita Phetmixay's work is deeply rooted in transformative justice, liberation, and anti-oppressive practices. It is their goal to collaborate with individuals and communities to co-create safe spaces where folx can flourish in their authenticity. Rita has facilitated a number of holistic mental health and wellness workshops and trainings for student groups at higher educational institutions and community-based organizations across the nation. Their own experiences of forced resilience and coming to their own terms of healing intergenerational trauma bring greater understanding of how to connect to each of these identity groups, as well as the great honor on how to support them achieve joy and ultimate liberation.

In this episode, Aleena Inthaly (former Legacies of War Chief of Staff and creator of Thip Khao Talk Podcast) and Kadiatou Toure (2023 University of Dayton Human Rights Fellow with Legacies of War) sit down with Rita to discuss how their journey led them to where they are today, understanding intergenerational trauma, and how to heal from the wounds of war.

Theme song by ⁠Lao Jazzanova⁠

Learn more about Healing Out Lao'd: https://healingoutlaod.org/
Learn more about Legacies of War: https://www.legaciesofwar.org/