Farrah DJ

10/09/2026

The return of Deep Talks on Sunday, 6th September was a beautiful, intimate and nourishing affair.

I’m most grateful, to the Psychotherapists for their time, energy, and for the creation of a safe space:

Martina Jean Jacques for leading the reflective session where guests were able to talk about their experiences, and for sharing her insights and experience as part of the panel discussion.

Paul Moody for his wisdom, insights and warmth as a panellist (what stood out was him highlighting the need for inner work) and support for the event.

And Rebecca Infanti-Milne for her raw honesty around her work on anti-racism which yielded a palpable healing moment for one of the guests.

We’re also grateful to the support team, Donna St Paul and Antoinnette Kudjo-Flood and of course to all those who attended, for their presence, vulnerability, energy and inspiring feedback.

Big thanks to Mama Ky's Caribbean Soulfood or the food and kind hospitality and Bread and Butter Lounge for the beautiful space.

The event was enough and it was love - you know?

More event content to follow…✨

Photo credit: Sherifah Scott

06/09/2026

📣Today’s the day

Join Reflections on Racism: A therapeutic space for Black people.

Racism and its enactment is on the rise - sadly. And with research (and a recent personal experience) identifying that exposure to racism has an impact on both the mind and the body over time, is there anything that those impacted can do toto help heal this trauma and obtain support during this time?

Talking about it and emotional processing helps as I have witnessed and experienced as a trainee counselling therapist and as a client in therapy. As does being in community, supportive, therapeutic spaces and cultivating joy. This is why I have curated the following intimate event with therapists for Black people:

Event Details:
Date: 6th September 2026
Time: 3pm - 10pm
Location: Bread and Butter Lounge Shoreditch, London
Entrance: from £11 via Eventbrite here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-talks-on-racism-what-does-it-feel-like-tickets-1997831131695

Caribbean food will also be available to purchase at the venue.

What to expect:
- A reflective session with Psychotherapist, Martina Jean-Jacques
- A panel discussion on the psychology of racism, with Martina Jean-Jacques, Paul Moody and Rebecca Infanti-Milne
- Afro, Soulful and Deep House DJ sets to process the energy of the discussion through the body and to evoke hope and joy!

Please note:
As this event space is on the first floor, it may be inaccessible to those with mobility issues.
Based on feedback, this event has been designed to create psychological safety for Black people, Future events will be curated to include people from other ethnicities and heritages. 🙏🏾🤎

03/09/2026

Introducing the third and final panellist: Rebecca Infanti-Milne who joins for the panel discussion on the psychology of racism.

I feel the need to tell you why I invited Rebecca, a White woman. I met her several weeks ago and her passion for anti-racism struck me in that it didn’t come from a place of guilt or it being the “fashionable’ thing to do, but instead from a it’s simply the right thing to do. A humane thing to do. As racial tensions rise, experiencing people like her provides a glimmer of hope.

There’s a quote by Talib Kwali that embodies what I am saying: “White supremacy won’t die until white people see it as a white issue that white people need to solve and not a Black issue we need to empathise with.” (How does this statement impact you, what does it make you feel, and can you be with it and not act out?)

Rebecca is a Principle Systemic Psychotherapist and Treatment Team Manager for the NHS where she works with children, young people and families needing mental health support. She has previously provided extensive case consultation to Child Protection Teams and has supported several Local Authorities in using systemic ideas in practice whilst offering training to social workers, to include consultant Social Workers and student Social Workers, and Therapists.

Rebecca is also a registered Social Worker, Clinical Supervisor, is trained in EDMR and working with trauma, and has a small private practice. To support the treatment of trauma somatically, she is also a trained Yoga therapist.

Passionate about anti-racist practice, Rebecca is committed to the lifelong work required to act in ways that challenge white privilege, white supremacy and white fragility. This includes working as the anti-racism lead in her current role and running anti-racism learning spaces.

Event Details:
Reflections on Racism for Black People
📆 Sunday, 6th September 2026
🕡 3pm - 10pm
📍Bread & Butter Lounge, 72 Rivington Street
🎟️ from £11 via Eventbrite. Ticket link in bio and below
 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-talks-on-racism-what-does-it-feel-like-tickets-1997831131695

We hope to see you there.

30/08/2026

Meet our second panellist for the panel discussion on the psychology of racism and its impact and therapeutic support for those affected.

Paul Moody is a counsellor, psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor with two private practices in South and West London. He is Lead Supervisory Counsellor at Lasting Support, delivering Art and Play Therapy to children and young people who are survivors of domestic violence, and a core member of the National Award-winning Sporting Souls project, which combines group therapy with structured physical training to support young men at risk.

His work also spans counter-terrorism and Prevent initiatives, school-based group programmes, and clinical supervision for postgraduate counsellors and residential care practitioners. Drawing on an integrative therapeutic approach, Paul brings decades of expertise to the wellbeing of vulnerable young people and the professionals who support them.

Event Details:
Deep Talks & Deep Beats: Reflections on Racism for Black People -
📆 Sunday, 6th September 2026
🕡 3pm - 10pm
📍Bread & Butter Lounge, 72 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY
🎟️ from £11 via Eventbrite. Ticket link in bio and below
 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-talks-on-racism-what-does-it-feel-like-tickets-1997831131695
 
What to expect:
⁃  A reflective session with a Psychotherapist
⁃  A panel discussion and Q&A on the psychology of racism and how you can support yourself
⁃  Deep, Soulful and Afro House DJ sets to process the energy of the discussion through the body and to evoke hope and joy!
 
🍴You’ll also be able to buy Caribbean food by Mama Ky's Caribbean Soulfood at the event.

We hope to see you there.





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28/08/2026

Caption - check out intro in slides 1 and 2 which includes musing of archetypal death and life forces at play on world stage with much seemingly pointing toward a death drive. This set was/is dedicated to evoking life force.

Thoroughly enjoyed playing this set. Played some stuff I’ve had for ages but not yet played.
I’ve listened to it a few times already which says a lot!
My dad also tapped his foot, nodded his head and downloaded a few tracks whilst listening to it which also says a lot! (He’s Jamaican [if you know, you know])!

Tracks:
Slides 1-2: Intro
Slide 3-4: Sweet (Original Mix) by Keita Sano
Slide 5: Sweet (Original Mix) by Keita Sano X Pain & Pleasure (Original Mix) by Roberta feat. Lady Blacktronika
Slide 6: Sho Nuff (Original Mix) by Roberta Roberta
Slide 7: Merkin (Original Mix) by Andy Hart
Slide 8: Merkin (Original Mix) by Andy Hart X Black Sands (Original Mix) by Norm Talley II
Slide 9: ON (Original Mix) by Norm Talley
Slide 10: Free (Original Mix) by Nina Kraviz , Raphael M

Blah blah blah

23/08/2026

There is much said in academia about the psychological meaning and impact of racism that does not make it out of these realms to inform policy, education and support those impacted by racism.

Following on from my psychosomatic experience that inspired this event, I undertook some research to understand the physiological impact of racism. This 2022 paper on “The enduring effects of racism on health: Understanding direct and indirect effects over time” by Sarah Stopforth and Laia Becares from King’s College London, UK, and Dharmi Kapadia and James Nazroo from the University of Manchester, UK caught my attention and spoke to my experience.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827322001963

For those impacted by racism, yes our external environment is causal, but is there anything we can do to heal the wounding racism causes and obtain/provide necessary support around this?

Talking about it and emotional processing is helpful, I have seen and experienced. As is being in community, supportive, therapeutic spaces …and cultivating joy:

Deep Talks & Deep Beats - Reflections on Racism: what does it feel like?
📆 6th September 2026
🕡 3pm - 10pm
📍Bread & Butter Lounge, 72 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY
🎟️ from £11 via Eventbrite. Link in bio and below:
🍴You’ll also be able to buy Caribbean food at the venue.

The event will include:
- A reflective session with a Psychotherapist
- A panel discussion on the psychology of racism
- DJ sets to process the energy of the discussion through the body and to evoke hope and joy!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-talks-on-racism-what-does-it-feel-like-tickets-1997831131695

I hope to see you some of you there! Please feel free to share.

16/08/2026

The subject matter for this Deep Talk event emerged a few weeks ago from my reflections and stark realisations on the harmful impact of racism and anti-Black sentiment on the mind and bodies of Black people.

I wanted (felt a need) to create a psycholgically safe space for us to talk about the impact and raise awareness on the types of therapeutic support available especially as racist tensions/enactments increase. Triggered by subsequent experiences, the audience for this event evolved and with that a recognition around a duty of care around what it means to create a safe space. In support of this, the upcoming event has been curated specifically for Black people/people of African decent.

🫧 Event Details:
📆 6th September 2026
🕡 3pm - 10pm
📍Bread & Butter Lounge, 1st Floor
🎟️ from £11 via Eventbrite. Link in bio/in comment section.
🍴You’ll also be able to buy Caribbean food at the venue.

Please bring ID.

🫧 What to expect:
* Reflective Session - a space to talk about and reflect on the psychological, emotional and physical impact of racism with Psychotherapist Martina Jean-Jaques

* Panel Discussion - on the psychology of racism and tools for support, healing and wellbeing with a collection of Psychotherapists

* DJ Sets - playing deep emotive and uplifting beats to evoke a sense of joy and wellbeing through dance

🫧 Accessibility:
The intimate space I’ve decided to use is on the first floor with no lift which may impact those with mobility issues. I apologise for any disappointment this may cause, and will be looking to secure ground floor/accessible spaces for some of my future events based on how well this one goes.

11/08/2026

A few months ago I had to travel outside of London on a couple of occasions and I felt a sense of fear and terror at the prospect of leaving the familiar multiculturalism of London. One included going to go to a rural town that is mostly White. Now, I’m not saying the town shouldn’t be mostly White, but my terror as I had to arrange connections and taxis, was around how they might be toward me as a human being that has been racially categorised as “Black”, particularly as racists have and are becoming more and more emboldened in these times.

I developed a really bad cold and cough - like it was really, really bad. I experienced the usual enactment of the programming that equates black with thief, but it wasn’t until my train pulled into London, Kings Cross that something major happened. My violent cough abated which I correlated with the relief of returning to the familiar and relative safety of London. It was here that I starkly realised the physiological impact that racism has on its objects and what this means for our health and wellbeing in the short, medium and long term. It took me days to process through the terror - I barely wanted to leave my home.

Through this I concluded that racism is an existential threat, an act of terrorism, and a weapon of mass destruction.

But racism is not just about White peoples against Black and Brown people/people of colour. Calling out the proverbial elephant in the room based on recent experiences I have had with Asian (maybe Chinese) women, there is also the facticity of anti-Blackness and anti-dark skinnedness and the ways in which this is enacted by people of colour.

As things progress with my therapy training, holding the tension between the joy around this and the pain and hurt and fear of racism (as well the distress of the anti-life actions around the world) has felt/feels difficult to balance at times.

I am grateful to encounter human beings who are doing the inner work to undo the programming of racism whether as victim and/or perpetrator as well as engage in activism (of which the inner work forms a part). This has helped and helps.

20/07/2026

Life eh…?

As always, ’twas great to back in the Bloop studios with The Church of Deep House radio show after a few months out with counselling training.

Here are a few snippets from the radio show which I feel grateful and proud to have had selected as a “top pick” for the week by Bloop!

The show is now available for playback on Soundcloud and Mixcloud - enjoy should you choose to listen xo

https://on.soundcloud.com/Q5FmMmicXOPScFtjzA

https://www.mixcloud.com/blooplondon/the-church-of-deep-house-w-alt-her-100726-bloop-london-radio-20260710-110001/

Slide Track IDs:
1. Stillike (Original Mix) by Baaz
2. Greenpass (Dana Ruh Remix) by David Durango
3. Flat Lining (Original Mix) by Two Armadillos Giles Smith
4. Flat Lining (Original Mix) by Two Armadillos X Vattenfall my A (Molly Remix) by Dana Ruh
5. Vattenfall my A (Molly Remix) by Dana Ruh
6. Vattenfall my A (Molly Remix) by Dana Ruh X Cosmic Rituals (Original Mix) by Patrice Scott
7. Cosmic Rituals (Original Mix) by Patrice Scott





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