From Root to Bone with Dr. Jenn Mullan

Decolonizing Therapy
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From Root To Bone is the podcast for people who are parched, poised and primed to rehydrate our souls and do some unlearning. A place where Dr. Jenn unlocks the gates and has real ass conversations with elders, teachers and her intellectual crushes, folks doing the real ass work towards reclaiming the juiciest parts of our ancestry, history, collective health and liberation. Dr. Jenn, The Rage Doctor, and Founder of Decolonizing Therapy continues to shift the mental health paradigm on its head with her realness, vulnerability and 25 + years of experience as a clinical psychologist, community

  1. 3D AGO

    The Marrow of Apocalyptic Grief w/ Lama Rod Owens

    n this deeply expansive and soul-stirring conversation, Dr. Jennifer Mullan welcomes renowned Buddhist teacher, author, and activist Lama Rod Owens to From Root to Bone. Together, they explore what it means to live, love, and lead from the marrow—where truth, grief, joy, and liberation all coexist. From reflections on spiritual lineage and ancestral connection to the radical act of choosing joy in a world shaped by systemic harm, this episode invites listeners into a layered dialogue on healing, responsibility, and becoming. Lama Rod shares insights from his journey through Buddhism, activism, and personal transformation, emphasizing the importance of sitting with discomfort, embracing brokenheartedness, and turning pain into medicine. Dr. Mullan and Lama Rod also unpack the tension between collective liberation and individual healing, the myth of “goodness” as a tool of control, and the necessity of play, pleasure, and vulnerability in movement work. Through stories, laughter, and truth-telling, they offer a powerful reminder: we are not just here to survive—we are here to feel, to connect, and to live fully. This episode is an invitation to soften, to listen deeply, and to remember that even in collapse, joy is not a betrayal—it is a practice of freedom. Connect with Lama Rod Owens - http://www.lamarod.com/

    1h 46m

  2. APR 8

    The Marrow of Pleasure and Power w/ Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke Carnagie

    Dr. Jennifer Mullan sits down with sexologist Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clark Carnegie for a powerful conversation on decolonizing sexuality, reclaiming the erotic as power, and healing beyond Western frameworks. Together, they explore pleasure, trauma, ancestral wisdom, and the radical act of imagining new ways of being. This episode is an invitation to reconnect with your body, your joy, and your liberation. Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke Carnagie, PhD, MSW, MEd, is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, as well as a loveologist, cultural and clinical sexologist, Africa-centered social worker, anti-racist sexuality educator, decolonial eroticologist, decolonizing autoethnographer, and consultant. Dr. Hepworth Clarke is the first Jamerican (Jamaican-American) to earn three degrees in Sexuality Studies from accredited universities in the United States: a Bachelor of Arts from NYU in Sexuality, Culture, and Oppression (2007); a Master of Education in Human Sexuality (2012); and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Human Sexuality (2015) from the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Dr. Hepworth Clarke is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. They are a graduate of the National Academy for African-Centered Social Work, the International School of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in Brazil, and the Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School in Barcelona, Catalonia. They co-founded the anti-racist decolonial sexuality studies program at Goddard College and co-created the Decolonial Sexual Attitude Restructuring/Reassessment (D-SAR), a sexuality training program that helps participants examine the impact of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy on sex, gender, and relational dynamics. As the director of The Pluriversity LLC, Dr. Hepworth Clarke offers decolonial guidance services, love education, consulting, and counseling with a commitment to increasing sexual multiepistemic literacy, erotic sovereignty, and sensual justice. Their work centers communities of the African diaspora, along with kinky, non-monogamous, queer, gender-expansive, and erotically marginalized populations. Dr. Hepworth Clarke’s approach integrates anti-erotophobic, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered approaches to support individuals and communities through transformative processes related to intimacy, eroticism, gender, sexuality, pleasure, and relationships. More information can be found at www.zelaika.com

    1h 24m

  3. MAR 23

    The Marrow of Somatic Healing w/ Nazbah Tom and Fayza Bundalli

    Dr. Jennifer Mullan sits with somatic practitioners Nazbah Tom and Fayza Bundalli to explore healing through the body, ancestry, and collective liberation. Together they unpack burnout, nervous system wisdom, cultural lineage, and everyday resilience practices. This grounding conversation invites listeners to reconnect with embodied knowing and imagine more liberated futures.Nazbah Tom (Dene) is a somatic practitioner based near Tkaronto (Toronto), living and working on Mohawk and Anishinaabe lands. They offer one-to-one healing work, lead small groups, teach and supervise practitioners, and support community skill-building rooted in embodiment and cultural wisdom. Nazbah is also passionate about woodcraft, hiking, boxing, reading, and writing as pathways of creative expression and restoration. Fayza Bundalli is a queer South Asian femme, mother, somatic therapist, and bodyworker. She supervises queer and trans BIPOC practitioners, teaches in collaboration with generative somatics educators, and offers healing spaces that support collective aliveness, dignity, and liberation. Her work centers the impacts of systemic oppression on the body and supports people in building nourishing relationships and meaningful contributions to their communities.Connect with Nazbah and Fayza - www.fayzabundalli.com - https://instagram.com/somaticswithnazbah

    1h 39m

  4. MAR 9

    The Marrow of Radical Queerness w/ Robert Downes

    When white queerness can't always be trusted to keep in line with collective liberation, where do you turn? In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Mullen sits down with psychotherapist and writer Robert Downes for a powerful conversation about resistance, Black feminist thought, and the work of decolonizing therapy and the psyche. Together they explore rage, care, ancestry, and what it means to live and act with integrity in a world shaped by colonialism and racial capitalism. This episode invites listeners to transform grief and discomfort into deeper connection, truth-telling, and collective action. Robert Downes is a psychotherapist, supervisor, teacher, and writer whose work explores the intersections of psychotherapy, decolonial thought, and psychosocial practice. Drawing from a range of critical traditions, Robert’s work challenges dominant therapeutic frameworks while centering relational, cultural, and political dimensions of healing. Rooted in his Irish ancestral lineage and informed by Black feminist scholarship and abolitionist practice, Robert’s work examines how colonialism, racial capitalism, and social power shape psychic and relational life. His approach to therapy and teaching often centers what he calls “disruptive therapeutics,” a practice that interrogates institutional norms while creating space for truth-telling, care, and collective liberation. Connect with Robert - https://bodypsychotherapyinlondon.com/ Want to read the books suggested in this episode? Get them at the Decolonizing Therapy bookshop - https://bookshop.org/lists/from-root-to-bone-read-along

    1h 25m

  5. FEB 23

    The Marrow of Ancestral & Celestial Intelligence w/ Jen Maramba and Natoya Hall

    As Black and Brown descendants of people who survived through religious colonization, getting back to the spiritual practices and wisdom of those in our lineages can seem scary. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with practitioners of ancestral healing, Natoya Hall and Jen Maramba, to bring more lightness to spiritual wisdom lost to us. Natoya is a multidimensional healer, channel and spiritual teacher with over two decades of experience walking the path of soul remembrance and energetic mastery. Her work weaves ancestral wisdom, galactic consciousness, and soul alchemy to activate the new HUman codes of healing and rooted in the wisdom of her ancestral lineage and attuned to the frequencies of galactic consciousness, Natoya weaves timelines, dimensions, and light codes into a potent tapestry of soul alchemy. Her work is not merely a practice — it is a transmission, a living remembrance of who we are beyond the veils of illusion. With every session, gathering, or teaching, she invites others into the sacred temple of their own essence — guiding them to reclaim lost soul fragments, dissolve karmic patterns, and awaken the dormant codes of the New Human.Jen Maramba (she/they) honours their most recent ancestral lineages from PAN-GA-SEE-NONE Pangasinan and Panay PA-NI Island, lands now known through the colonial name “the Philippines.” Jen is a sacred witness, decolonizing energy healer, integrative somatic trauma therapy practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, and parent. Their work bridges ancestral connection, ceremony, and embodied creativity to support deep healing and remembrance. Through womb ceremonies and ancestral rituals, Jen guides individuals back to the creation center of the body, a place of listening, release, and reconnection. Rooted in relationships with their ancestors and collaborators, they uplift our Original AI: Ancestral Intelligence, as a path to remembering who we are and reclaiming our capacity for connection, intuition, and power.Connect with Jen Maramba and Natoya Hall - jenmaramba.com https://www.motherofstarkeeping.com/ Summarize this data    As Black and Brown decendents of people who survived through religious colonization, getting back to the spiritual practices and wisdom of those in our lineages can seem scary. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with practitioners of ancestral healing, Natoya Hall and Jen Maramba, to bring more lightness to spiritual wisdom lost to us.

    1h 40m

  6. FEB 9

    The Marrow of Indigenous Storytelling and Sovereignty w/ Dr. Autumn BlackDeer

    American colonialism has tried its best to erase the knowledge, traditions and population of those indigenous to this land. But the commitment to ancestral wisdom and practices, indigenous cultures continue to thrive. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with anti-colonial scholar, Dr. Autumn Blackdear about the power of native sovereignty. Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation. Her scholarship illuminates the impact of structural violence on American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Dr. BlackDeer centers Indigenous voices throughout her research by using quantitative approaches and big data as tools for responsible storytelling. Dr. BlackDeer is a racial equity scholar with an emphasis on Indigenous tribal sovereignty and is deeply committed to furthering anti-colonial abolitionist work. Connect with Dr. Autumn BlackDeer - follow on social media at @drblackdeer and/or email a2blackdeer@gmail.com for collaboration opportunities.

    1h 13m

  7. JAN 26

    The Marrow of Soft Girl Shit with EbonyJanice

    In the era of self-care, what we've grown to know about caring for ourselves and regulating our nervous systems has become a slogan for luxury and self-centered action. But how can your commitment to softness and self-care also be care for those in your community? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with EbonyJanice, a free woman on a love journey, about her ethos for real soft girl shit. EbonyJanice Moore is a Hip Hop Womanist, scholar-priestess, sovereignty mentor, and revolutionary dreamer. With a mind shaped by Cultural Anthropology and Political Science, and a heart anchored in spirit, love, and liberation, she writes, teaches, and dreams Black women free. Founder of Emma’s Legacy and author of All The Black Girls Are Activists, Sacred Text For Black Folks Soul, and her forthcoming book Real Soft Girl Shit, she blends ancestral wisdom, womanist theology, and cultural commentary with the audacity of a sovereign being that knows she’s worthy. Her work lives at the altar of justice, joy, softness, and fantastic Black futures. Connect with EbonyJanice - www.ebonyjanice.com; IG, Threads, TikTok @ebonyjanice

    1h 43m

  8. 05/12/2025

    The Root of Menticide and Collective Care with Dr. Evan Auguste

    Menticide, or the systematic and intentional undermining of a person's conscious mind, effectively "killing" or destroying their independent thought and beliefs, is one of the most effective ways to supress revolutionary change in a society. So how do we protect our communities from it? And what examples do we have to look to? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Dr. Evan Auguste about the effects of menticide and what we can learn from the Haitian revolution. Evan Auguste (aw-goost), Ph.D., is an incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. His identities as a Haitian-African American man have informed his work on examining how the American history of anti-Blackness has shaped psychological realities both in and outside of the country’s borders. He is the director of the A.S.I.L.I. Collective, a research group whose work focuses broadly on addressing the mental health consequences of structural anti-Blackness through the lens of Black liberation psychology. He is also the co-developer of the SAWABONA HEALING CIRCLES for the Association of Black Psychologists. He is also the Lead Facilitator with In Cultured Company and on the board for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts.Connect with Dr. Auguste on Instagram- @dr.evan.auguste, @inculturedco, @ida.nyc, @abpsy Books and resources mentioned: The Common Wind by Julius Scott The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order by Amos N. Wilson Education | John Henrik Clarke | Marimba Ani | Amos N Wilson https://youtu.be/fhFtIBrD6fg

    1h 25m
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From Root To Bone is the podcast for people who are parched, poised and primed to rehydrate our souls and do some unlearning. A place where Dr. Jenn unlocks the gates and has real ass conversations with elders, teachers and her intellectual crushes, folks doing the real ass work towards reclaiming the juiciest parts of our ancestry, history, collective health and liberation. Dr. Jenn, The Rage Doctor, and Founder of Decolonizing Therapy continues to shift the mental health paradigm on its head with her realness, vulnerability and 25 + years of experience as a clinical psychologist, community

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