Roots of the Spirit Podcast Spirit Tawfiq

Host Spirit Tawfiq talks with Jocelyn Boreta, the co-founder of a bilingual mobile herb clinic by and for Latinx and Indigenous people. The Botanical Bus is helping people in her community through the power of plants and a connection to ancestors, helping cultivate health equity and the feeling of belonging. 
Community health workers called promotoras are providing culturally-centered health services. The promotoras meet people where they are, literally and figuratively, by taking the bus out to worksites and family service center hubs.
 

Author Connor Towne O’Neill explores the history of white supremacy in his book Down Along with That Devil’s Bones. On a special bonus episode of Roots of the Spirit, we’ll hear about his journey to fight against racism by examining the uncomfortable truths of our nation’s past.
Buy the Book: https://www.workman.com/products/down-along-with-that-devils-bones/paperback

Host Spirit Tawfiq talks with Dr. Kimber Shelton about the recent release of her Handbook on Counseling African American Women, which details the mental health needs and treatment interventions for black women.
Handbook on Counseling African American Women:
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Counseling-African-American-Women/dp/1440875952
Dr. Kimber Shelton:
https://www.kls-counseling.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CounselingBlackWomen
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/counselingblackwomen/

Host Spirit Tawfiq talks to noted meditation practitioner Shamair Courage of LoveWorks365, who will be leading a meditation session at a fundraiser on May 22, 2022 at The Studio at Athleta Flatiron to provide scholarships for women to attend the Roots of the Spirit Healing and Joy Retreat.
GoFundMe donations: https://gofund.me/18016786
Sign up for Roots of the Spirit Healing and Joy Retreat: https://www.rootsofthespirit.com/healing-joy-retreat
 

Host Spirit Tawfiq kicks off Season 2 with Dr. Thema Bryant, who will become President of the American Psychological Association in 2023.
Roots of the Spirit is launching the And Wellness For All initiative, which promotes honest discussion about the wellness of people of color in the U.S.
4:20 Announcing the inaugural Roots of the Spirit Healing & Joy Retreat for black, indiginous, and women of color
6:00 Sign up for retreat and retreat details
6:15 Retreat will feature fresh farm foods, yoga, meditation, herbal farm, cacao ceremony
7:50 Scholarship fundraiser for access to retreat
10:55 Welcome Dr. Thema Bryant 
13:30 Dr. Thema’s interest in psychology
19:00 Psychological homelessness
25:00 Racism lies 
26:40 Psychological damage of oppression
33:30 Empowering ourselves to influence policy and promote change
36:20 Resistance strategies
41:30 Being the descendents of the oppressor
51:10 American Psychological Association’s apology for promoting systemic rascism
Sign up for Roots of the Spirit Healing and Joy Retreat: https://www.rootsofthespirit.com/healing-joy-retreat
Healing and Joy Retreat Fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/18016786
Dr. Thema Bryant’s website: https://drthema.com/
Buy Dr. Thema Bryant’s book, Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self. 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059341831X?tag=randohouseinc46150-20

Treat yourself to a conversation with Civil Rights Icon, New York Times Bestselling Author, and Speaker Ruby Bridges who at the age of six was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.
Her walk through the front doors of William Frantz Elementary School on Nov. 14, 1960, was immortalized in Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With in Robert Coles’ book The Story of Ruby Bridges, and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges.

Published in November 2020, This is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years following the publication of her award-winning autobiography, Through My Eyes. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity.

Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New Rochelle, Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. She recently named one of 100 iconic Women of the Century by USA Today.
**Please note that the N-word is used once in this episode in a historical context**
Ruby Bridges Foundation: www.RubyBridges.com
Purchase Ruby Bridges’ New York Times bestselling book This Is Your Time: https://bit.ly/3wM97c5
Disney's Ruby Bridges (movie): https://bit.ly/3a5Pn9U
Instagram: rubybridgesofficial