Still Steeping

Chris & Kelley

Join co-hosts, Chris & Kelley, as they seek conversations that stimulate the mind and soothe the soul. They're finding the movers, shakers, feelers, and thinkers, both locally sourced and from all around this great big world, to discuss the struggles, triumphs, and overall beauty of finding and understanding oneself through the pursuit of what really makes your life move to the true rhythm of your soul.

Episodes

  1. 07/16/2020

    2nd Cup : Understanding Black Identity, Pursuit of Passions, and Fully Embracing Your Mental Health Journey with Ari B. Cofer

    In this week's episode, Chris & Kelley debut their first guest on the podcast and she debuts her first interview on a podcast.  It's everybody's first time and it's fully embraced! Chris & Kelley have a conversation with Ari B. Cofer that is as raw, honest, and unflinching in it's subject matter as she is in her writing. So. grab a cup, a pitcher, or a bottle (hey, judgement free zone here!) of your favorite beverage and come join them as they navigate some soul nourishing dialogue! Piping Hot Topics:  ✔️journey/process of discovering your passion  ✔️societal, cultural, and familial programming/deprogramming as it relates to creative expression & pursuits of passions ⁠  ✔️the impact that growing up/living in the south can have on your sense of identity & worth as it relates to black womanhood & creative expression  ✔️feeling the need to tone down blackness & lived experience as it relates to creative expression & impact on audience engagement ⁠  ✔️mental health + therapy + healing as nonlinear & an ongoing journey + self car **Trigger Warning: the topics around our discussion of mental health include self harm and suicidal thoughts, so please be sure to take the necessary precautions you need to ensure your safety and protection of your own mental health.** A graduate from Baylor University with a degree in Professional Writing, Ari currently is a full-time writer, poet, wife, pet mom, and fierce mental health advocate. Her self-published debut collection of poetry, Not Enough, Just Enough, is currently available for sale on Amazon, online at Barnes & Noble, and in Austin bookstores.⁠ Using her Instagram platform (with more than 19.5k followers) she shares her lived experience navigating her own mental health, sense of blackness/black womanhood, love & heart-ache & loss, self-worth & self-love, and the human experience as a whole. Her dream is to be able to travel around the country with other poets and musicians to share her poetry and speak on the topic of mental health.⁠ You can Ari at: http://facebook.com/abcoferpoetry IG: @a.b.cofer twitter: @abcofer abcofer.com/subscribe (newsletter) Let us know what you think about this episode. Connect with us: Instagram:  screenshot + share episode thoughts with @stillsteepingpod  Email: stillsteepingpod@gmail.com Link to Ikigai diagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5miEOnNUp/

    1h 24m

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Join co-hosts, Chris & Kelley, as they seek conversations that stimulate the mind and soothe the soul. They're finding the movers, shakers, feelers, and thinkers, both locally sourced and from all around this great big world, to discuss the struggles, triumphs, and overall beauty of finding and understanding oneself through the pursuit of what really makes your life move to the true rhythm of your soul.