BEARTH (r)Evolution Podcast

Reuben and Nyasha are The Ascension Seed and a brilliant couple in the U.K. using their practice, meditation, and sound to bring healing through oneness in the body. And...they're stepping into Truth and Reconciliation for White and Black communities. They offer a container, a safe way to do the work of dismantling "racism," and the unholy separation from ourselves, Divine union and each other. Their work, their practice is powerful. And they don't sugar coat, they confront it and it's creating a beautiful ripple effect. Do listen in on our conversation and join our short meditation at the end.

 

** To find out more about their next Reveal to Heal Sessions Click the link below for, 24 August to12 September information:

https://theascensionseed.clickfunnels.com/vsl1591483854920

 

** To follow their work, check out. The Ascension Seed at  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAscensionSeed/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theascensionseed/

To support: https://linktr.ee/theascensionseed

She's Europe's activist darling, and the face of the French fight for Black lives in Paris, Assa Traoré is becoming an international and key figure. She took time and sat down with me to talk about her brother, the phrase "white privilege" and what she needs Americans to know. Listen in. 

 

YouTube LINK with Subscripts for English Speakers - https://youtu.be/7exDM7SUHMc

 

To Follow the Paris Movement, see the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/La-v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9-pour-Adama-160752057668634/

 

To Follow Assa on Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/assa.traore_/

 

* New Yorker Article on Assa Traoré:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-europe/assa-traore-and-the-fight-for-black-lives-in-france

Sonia joins me and discusses the major issues facing Rome's migrant and Black population as well as her experiences and a solution. It's starts with education. And it's important to see the global move in White Spaces shift and change as our brothers and sisters command equality. 

 

** To find out more about migrants in Italy, and follow Sonia's work, take a look at the following sites:

https://omcvi.it/cosa-facciamo/

https://www.facebook.com/OmcviRadioBeleza/posts/

 

** To Follow Black Lives Matter, Roma, go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/Black-Lives-Matter-Roma-115089506895984/

 

- Stay Tuned for so Much more across the Atlantic.

During the Author LIVE Event, where we unpacked 'Reckoning in the Rubble,' my friend Matt Willingham recalled a moment we went out to scout a newly "liberated" town outside Mosul, and the moment of humor we found in it. Perhaps it's a way to find grief when no other way is possible. Listen in. 

 

** To Watch and Listen to our Entire Conversation, Check out YouTube:

https://youtu.be/EJmgITYsZBo

 

** To Purchase your copy of Reckoning in the Rubble, go to: 

https://ashgallagher.com/book ​

White spiritual brothers and sisters, we need to chat: You're too silent, you're separating yourselves in the name of future thinking spirituality, and avoidance. Time for that to end.

A late night rant ....thank you for taking time to listen. Let's keep talking. 

 

- For more on BEARTH, https://bearthcreative.com

​Storyteller, Journalist, and Lebanese Feminist, Hwaida Saad joins me for an intimate conversation on what's it's like to grow up during civil war, stepping into her power as a woman in the Middle East and how we create (r)evolution, moving forward... hint, Women, our weapon, our seeds, it's time. Listen in... 

 

To get your copy of "Our Women on the Ground" Visit (A must read!)  - 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575303/our-women-on-the-ground-by-edited-by-zahra-hankir-foreword-by-christiane-amanpour/

 

To Check out More of Hwaida's work: 

NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/by/hwaida-saad

Twitter, https://twitter.com/hwaida_saad

 

 

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To Support this podcast and find out more information, visit: bearthcreative.com

The sweeping young generation of LGBTQ+ are on fire. The stories and passion to embody and embrace ourselves is an outcry taking center stage more than ever before. I spend time with Shelby Yaffe whose own journey with her faith, her body, her family has given her new purpose for her wife and her daughter. A poet, writer, spirit filled woman, she is stepping out and stepping up for those who need her voice most. Listen in. 

 

To find out more about Shelby Yaffe and her work, her poetry and connect visit her site at: https://shelbyyaffe.com/

 

References: 

For Black Lives Matter, check out the following sites:

https://naacp.org/

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://8cantwait.org/

 

For LGBTQ+ Youth Check out the following: 

The Trevor Project: 

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ 

 

- Also, if you belong to a Christian home and are struggling w/ your family space, Encourage you to follow Pastor Stan Mitchell, who has become an outspoken ally for LGBTQ+ along with his community

https://www.facebook.com/stan.mitchell.58

- Popularity Activism. Is your support for Black Lives Matter for Show? Are you ready to get your hands dirty and do the work? Cultivate change? Surrender is our superpower, we can't stay silent, we can't just say pretty words or put up memes, we have to get in the dirt and dig a grave for White Supremacy. The comparisons to D.V. are peeking through, let's explore and move toward to healing and justice. This is only part I.

 

Support 8-Can't Wait. Find out ways to improve the justice system and policing in your city 

https://8cantwait.org/

 

​*** ​References from the podcast ***

Dr. Ramani Durvasala & Communal Narcissism : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQxnf0anbLw&t=125s

 

Psychotherapist, Esther Perel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eN7PS9mi8__4EYxy6VpFw

 

Pastor Stan Mitchell https://www.facebook.com/stan.mitchell.58/timeline?lst=854995044%3A100001754083612%3A1591849694

 

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

In an active and fierce community outside Tampa Bay, Florida, Joanie Hempsworth and her wife run a new and used bookstore called The Paperback Exchange. And through her work, activism and the books she keeps on the shelf, she hopes to start hard conversations in her community to help bring people together. She's faced off with hard-core religious protestors and she's also had MAGA hats in her store, but her hope is to dispel bigotry, educate the public and give back. It's PRIDE month, and the letters from LGBTQ+ are growing, and she says, let's keep adding on. Listen in... 

 

** You can find more information on The Paperback Exchange Store @: 

http://www.paperbackexchangebookstore.com/

6412 Ridge RoadPort Richey, FL 34668

** The tales of Drag Queen Story Hour:

https://www.facebook.com/dragqueenstoryhour/

 

& News

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2020/06/09/drag-queen-story-hour-continues-in-pasco-despite-protesters--pandemic

 

** References in the Podcast: 

1. Watermark Magazine: https://watermarkonline.com/

2. The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Mookie shares her story, as a Black woman, as a Black mother in the 21st century. We talk about race in America, the tension of Feminism between Black and White Women and how we can find spaces together to move the needle forward into radical change, justice and healing for the U.S. 

 

*To Follow 

Mookie the Magnificent: https://www.facebook.com/mookiethemagnificent/

 

*To Check out her radical post - "Okay black people, ask white people" 

https://www.facebook.com/mookiethemagnificent/posts/412663229491702

 

*Do read*

Book: 'How To Be An Anti-Racist' by Ibram X. Kendi 

Watch: on Netflix, 

Documentary, '13th,' & 'The Kalief Browder Story'

 

Read: New York Times, 1971, Toni Morrison on Women's Lib Movement: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/22/archives/what-the-black-woman-thinks-about-womens-lib-the-black-woman-and.html?fbclid=IwAR2AjuQelZx_RKElm0RlxKm98WwwetyGRyvPLLOSOvsdxfTSx-vunDeXiA4

 

 

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