Trevia has an open, honest, and vulnerable conversation with Naomi Marquez and Mandi Benecke about the meaning and differences between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. We talk about incorporating symbols, traditions, and words from other cultures, and Trevia helps us navigate how to respectfully appreciate cultures that are not ours instead of appropriating them into our own culture.

Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.

We welcome Trevia Woods who tells us her story. A story of courage, strength, bravery, love, authenticity, and a commitment to her ancestors. Trevia explains how her courage and her strength come from her ancestors and how she imprinted on her Grandma at a very young age. Her story and her follow-up episode (cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation) give us all an opportunity to learn. As Trevia says, “...because our best classroom is each other.”

Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.

Toni Abbruzzese and Mandi Benecke discuss an intro to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. They go over the benefits, misconceptions, and how to's to adopting a healthy, holistic lifestyle. Toni and Mandi are currently continuing their Holistic Nutrition Education to earn their Master Level Nutrition Certifications to become board certified and work toward our passion of coaching other people who suffer from varying diet-related diseases. They believe that with proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, many of the diseases we encounter today can be both avoided and cured.

Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.

Imagine if you were the mother of a small child who was given the wrong medication intravenously while you were away from her hospital room for a moment. A medication that was meant for another patient, an adult. LaQuita Parks was that child and because of this malpractice, she has suffered in excruciating pain and has had very limited mobility for her entire life.

Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.

Ally Henny is a writer, speaker, and the host of Combing the Roots, a podcast exploring issues of race and justice. During this episode, Ally discusses her life as a black woman and how her black life experience has shown her the truth about racism, Christianity, and activism.

Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.