What's Up, Let It Go, Squad! I am so excited to share the conversation in this episode with you!

In this episode, I had the privilege of chatting with one of my beloved yoga sisters who is doing amazing things to help black women and girls in her local community of Syracuse, NY.

Dr. Marcelle Haddix is a 500-hour certified registered yoga instructor and founder of zenG Yoga who specializes in yoga and mindfulness for underrepresented groups and for community-based organizations with strong commitments to reproductive health and food justice. She is co-founder of the Sankofa Reproductive Health & Healing Center and founding president of Cafe Sankofa Cooperative in Syracuse, NY. She also practices veganism and healthy, soulful living.  Her community-engaged approach to yoga, wellness, and healthy living culminate in yoga and writing retreats for women and couples of color, yoga and mindfulness workshops in urban school contexts, and regular yoga classes and sister circles in the Syracuse community. In addition to her work as a yoga and wellness instructor, she is a dean’s professor and chair of the literacy department at Syracuse University and a nationally recognized literacy scholar committed to centering Black literacies in educational practices and spaces.  She facilitates literacy programs for adolescent and adult communities in Syracuse, including the Writing Our Lives project for urban youth writers and a Black women’s literary club and free library project currently housed at Café Sankofa Cooperative.  Follow her at @zengangstayoga  on Facebook and Instagram and at  www.zengyoga.com

In this episode, Dr. Haddix and I discussed the power of dreaming, staying focused on our dreams, and finding the right support system to help propel you towards the realization of your dreams. We also discussed what it can feel like when it seems like our dreams may be delayed in their full realization in the present moment. As a bonus, we also had a special chat about her recent keynote presentation on Black Futures at the 2nd Annual Speculative Education Colloquium.

So, what has been holding you back from realizing the potential of achieving your God-given dreams? Get ready to let that go!

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"A lot of times our worst enemy is ourselves coupled with the pressures of the environment around us!" - Candice Maria (from Girl, Let it Go! Effectively dealing with yesterday in order to walk in victory today)

What's Up #LetitGoSquad! Welcome to the Conversations Series of the Girl, Let it Go Podcast! In this episode, I am joined by my good friend, Tonya Price! She's a Mom, Educator, Positivity Pusher, Founder of Culture Carrier Brand, and the Host of the Empowered to Inspire Podcast! We've teamed up to encourage and remind women, especially is this season of a "pandemic of discouragement" called 2020, to let go of an unhealthy view of self and always see themselves the way God sees them! 

2020 has been a challenging year for many people, COVID19 pandemic, racial injustice, job loss, and economic crises! Enough disappointments to make practically anyone doubt what they believe about God and even their own value and worth in this world!

So, What lies are you telling yourself about your self-worth? We discuss our personal responses to this question, and so many more! So, let go of your inner critic and learn how to carry a healthy view of self and walk in the Godfidence you were designed to walk in! 

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"To be forever young, gifted, and black is where it's at!" - Nina Simone

What's up #LetItGoSquad! This episode is focused on helping women, in particular our sisters of color with moving forward in light of the recent outcome of Breonna Taylor's case.

As a woman of faith and a woman of color, I personally have struggled with this and decided to cope with this tragedy by continuing to live and thrive and be the best version of myself that I can possibly be. Breonna was making moves and working to better her life when it was in an instant stolen from her. So I charge my fellow sisters, to keep growing, thriving, and building for yourself and all the Breonna Taylor's attached to your life. We all have at least one and we are all someone else's Breonna. Breonna was a sister, a daughter, a friend and so much more! 

We must continue to live on for our sisters, mothers, daughters, and friends spurring one another on in love, and encouraging one another to never settle and to become the best version of ourselves that God designed us to be! "Young, Gifted, and Black! And that's a Fact!" - Nina Simone

Link to  Grieving Breonna: Racial Trauma and Black Women's Mental Health with Dr. Anita Phillips 

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This week's episode deals with the purpose and process of LAMENT! 

What makes your heart cry? I'm talking about that person,  place, thing, or idea that causes you grief, causes your soul to deeply mourn.

Lament opens one's eyes to see the transgressions, injustice, sin, etc..within and around them and gives one the humility and desire to bring it before God in complete sorrow and surrender.

Lament pulls at that root, to propel us to confess our transgressions and fall on God’s mercy, so that His character can take root in our lives,  producing the fruit of His spirit. 

"When we pull our transgressions up by its root, we can kill and eradicate its fruit. Lament helps us prepare the soil of our hearts and minds to do just that."