I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John

Reading a selection from my book, Lyric of Silence, which begins, A million golden blades make plush the meadow within your heart...

My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Ebooks are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com... 

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In honor of Social Work Appreciation Month, I am honored to share with you this live recording of me reciting my poem I Call You Legendary, from my book, Legendary: A Tribute to Those Who Honorably Serve Devalued Children. The eBook is available exclusively at jaiyajohn.com. This reading is excerpted from Reclaiming Our Sacred Ways, a live, abridged keynote message by Dr. Jaiya John at the January 24, 2018 Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Conference, hosted by Antelope Valley Partners for Health. Lancaster, California. LENGTH 60:00. Available exclusively in the Audio Library at jaiyajohn.com.

In the full recording, Jaiya shares a hopeful message on our need to reclaim ancestral, communal, humanistic ways of nurturing, supporting, and responding to crisis within children, families, and communities. In addition to reciting his classic spoken word piece, I Call You Legendary, from his book Legendary, Jaiya addresses a wide range of issues with soulful truthfulness, including:

• The cultural origins of our current social systems
• Our need to reassess the culture of our systems
• Our need to rebalance and heal our social world
• Reckoning with our cultural supremacies and caste systems
• Evolving our definition and understanding of child abuse
• What it means to be a healer
• Honoring and repairing fatherhood and motherhood
• The harm caused by soulless professionalism
• The persistence and endurance of Mother Teresa
• The critical relationship between wellness and the work of serving lives
• The power of hopefulness and gratitude
• A path for ending generational suffering and trauma
• Our need to soulfully celebrate compassionate servitude 
• The medicine of self care, mutual care, and story gardening

This full recording is a valuable resource for MSW programs, new staff orientation, professional and leadership development, staff meetings, staff retreats, in-service trainings, and culture change initiatives. It is available exclusively in the Audio Library at jaiyajohn.com...

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Reading a selection from my book, Lyric of Silence, which begins, Shatter the glass pitcher hoarding your sweet soul...

My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Ebooks are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...

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From Dr. Thema Bryant's Instagram account: MOVING FROM FEAR TO FREEDOM with psychologist, poet, and freedom worker Dr. Jaiya John. Join us for this enlightening conversation about his powerful book "Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution." He reads key passages for us and reflects on supremacy, inferiority, racism, internalized racism, rest, love, and freedom.
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The Homecoming Podcast with Dr.Thema is available on all podcast platforms. Her new book, Homecoming, is to be released on March 15. Preorders are available now at booksellers.

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Reading a selection from my book, Habanero Love: A Poem of Sacred Passion, which begins, Usurp my throne...

My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...      

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Reading an unpublished piece which begins, One glance from your soul...
My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...     

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Reading an unpublished piece which begins, This morning I hold the gourd of my heart...
My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...    

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Reading a selection which begins, Bless the hearts of those... from my book, Fresh Peace: Daily Blossoming of the Soul. My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...   

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Reading a selection which begins, A morning mantra for remembering... from my book, Lyric of Silence: A Poetic Telling of the Human Soul Journey. My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com... 

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Reading a selection which begins, Sacred is this moment... from my book, Fresh Peace: Daily Blossoming of the Soul. My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide, in both hardcover and softcover. Thank you for posting your copies on Instagram, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...  

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