The Grace & Grind Podcast

In this episode, Kharissa guides us in a series of affirmations designed to empower and replenish the Black community.

In this episode, Wes and Kharissa share how their recent family vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama was rooted in self-care. Tune in as they provide insight into why vacations should be part of how you practice self-care and what to do to make sure every trip caters to your mental health and well-being.

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In this episode, Wesley and Kharissa continue their conversation with ancestral healer, medium, and medicine man Jamari Michael White. Tune in as they discuss:

- reshaping how Christianity looks in light of Black ancestry apart from white-washed American church culture

- the necessity to hold space for Black men to feel safe, heal, and tend to their own self-care

- what we're really talking about when we use the phrase toxic masculinity

- how the inability to be alone contributes to a detrimental experience with the opposite sex

- the difference between vulnerability and transparency and how to practice both

Learn more about Jamari at blackancestralhealing.com and blackbirdsheal.com. Connect with him on Instagram at

@blackancestralhealing and @blackbirdsheal.

In this episode, Kharissa guides us in a meditation session that helps separate our identity from our thoughts and emotions.

In this episode of The Grace & Grind Podcast, Wesley and Kharissa chat with Jamari Michael White, founder of Black Ancestral Healing and Black Birds Heal, about his experience as an ancestral healer, medium, and medicine man. Some of the topics they discuss include: 

- why it's important for Black people to reconnect with their cultural traditions

- the idea that both past lives and ancestors co-exist

- the direct relationship between the health of our spiritual bodies and the health of our physical bodies

- the energy we must align with to manifest our goals before putting in any work

Learn more about Jamari at blackancestralhealing.com and find him on Instagram @blackancestralhealing.

In this episode, Wesley and Kharissa sit down with Healthy+Well founder Naomi Hutchinson to discuss how she merges Yoga into her life without compromising her beliefs as a Christian. Naomi also shares her insight on exercising compassion in replace of judgment, making self-care a sustainable practice, conscious consumption, and more. Learn more about Healthy+Well on Instagram @healthyandwell.la and at healthyandwell.online.

Accompanied by the sounds of nature, Kharissa guides us in a mediation session that helps us create an equal, healthy response to both the ups and downs of life. Join the Art of Meditation for free at graceandgrind.co.

In honor of Mental Health Month, we're chatting about how the pandemic is causing PTSD, especially in front-line healthcare workers, and what one local organization is doing to help. We're also sharing what we're doing to take care of our mental health this month and how it's going to help you take care of yours.

In this episode, Disease Investigator DC Okonta answers all of our vaccine questions and addresses concerns such as the mistrust of the vaccine among the Black community and religious groups, what efficiency rates really mean, what we have to do to get "back to normal," and more.