The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley

Freedom isn’t just political — it’s embodied.

In this season finale, Ìyá Ashley reflects on mental health + healing as liberation: the freedom to rest without guilt, love without fear, and choose how you heal. She invites listeners to carry what they’ve remembered into their next chapter with sovereignty and courage.

Healing is the freedom fight. And you are already a part of it.

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You were never broken.
Ìyá Ashley reminds us of an ancient truth shared across spiritual traditions: the medicine is already within you. Drawing from Ifá and other wisdom systems, she explores how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy impact our healing journeys.
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What if neurodivergence isn’t something to fix — but something to honor?
Ìyá Ashley is joined by Latrel Dortch, founder of the Holistic Brain Center, to explore autism and neurodivergence through a spiritual and holistic lens. Together, they challenge dominant medical narratives and uplift neurodivergence as gift, intuition, and wisdom.
This conversation invites us to listen more deeply — not just to children, but to spirit itself.
✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io/join to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.
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Healing has become an industry — but who does it actually serve?
Ìyá Ashley interrogates the wellness economy, performative self-care, and systems that decide who is allowed to feel safe, soft, and whole. She offers grounded questions to help listeners discern whether healing spaces truly honor their identity, culture, and spirit.
Decolonizing healing is not about aesthetics. It’s about dignity, alignment, and truth.
✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io/join to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.
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Why are African spiritual traditions so often erased, feared, or whispered about with shame?
In this deeply personal episode, Ìyá Ashley shares her journey into African Traditional Religions (ATRs) and her initiation into Ifá. She explores Òrìṣàs, destiny, ancestral communication, and what it means to reclaim spiritual practices that survived colonization.
These are not lost traditions. They are living systems — still calling us home.
✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io/join to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.
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Vodou has been misunderstood, feared, and demonized. But what if the fear was never about darkness — only about liberation?
Ìyá Ashley reclaims the truth about Vodou as the spiritual engine of the Haitian Revolution — the most successful slave revolut in history. She explores how ceremony, ancestral guidance, and spiritual strategy made freedom possible.
This is a powerful retelling of history, resistance, and the sacred technologies of liberation that continue to be erased.
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Plant medicine is not a trend — it’s an inheritance.

Ìyá Ashley shares her journey as a trained herbalist and explores plant medicine beyond tourism, psychedelics, and commercialization. She invites listeners into a slower, more reverent relationship with plants — as teachers, not tools.

From everyday herbs to ancestral practices, this episode reminds us that nature remembers — and that healing begins with relationship, not extraction.

✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.

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Bob Marley was more than a musician — he was a healer.

Ìyá Ashley is joined by Kathryn Leary, longtime confidante of Bob Marley and founder of One Firelight, to explore music as medicine. Through deeply personal stories, they discuss sound, ancestral frequency, grief, and how spirit moves through song.

This conversation reveals how Marley’s music continues to heal across generations — not as nostalgia, but as living medicine.

This is an invitation to hear healing, not just think about it.

✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.

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We’ve been taught that healing happens alone. Our ancestors knew otherwise.

Ìyá Ashley explores communal care as survival, strategy, and liberation work. Tracing movements from mutual aid to the Civil Rights era, she reminds us that healing has always been collective — and that community itself is medicine.

This conversation challenges individualism, honors intergenerational wisdom, and asks what becomes possible when joy, care, and responsibility are shared.

Healing is resistance. And we were never meant to do it alone.

✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.

🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community:

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What if entrepreneurship isn’t just business — but a spiritual journey?

Ìyá Ashley reframes the startup journey as a spiritual path of creation, self-knowing, and visibility. She shares the unseen lessons she learned while building MindRight Health — from rejection and scarcity to intuition, faith, and audacity.

This episode is for founders, dreamers, and builders who reject hustle culture and know that growth does not require self-abandonment.

You can build something meaningful without losing your spirit.

✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health.

🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community:

Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod

TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod

Twitch: @iya_ashley

YouTube: @iya-ashley