This week's guest lives at the intersection of real life and deep inner work. Meet Oneika Mays, a meditation teacher, yoga instructor, and the author of Sit With Me, A No BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation. It is a book that honestly says what so much of wellness culture quietly ignores.

Meditation isn't for the calm. It's for the messy. It's a your-life-cracked open, and now what? kind of book. For nearly 15 years, Oneika has been teaching mindfulness and loving kindness. From yoga studios and hospitals to spaces, most teachers have never entered, like Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She's helped people who'd been told they didn't deserve care, discover something radical, they could be kind to themselves.

Her work centers around accessibility, compassion, and real world practice, not perfection. And her book is part memoir, part guidebook, all about showing up exactly as you are. Not more zen, not calmer, just you. And her passion for this work comes from her own experience. When her own life shattered through personal tragedy, mindfulness and yoga became part of her survival.

So unpack love and kindness with us. The no BS of meditation and why these practices are for everybody, not just for the peaceful ones. It's time for you to sit with Oneika Mays.

MORE FROM ONEIKA MAYS

• Visit oneikamays.com to find about her book, events and offerings. 
• Follow @oneikamays

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