The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation

This episode is all about reclaiming our space in restorative healing – Yoga is Black.

This episode of The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation with our new host, Rachel Keener, is joined by counseling psychologist and yoga teacher @Dr.Bernasha.

Dr. Bernasha Anderson (she/her) is a licensed counseling psychologist, wellness consultant, and certified yoga teacher. She founded Thryve Wellness House PLLC, a private practice based in Washington, DC, to empower Black women, girls, and non-binary folx in our mental wellness journeys. Utilizing mind-body-based approaches such as yoga, mindfulness meditation, and breath practice, Dr. Bernasha helps individuals and families reclaim restorative healing tools that help them live a life reflective of their values.

Dr. Bernasha works alongside organizations such as The Loveland Foundation and Cushman & Wakefield to develop employee wellness programming designed to support the mental well-being of their teams. She co-facilitates quarterly peer support groups for The Loveland Foundation where cohort members connect and heal within the community. Cohort members can access meditations facilitated by Dr. Bernasha through The Loveland Foundation. Dr. Bernasha also serves as one of the contributors to the foundation's monthly meditation series. This free series reduces barriers to mental health resources and aids cohort members in creating sustainable mental wellness practices. 

The Loveland Foundation would like to thank Dr. Bernasha for joining us for this episode. We hope you enjoy listening.

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. 

At The Loveland Foundation, we are committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. 

Since our founding, the Therapy Fund has provided financial support for therapy to over 13,000 Black women, girls, and non-binary individuals across the country. This year our goal is to provide free therapy to at least 6,000 more.

If you’d like to join us and invest in generational change, visit www.thelovelandfoundation.org  for ways to give.

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This episode is all about making pleasure tangible. In our best Salt-N-Pepa voice – Let’s Talk About Sex.

This episode of The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation host @Miriam.starobin is joined by sex and relationship therapist Dr. Donna Oriowo (oreo-whoa!) – @Dr.DonnaOriowo

Dr. Donna Oriowo LICSW, CST, is an award-winning DEI advocate, international speaker and certified sex and relationship therapist in the Washington D.C. metro area. Dr. Donna is the owner of private practice, AnnodRight, which specializes in working with Black women on issues related to colorism and texturism and its impacts on mental and sexual health. Dr. Donna specializes in working with Black women to feel Free, Fabulous, and F*cked! She is the author of Cocoa Butter & Hair Grease: A Self Love Journey Through Hair and Skin and the host of a weekly community space for Black women called In My Black Feelings. Dr. Donna collects inspiring quotes, eats donuts, loves pasta, travels to learn, gives COVID safe handshakes, warm hugs, and (figurative) knocks on the head.

We here at The Loveland Foundation sincerely thank Dr. Donna for joining us for this episode and hope you all enjoy listening.

If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more about the topic below are some resources chosen by our host.

Salvation: Black People and Love – by bell hooks
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good – by adrienne maree brown
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love – by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Explorer's Guide to Planet Orgasm – by Annie Sprinkle

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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This episode is all about restoration or as our special guest put it. “Rest is one thing, but to restore is another.” – Rebeckah Price.

This episode of The Unfolding; Presented by The Loveland Foundation host @miriam.starobin is joined by wellness advocate, yoga instructor (RYT 200), meditation teacher, and wellness entrepreneur – Rebeckah Price @rebeckahprice

Rebeckah's work is rooted in an intersectional understanding of power and harnessing the tools and resources to facilitate community change. Her work intersects and connects wellness and social justice as a pathway for collective wellbeing. In 2013 she founded irise yoga + wellness- as a way to connect, promote, bring awareness to and foster the inclusion of people of colour and other historically marginalized groups in yoga and wellness spaces.

Rebeckah believes that everyone has the potential to be an intersectional wellness ally and to that end, she has worked on and developing strategies and policies related to diversity & inclusion, equity, and creating safe, cohesive communities. Using her lived experience as a Woman of Colour and her unique expertise in community development and engagement to bridge and address the gap of diversity in the wellness industry through consulting, training and workshops, etc. She has led trainings on yoga, racial equity, belonging and community for yoga teachers, wellness practitioners and businesses. She also has conceptualized, developed and implemented inclusive wellness initiatives for universities.

We here at The Loveland Foundation sincerely thank Rebeckah for joining us for this episode and hope you all enjoy listening.

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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Welcome back everyone! A new season, new episode, is ready for your collective hearts and minds.

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation host, Miriam Starobin, is joined by Dr. Shena Young.

Dr. Shena Young (she/her) is a licensed body centered psychologist-healer, artist, and Iyalorisa of Osun and Obatala in the Isese tradition of Ifa.  affectionately known as dr shena, she intimately works with folks of the global majority, anchored in the pillars of remembrance, sovereignty, authenticity, intuition, and self-determination.  she holds space internationally for individuals, couples, groups, and organizations committed to the ritual of calling themselves back into their bodies as a freedom practice.  she owns a private practice, embodied truth healing & psychological services, rooted in Los Angeles, CA where she offers mind-body-heart-spirit care in healing from sexual, racial, intergenerational, and ancestral traumas.  in fall 2023 her debut book - body rites:  an embodied healing workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma will be available as published by WW Norton & Co.   

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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Our Theme here at The Loveland Foundation for the year of 2022 has been Ritual. 

Ritual as our theme is rooted in this being the third year of a global pandemic. Year one was a survival year. Year two we attempted to process the scale of loss and change. And in year three we needed the tools to move forward. Each episode this year we asked our guests to share the tool of ritual and how they incorporate it in their lives. This episode shares these tools with you. 

Ritual Responses include clips from the below episodes and their special guests:

Chloe Dulce Louvouezo: @chloe_dulce
Dr. Ebony: @drebonyonline 
Phoebe Robinson: @dopequeenpheebs
Madison McFerrin: @madmcferrin
shanina dionna: @shaninadionna
Lindsey Farrar: @lindsey.farrar & @crwnmag
Meghan Watson: @thrive_withmeg
Jasmin Foster: @thejasminfoster & @berootedco 
Shesheena Bray: @metoomvmt
Denise Beek: @metoomvmt
Host: Miriam.starobin

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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This episode encompasses what it means to be the first. The responsibility and the desire to bring up other Black entrepreneurs as she enters into spaces that were never imagined for her. 

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation, host Miriam Starobin is joined by Jasmin Foster –  The CEO and Founder of Be Rooted, the first and only Black-owned stationery brand available at retail giant Target and Target.com.

As a little girl growing up in Indianapolis, IN Foster always loved stationery. With every new semester she would be excited to buy school supplies, and into adulthood, she’d buy a new planner to map out her work and life. Despite her enthusiasm, over the years Foster realized that she always felt disconnected from the category. Recognizing that there was a gap in the market for a brand that spoke to her, Foster launched Be Rooted in 2020 with a mission to empower women of color and create a space for them to see themselves in the stationery they love. 

Aligned with Foster’s own passion to serve her community, Be Rooted regularly participates in philanthropic initiatives. To date, Be Rooted has donated over 400 free minutes of free therapy through its partnership with The Loveland Foundation. Foster is determined for Be Rooted to continue to partner with more organizations that support women of color and encourage positive wellness practices in the Black community. In 2022, Be Rooted and Jasmin Foster were recognized for its global impact as one of TIME Magazine’s TIME100 Most Influential Companies.                

Be Rooted would love to offer all The Unfolding listeners a 15% off coupon on their first order at berootedco.com using code LOVELAND. Head to their website to find the perfect journal or notebook to express yourself.
                
The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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This goes out to all the people out there that are too tired to make those dinner plans – Cut The Bullsh*t, Just Reschedule.

This episode of The Unfolding; Presented by The Loveland Foundation host Miriam Starobin is joined by stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress – Phoebe Robinson.

Phoebe is the co-creator and co-star of the hit podcast turned HBO series 2 Dope Queens and other critically acclaimed podcasts including Sooo Many White Guys and Black Frasier. She’s also the New York Times bestselling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain and Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay which was picked up as a series order for Freeform that released this summer, July 13th. Additionally, Phoebe starred in the films Ibiza and What Men Want, and was a moderator for Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour where she interviewed the former first lady. In 2019, Phoebe launched Tiny Reparations, a production company under ABC Signature, whose first series Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinson, premiered April 2021 on Comedy Central. In 2021, Phoebe published her third book of essays Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, which quickly became an indie national bestseller and the inaugural title from her imprint, Tiny Reparations Books, which champions writers of color. Her debut hour comedy special, Sorry, Harriet Tubman, premiered in Oct 2021 on HBO Max.

We here at The Loveland Foundation sincerely thank Phoebe for joining us for this episode and hope you all enjoy listening.

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to our website: thelovelandfoundation.org or https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzU4MzM=

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This episode is all about expression and finding your voice through a language that makes sense to you. Now we aren’t talking about spoken language, we are talking about ART.

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation, host Miriam Starobin is joined by Shanina Dionna – a visual and performing artist, mental health advocate and non-profit youth arts educator based in Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since 2011, her Embryo art exhibition series has helped raise awareness for mental health; chronicling the life of one millennial’s growth journey. Her art for social change practice is rooted in the exposure of her own personal battle and history with mental illnesses, diagnoses, hospitalization and therapy treatments. Life-sized acrylic portraits, improv performances, dance/movement, film, photography, botanical therapy and "safe space” installations all help convey her intent for communal wellness and healing. In 2016, Shanina Dionna helped found the youth art program, @artbudsphilly (on Instagram), currently housed at the Urban Art Gallery in West Philadelphia. In 2018, she became one of twenty artists worldwide to receive the first-ever TDC20 Grant (The Dean Collection 20) presented by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. In a 2020 interview, Philadelphia Magazine recognized her as the “Philly artist creating a positive space for mental health conversations.” Shanina Dionna is a certified PCEAT facilitator (Person Centered Expressive Arts Therapy) and in May 2021 she launched her Expressive Arts Healing independent practice for teenagers and adults.

This episode covers many topics but throughout the episode there is discussion of mental health issues specifically suicidal thoughts and ideations. If this topic is triggering please fast forward or turn off the episode in its entirety. 

Regardless of your choice to fast forward over those particular segments or the episode, we encourage anyone who needs it to utilize the below resources. 

Please use the list below for resources or call 911 to request crisis intervention,

or other appropriate personnel, for immediate support.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Call 800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Text Line – Text NAMI to 741-741

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is an additional resource not only to the public, but to our therapy fund cohort members. The Loveland Foundation therapy fund and resources are only made possible through support from our community. If you enjoy the podcast please go to the link in our bio to donate.

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For all our back-to-school baddies this episode is for you!  In this episode of The Unfolding: Presented by #TheLovelandFoundation, host, @Miriam.Starobin, interviews Dr. Ebony—Ebony Butler, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist and Food Relationship Strategist who has made it her mission to help women of color heal and thrive in the areas of trauma, including racial trauma and recovering from food and body trauma experienced through diet culture. Dr. Ebony works alongside women to help them develop skills that increase their relationships with others, themselves, and their bodies. Aligning with her passion to break through barriers that make it difficult for Black people and other people of color to access quality mental health care, Dr. Ebony created My Therapy Cards®, the first-ever self-exploration card deck for Black women and other women of color. Since its launch in May 2020, Dr. Ebony has expanded the card deck to include a Teen Edition and Men's Edition. The expansion of this resource has made self-insight and discovery work more accessible and affordable! 

The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation podcast is here to embrace the tough conversations and offer a new healing modality through vulnerability, honesty, and reciprocity. When we unfold we are committing to an exercise in compassion. Unfolding is language turned into behavior, an energetic exchange, through conversation, which supports you walking towards yourself.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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The Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls.

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