In case you haven’t heard, I’m hosting a half-day 2022 planning workshop at the top of the year! It’s called Decolonial Visioning and you’re invited.

During the workshop you’ll:

Connect to your innate wisdom and call forth your deepest vision for yourself, your people and our world

Learn my method and go-to tools for mapping out 2022 year intuitively

Attune to your unique rhythm in a way that centers pleasure and play while continuing to make moves in your work in the world

Participate in an embodied breathwork practice for clearing and alignment

Together we’re stepping into 2022 intentionally and intuitively.

It’s going down on January 9th.

And It’s $67. (That’s 1/5 of the cost of past workshops. Plus, we’re going deeper and it’s all brand new!)

Please join us.

Register at: DecolonialVisioning.com

There are also 25 tickets available at sliding scale for BIPOC women + femmes who are experiencing financial hardship. If this is you, please email hello@embodiedblackgirl dot com and let us know.

The topic of sensuality and sexuality is taboo and even more so for Black women and femmes however, reclaiming our sensuality is integral to embodied healing. I invited Sexuality Doula®, Ev’Yan Whitney because I knew they could guide us through the this conversation of coming home to our sensual selves with depth.

I’ve been following Ev’Yan’s work for a hot minute and I really love how they unapologetically center pleasure.

In this episode, we discuss…

• The role of self-responsibility in pleasure
• The key distinctions between sensuality and sexuality
• Why it’s important for Black folks to move beyond our collective pain
• Ev’yan also shares their experience of coming out as both non-binary and on the ACE spectrum

If you want to reclaim your most sensual self then this conversation is well worth the listen.

During this episode, I announce the podcast’s first giveaway! Listen and find out how to win a copy of Ev’Yan’s new book + a ticket my Decolonial Visioning 2022 workshop!

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EPISODE REFERENCES + RESOURCES

The Limits of Sex Positivity by Angela Chen (The Atlantic)

Sensual Self by Ev’Yan Whitney

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I’m deeply devoted to creating a culture that’s rooted in justice, liberation and equity and to me that means decolonizing healing and leadership. As someone who holds space for the Black community, for communities of color and for mixed groups (where people of races, class, and backgrounds come together) I can share that there’s individual work for of us to do and there’s collective work for us to do together.

We can’t heal if we don’t address the elephant in the room. Our healing requires us to orient towards new furtures that I know we’re capable of creating.

Our interconnectedness can no longer be denied or ignored because all of our lives depends on it. And it starts with our bodies.

This is our second Forbes feature this year and my prayer is that this work reaches those who need it most. If you enjoyed this article please share it with your community, this is for all of us.

Thérèse Cator Shares How We Can Connect With Our Bodies To Promote Racial Healing

by Janice Gassam Asare for Forbes

Until we are able to create tools that allow us to travel in time, we cannot go back and right the wrongs of our past. The popular saying says that hindsight is 20/20; but does a world and specifically a country that is marred with racial scars have the hindsight to heal and repair? The backlash against the teaching of Black history, critical race theory, and the banning of books like Beloved would say no. We are still struggling towards the point of understanding—we don’t have the hindsight yet to fully conceive the ways that racism impacts every structure and system that we exist within. What does the process of healing look like for individuals and communities? Thérèse Cator is a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner who specializes in helping people develop a connection to their bodies that promotes wellness and healing. Cator’s work provides an intersectional and decolonial lens that is rare in an “overwhelming white, ableist and self-centered” somatics field. Cator sat down with Forbes to share more about her work and how we, as a society, can move towards a place of greater wellness and healing.

Continue reading the article here.

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This week I was also interviewed by Sarah Regan of MindBodyGreen on soul searching: What it means and how to do it.

And that got me thinking, birthdays can be a time of celebration but it’s also a time of deep introspection. I kinda feel to some degree soul searching and birthdays go hand-in-hand. That’s probably the Scorpio in me talking.

However, soul searching doesn’t only happen on birthdays: A breakup, a move, a new opportunity, losing a loved one, a new baby, the pandemic are just some of the things that come to mind. Sometimes our soul searching quests can feel easeful and other times it can feel like the dark night of the soul that never ends or even somewhere in the messy middle.

What’s not often discussed is that living in a culture that thrives on certainty and capitalism soul searching can be seen as a failure instead of a completely normal and necessary part of our human experience.

If right now you’re searching your soul for deeper clarity and alignment I’m cheering you on and I hope this can serve as a lighthouse.

​What Soul Searching Really Means & 9 Ways To Do It, From Experts​

by Sarah Regan for MindBodyGreen

Whether you’re feeling lost, stuck, or simply uninspired, it can be hard to ignore when soul searching needs to take place. But how do you actually get started? To find out, we asked experts about their tips for soul searching, plus what it really means.

What “soul searching” really means.

Continue reading the article here.

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1. Embodied Black Girl’s 3rd Annual Global Healing Day is in the works! This is a free event for Black women and femme identified folks to come together and center our healing. Join the waitlist for 2022 at: embodiedblackgirl.com

2. I’m hosting a brand new free workshop entitled Get Free: Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Pain and Reclaim Healing and Joy as Your Birthright. Catch it while it’s available at: getfree.me

I’m so happy to be sharing today’s episode with none other than Sonya Renee Taylor. Sonya was our special guest at this year’s Embodied Black Girl, 2nd Annual Global Healing Day! To say that this conversation was fiyaaah is an understatement! After Global Healing Day, we received so many requests to make this conversation available widely and I’m overjoyed to be sharing it with you today!

This conversation is nothing short of medicine for us all. This is about reclaiming radical self-love for ourselves and our communities.

In this episode, we discuss…

• What it means to radically love ourselves at this moment in time
• How surrendering at the interpersonal level, systemic and structural level is necessary for change
• The importance of disrupting body terrorism
• Divesting from the version of “bland” self-love that we’ve been sold into
• Plus, Sonya answers some juicy questions from Global Healing Day attendees

You’ll want to grab your journal and something to write with for this one!

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Global Healing Day

Get Free: Free Workshop

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Today, I break all contracts with the situations, systems and structures that impede the highest expression of who I am.
I am sourced from the divine.
I am covered in grace.
Today, I root to my radiance.
Today, I remember my boundless spirit.
Today, I rise as freedom’s song crescendos in my soul.
I am love actualized.
I am liberation realized.
I am my ancestor’s wildest dreams materialized.
Today, I am free.
I am free.
I am free.
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You’re welcome to to share this with your friends and community.

Header image by Jessica Felicio

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Second, I announce that Embodied Solidarity, my 8-week communal exploration for white folks to uproot white supremacy in themselves and their leadership and stand on the side of liberation, justice and equity for all is open for enrollment through this weekend only. In my work with Black women and WOC I hear all the time about the violence that’s perpetuated by white folks in workplaces, public spaces, wellness spaces, schools you name it. My prayer is that this work helps create a safer and liberatory world for us all. Learn more at: www.theresecator.com/solidarity

Today’s conversation with Leesa Renée Hall stands the test of time! Leesa who I’ve been connected to for a number of years now shares her grounded wisdom on unpacking unconscious biases and the power of reflective writing that transformed her life. This episode is about honoring who we are while becoming better ancestors in the process.

In this episode, we discuss…

• The importance of exploring our stories as it relates to our social and biological identities
• Healing through reflecting writing
• Occupying space as a Black person
• How to create safer spaces for BIPOC
• The power in letting your work not be for everyone (if you’re devoted to sharing your sacred work with the world listen to this)

I hope you enjoy the episode!

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Embodied Solidarity

No Disrespect Circle Agreements by Leesa Renée Hall

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The conversation of abolishing the police is at the forefront yet, there’s so much resistance to this step by people who deeply invested in a system that’s unjust. However, I know it’s up to us to imagine a more beautiful world where our communities aren’t policed and surveilled.

In many ways, I believe the act of divesting from the imprints of colonization is vital in weaving the new world. Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mullan of Decolonizing Therapy who I connected to on Instagram to speak about the importance of  decolonization and the ways it intersects with rage and healing.

In this episode, we discuss…

• What is decolonization and how has it been appropriated
• Each of our individual roles in decolonizing based on our identities
• The importance of reclaiming rage and how unaddressed rage can manifest
• Coming out of the closet spiritually to share our gifts
• Having reverence in our work of decolonizing and breaking intergenerational and ancestral patterns

I hope you enjoy the many threads that guide us towards reimagining a more just world.

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Healing Rage by Ruth King

Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

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We’ve been experiencing massive amounts of snow over here (and throughout the United States). For us, that means we’ve been mainly inside except for short periodic outdoor adventures. And six people (kids and grown folk) inside for that long isn’t really conducive to recording a podcast. But I was finally able to get enough quiet (praise Spirit for warmer weather) so here we are.

In this first solo episode, I share…

• A new approach to introductions
• What my work is in devotion to and why
• Why the liberation of Black women is where it’s at for all of us
• The importance of community
• How I’m untethering from what bell hooks calls the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
• What I’m 100% D-O-N-E with (you probably want to be done with this too)
• Also, don’t miss the story on the ways my father affirmed me and how that informs who I am today
• And more lessons I’m leaning into during this new season

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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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The EMBODIED BLACK GIRL PODCAST is here!!!

And today the trailer is out in the world!

I’ve been gently nurturing this labor of love and it’s been deep medicine for me. It’s been a space to alchemize sorrow, fear and anger. It’s also been a playground for liberation, creativity and love.

I invite you to check out the trailer and subscribe.

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This is for us.

Our magic.

Our healing.

Our liberation.

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Yesterday would have been his 26th birthday.

Yet, tomorrow his mother Wanda Jones will be without him. There are countless black mothers who’ve had to bury children due to senseless hatred.

Today…

We pray for Wanda Jones, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother.

We pray for Allison Jean, Botham Jean’s mother.

We pray for Charmaine Edwards, Jordan Edwards’ mother.

We pray for Dominika Stanley, Aiyana Stanley Jones’ mother.

We pray for Geneva Reed-Veal, Sandra Bland’s mother.

We pray for Georgia Ferrell, Jonathan Ferrell’s mother.

We pray for Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother.

We pray for Lesley McSpadden, Mike Brown’s mother.

We pray for Lucy McBath, Jordan Davis’ mother.

We pray for Maria Hamilton, Dontre Hamilton’s mother.

We pray for Kadiatou Diallo, Amadou Diallo’s mother.

We pray for Monica McBride, Renisha McBride’s mother.

We pray for Samaria Rice, Tamir Rice’s mother.

We pray for Se’Quette Clark, Stephon Clark’s mother.

We pray for Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother.

We pray for Valerie Bell, Sean Bell’s mother.

We pray for Valerie Castile, Philando Castile’s mother.

We pray Yolanda Carr, Atatiana Jefferson’s mother.

We pray for all the black mothers who have lost children to hatred.

We pray for black mothers who’s hearts are weary, who are tired, who are afraid, who are grieving and who need comfort now.

May your children who are no longer here be held in our ancestors’ embrace.

May all of our children who are with us be protected.

May you be granted sweet grace. May love enter every cell of your being. May you be comforted. May you find peace. May you be made new.

Àṣẹ. Aameen. Amen.

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