The Beautiful Thing About Dreaming with Tara Rin Burke (Part II)

What is a personalized book prescription? Why isn't bibliotherapy more mainstream?  We continue chatting with Bijal Shah, a book curator bibliotherapist, freelance journalist, author and poet, about these questions and more. 

📗 Check out Bijal's new book! Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading

📗 Connect with Bijal online via her website or via bijal@booktherapy.io.

📗 You can also follow Bijal's work on bibliotherapy via X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

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✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

Today we're talking about the restorative power of reading with Bijal Shah, a book curator bibliotherapist, freelance journalist, author and poet.

📗 Check out Bijal's new book! Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading

📗 Connect with Bijal online via her website or via bijal@booktherapy.io.

📗 You can also follow Bijal's work on bibliotherapy via X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

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✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

"Every client's process is going to unfold very differently, and that healing is not linear or predictable."

"Check for qualifications... You've got to really trust your gut feeling about the person. Beware of overcharging."

"Reiki energy exists on a totally different plane than our 3D reality. It's able to transcend space and time as we understand it."

"There's been a lot of changes... The healthcare system over here, it's like eliminated a huge stress for me not having to worry about not having health insurance."

🔮 Welcome back to part two of my conversation with Makenzie Flynn! 

🔮 In part one we provided an overview of what Reiki is, and while we do touch on Reiki in this episode, we expand the conversation to many more topics. 

Makenzie's journey contains multitudes in that her journey is evolving, and we discuss that in today's episode. We talk about:

• Integrity in the spirituality industry
• Choosing spiritual practitioners
• Moving to Australia 
• Starting a new business 
• Food pop-ups and food activism 

🌿 Be sure to follow Makenzie on IG! You can follow her @conjurewellness and @plantfoodforthesoul.
🌿 Check out the healing mists! At fluxenergyhealing.com and on IG @fluxenergyhealing.

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✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

✨ A quick note about ways to connect and work with me!  You can find more career sessions and podcast sessions here.

🪩 On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

"My actual first session... I felt like I was floating and also sinking down at the same time... I just felt like I was held, like being fully supported."

🔮 What is Reiki? In this episode we talk with Reiki Master Makenzie Flynn on the essence of Reiki, its history and origins, and more. 

🔮 This is part one of a two-part conversation with Makenzie. Be sure to subscribe to Multitudes to hear part two!

Topics we discuss:

• The basics and background of Reiki 
• Reiki experiences and personal practices
• Becoming trained in Reiki practices
• The intuitive nature of Reiki
• Life-force energy and energy flow. 

🌿 Be sure to follow Makenzie on IG! You can follow her @conjurewellness and @plantfoodforthesoul. 

🌿 Check out the healing mists! At fluxenergyhealing.com and on IG @fluxenergyhealing. 

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✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

"We really show people how indeed [mixed race identity] has shaped everything in their life."

"There's so much education... specifically with parenting, so much of it is just having the awareness that your mixed race child is going to have a different walk than them."

Welcome back to part 2 of my conversation with Meagan and Jazmine of Mixed in America. In this episode we chat about:

• empowering journeys of mixed race individuals
• the evolution of exploring mixed race identity 
• challenges in running a community organization and business 
• providing education and awareness for mixed race parents
• what's next for Mixed in America

Follow Mixed in America on IG at @mixed_in_america
Check out all that Mixed in America offers at mixedinamerica.org

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✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

🔔 Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

🙌🏽 You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

 "It was born out of our own need to communicate what this experience actually is like, the fullness of its complexity, and a desperate cry for community." 

"I just learned how to become the least triggering version for whoever was in front of me."

"We're not gonna ignore us. You're not gonna erase the multiracial experience anymore. Let's talk about it. Let's get rid of the binary and really talk about the in between."

Learn more in this conversation with Meagan and Jazmine, co-founders of Mixed in America. (This is part one, of a two-part conversation.)

• Meagan and Jazmine are mixed identity specialists who are dedicated to healing and empowering the mixed community.
• They have built a community organization via Instagram specifically for mixed race people, which has over 27,000 followers. And you can check them out at @mixed_in_america.
• And be sure to check out their website mixedinamerica.org! You can find out more about their  trauma-informed workshops, programs, events, seminars, lectures, online courses, and coaching services for the mixed race community. 

What do we talk about in this episode?
The mixed race experience; racial fluidity; erasure; Mixed in America's work; and our personal journeys as mixed-race individuals.

And welcome back to Multitudes, Season 2!

✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life. Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

✨ You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

Check out the Misfits Makin’ It: Oddballs Doing Cool Stuff! Misfits Makin' It is the podcast component of the misfit comedy shows produced by Lauren LoGiudice.
 
🪩 Check out show dates and info at www.laurenlogiudice.com
🪩 Follow Lauren on Instagram: @laurenlogi
🪩 Check out Lauren's podcast! 

✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life. Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode!

✨ You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

✨ Welcome back to Multitudes, Season 2! 

✨ On Multitudes, we talk about a multitude of different types of experiences, perspectives, and have conversations with different guests who offer their wisdom and the tools that have helped them navigate their life.

✨ Be sure to subscribe and share Multitudes with your family and friends!

✨ Tune in every other Tuesday for a new guest episode.

✨ You can find out more about Multitudes by checking out multitudespodcast.com and heading over to our IG @multitudes.podcast. 

*This is the last episode of Season 1 of Multitudes! It's been such a wonderful season, and thank you so much for tuning in. Please stay in touch via www.multitudespodcast.com and @multitudes.podcast on IG, and we'll see you soon!*

In case you missed this wonderful conversation - today's episode is, "Being an Activist and Author with EbonyJanice."

This episode is a re-air of our conversation from April, and we are celebrating the recent publishing of her new book, available now!

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“I have no dream job, I do not dream of labor.” - James Baldwin

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender" - Alice Walker

If you're interested in womanism and feminism, the connection between religion and authority, activism, racial justice, and being at ease - this conversation is it! 

In this episode we also talk about EbonyJanice's new book, and how her personal life and love of romance were a part of her book writing process.

Music: (Intro) incapable by shamgang + (Outro) Drumagade by Guustaav

We ask questions:

• What does it mean to be an activist?  
• How can embracing softness be a form of activism? 
• What does it mean to decolonize authority?

Who is EbonyJanice?

EbonyJanice is the founder and CEO of The Free People Project and The EbonyJanice Project.  She has authored several books, including “Sacred Text for Black Folks Soul: A Book You Should Leave On Your Altar.”  The core and center of her work is the professional and personal liberation of Black Women and Femmes. You may know her from numerous guest appearances on Podcasts, Youtube channels, and Instagram Lives, where she talks about Decolonizing Authority, Racial Justice, Black Women’s Body Ownership, and Womanist Theology.

• EbonyJanice’s Website: www.ebonyjanice.com
• EbonyJanice’s Instagram: @ebonyjanice 

You can support EbonyJanice by ordering her new book, which we discuss in our conversation. “All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance”

Check out the book here:

• Socialight Society
• Barnes and Noble
• Amazon

Where you can find me:

•  www.multitudespodcast.com
• Instagram: @multitudes.podcast