I appreciate the writing from Tre Johnson:  When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs, that our YHC member pointed me to:

“The confusing, perhaps contradictory advice on what white people should do probably feels maddening. To be told to step up, no step back, read, no listen, protest, don’t protest, check on black friends, leave us alone, ask for help or do the work — it probably feels contradictory at times. And yet, you’ll figure it out. Black people have been similarly exhausted making the case for jobs, freedom, happiness, justice, equality and the like. It’s made us dizzy, but we’ve managed to find the means to walk straight.”

I find myself needing resources. I asked a few BIPOC Yoga Health Coaches what resources they wanted to share with our Yoga Health Coaches. I started Eddie Moore Jr’s 21 Day Racial Equity Challenge.

I’ve come to terms that every post I write, every podcast I record, every book I release offends someone. Yet, these efforts heal more than they offend. I’m sure someone will be offended by our attends to educate ourselves as healers trying to be part of the solution for more people of any color or creed to thrive in their bodies and their lives.

Yet, still, I know that it’s harder to publish than to just have an opinion. Or just read a book. I believe in education and dialogue.

This list was compiled by Romy Toussant, Alicia Malcolm-Anderson and myself.

Social Justice Summer Reads

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
• Womanly Magazine https://www.womanlymag.com/
• Raising Free People

• Psychologist uses computer-simulated patients to untangle sociological influences in pain care
• Pain and Ethnicity by Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA
• What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?
• Senior primary care and racism experts condemn ‘whitewashed’ PHE report

What to Watch to Widen Your Understanding

• Psychologist uses computer-simulated patients to untangle sociological influences in pain care
• Pain and Ethnicity by Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA
• What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?
• Senior primary care and racism experts condemn ‘whitewashed’ PHE report

Social Justice + Wellness Influencers

• Ogor: A UX designer shifting the culture of #wellness https://www.instagram.com/ogorchukwuu/
• Outdoor Afro: We celebrate & inspire Black leadership in nature – tag yourself #OutdoorAfro wherever you are found in nature! https://www.instagram.com/outdoorafro/
• Fare of the Free Child: Unschooler exploring privilege & power in relationships w/ children: https://www.instagram.com/fareofthefreechild/
• Nutrition Tips With a Cultured Twist with Maya Feller: https://www.instagram.com/mayafellerrd/
• A Black-owned social and wellness club designed to celebrate people of color, online and IRL: Naj Austin’s Ethels’s Club: https://www.instagram.com/ethelsclub/
• Founder of @wellreadblackgirl Glory Edim’s Guide to Glo: https://www.instagram.com/guidetoglo/
• Well Read Black Girl: Support Black girls, women & non-binary writers! Founder: Glory Edim: https://www.instagram.com/wellreadblackgirl/

Green Girl Leah: 〰️Intersectional Environmentalism〰️⋒ activist + eco-communicato: https://www.instagram.com/greengirlleah/