A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: #GriefAND Thanksgiving

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Bonus Episode 42: #GriefAND Thanksgiving featuring Patricia Raybon. Patricia is an award-winning Colorado author, essayist, and novelist who writes stories of faith and mystery. Her debut 1920s mystery novel, All That Is Secret: An Annalee Spain Mystery, was a Parade magazine fall 2021 “Mysteries We Love” selection and a PBS Masterpiece’s “Best Mystery Books of 2021: As Recommended by Bestselling Authors.” As an African American follower of Christ, she encourages people globally to love God and each other. patriciaraybon.com

Even though we are talking more about mental health that doesn’t mean we are getting better.

Dr. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

In this episode, Patricia opens by sharing about her personal story and also her journey as a writer and author. Our conversation then pivots to Patricia and I opening up about the grief of losing a parent around the holidays and the toll it can take on the family. Patricia talks about the importance of grief but also understanding the process of grief and being willing to go through that process. The discussion then moves to the topic of thanksgiving, sharing about what we are thankful for and the importance of being thankful.

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Resources

If you would like to read the book that was mentioned in the podcast, My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness by Patricia Raybon you can do so HERE

You can read more of Patricia Raybon’s work at her website: patriciaraybon.com

A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: #GriefAND Generation Z

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Episode 41: #GriefAND Generation Z featuring Medgina Saint-Elien. Medgina is a writer and creative who is called to highlight the elephant in the room throughout her work. This Haitian American poet is a Fulbright Scholar and an emerging voice of direction in the media industry. She redefines beauty at Byrdie Beauty, Snapchat, and beyond to amplify the stories of Women of Color.

How do you love your neighbors as yourself if you don’t even love yourself. It’s having grace that I am not this perfect flawless person.

Medgina Saint-Elien

In this episode Medgina begins our conversation by sharing her personal life story and her journey of discovering the difference between joy and happiness. She also shares about much of her story has been a journey of restoring her innocence and her perception of God. Our conversation then shifts to the idea that we need to let go of certain things in our life, and even if we think it can’t be that simple, we just have to let it go. Medgina also shares about her grief of not accepting herself sooner in light of who God made her to be. Medgina then shares her insights into the needs of Generation Z and how at the core this generation is searching for identity. We then move our discussion to looking at the impacts of social media on Generation Z and how it affects their need for identity.

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Connect with Medgina Saint-Elien on Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/itsmedgina/

Resources

If you would like to follow the work that Medgina does you can visit her website House Beautiful

One of the resources that was mentioned in today’s episode was The Social Dilemma a Netflix documentary about the impact of technology on today’s generations. To learn more about this documentary or to watch it you can do so at: https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

A Sojourner’s Truth Podcast: #Grief, Poetry, AND Artistic Expression

This season of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast is brought to you by The Voices Collection of Our Daily Bread Ministries. Find out more at experiencevoices.org. Also, check out the “Where Ya From?” Podcast. Purchase my new release from ODBM The Voices Collection, Journey to Freedom, Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible study. 

Episode 40: #Grief, Poetry AND Artistic Expression featuring Grace P. Cho. Grace is a Korean American writer, poet, speaker, and acquisitions editor at Revell. She creates space for people to be known, nurtured, and challenged through her work and desires to elevate women of color’s voices in the publishing industry.  She is also the co-editor of Take Heart: 100 Devotions to Seeing God When Life’s Not Okay, co-author of Empowered: More of Him for All of You, and the author of the (in)courage Bible studies, Courageous Influence and Create in Me a Heart of Wisdom.

We can find one another in our loneliness, in the grief, we can find one another as we grieve, and we can even build a togetherness and a belonging.

Grace P. Cho

In this episode, my conversation with Grace P. Cho starts out by touching on the topic of identity and how many of us often hide pieces of who we are, based on the boxes that people put us in or that we put ourselves in. Grace goes on to share her journey of becoming a poet and also shares the story behind her first ever published poem in the Voices of Lament book project. Our discussion then moves into the various forms of artistic expression and how every form of art is a way for people to express the emotions they are feeling, whether it be grief, joy, pain or happiness.

Thank you for joining us on A Sojourner’s Truth podcast. Continue the conversation by joining my Patreon community at patreon.com/asojournerstruth.   

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Resources

If you would like to learn more about or purchase the Voices of Lament book you can do so at http://www.natashasrobinson.com/voicesoflament

If you would like to purchase Empowered: More of Him for All of You a book co-authored by Grace you can do so HERE

If you would like to purchase Grace P. Cho’s book Create in Me a heart of Wisdom you can do so HERE

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