Spirituality & Love at the Center of Anti-racism with Porsha Beed

Rising Women Leaders

It was an honor to sit down for this heart opening conversation with a personal mentor and friend, Porsha Beed.

It was just before the pandemic when I first met Porsha in a song circle in Sebastopol, CA. I was touched by the songs her and co-founder Aaron Johnson shared with our group and how effortlessly they brought us into our hearts. I attended their daylong anti-racism workshop and went on to work privately with Porsha to move through my own grief around racism, look at my own blind spots as a white woman with privilege and come into deeper alignment with how I show up for my work, friends and larger community.

I think a lot of white people do end up (sadly) avoiding relationships with people of other races because of the shame and guilt that often arises. When we focus on the fear and guilt, we take the focus away from truly getting to know and caring for person of another race.

Porsha is here and reaching for us to heal this divide. May this conversation open a door for us all to look within, to heal, and to create a better future for all the generations to come.

In this episode we discussed:

• Approaching anti-racism work through song and building relationships

• Healing and tending to grief

• Letting go of perfectionism and embracing willingness

• Spirituality and love at the center of anti-racism and social justice movements

• Healing shame to let down barriers and form true relationships

• Stories of healing from Porsha’s work

• The importance of self-forgiveness

• All about Porsha’s upcoming deep dive series, “Can You Hear Me?” (Links below)

• How Porsha overcomes fear and doubt and anchors back into her roots and reasons behind this work

• A beautiful song to remember our connection to spirit

Links in this episode:

Join Porsha for one of her upcoming deep dives:

• Song Power Hour with Songleader Lyndsey Scott ( September 28 5-6pm PT): https://fb.me/e/1KfDTZtFL

• Can you Hear me deep dive 1( October 1, 12-2 pm PT): https://fb.me/e/3QDkZhoMP

• Can You Feel Me? deep dive 2 (October 7, 5-7pm PT): https://fb.me/e/20vk01lUX

• Can You Hold Me? deep dive 3 (October 15, 12-2pm PT): https://fb.me/e/2JJSm0kRv

  Stay in Touch with Porsha:

• You can connect with Porsha, register for her offerings and learn more about her work at [e-mail]

• Instagram: @porshabeed

• Facebook: porshabeed

• Holistic Resistance - https://www.holisticresistance.com

• Grief to Action - https://www.grieftoaction.com

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  Porsha Beed (she/her) is a co-founder of Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action. Porsha is a practitioner of love, grief work, and deep heart/soul work. She is a mentor, love prophet, poet, spiritual healer and facilitator who pulls from a spiritual ancestral lineage and the earth as guides to support and hold her as she works towards a vision of healing work that aids in the dismantling of racism and oppression. She weaves her African heritage and queer experiences into seeds that she sows in her authentic creative expressions through facilitation, ritual practices, poetry, and song.