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July 3, 2025 22 mins

In this first episode of The Black Healing Summer Session, host and storyteller Ama-Robin invites you into a powerful reflection on what happens when we stop carrying everything alone.

Through an immersive story, she shares the experience of a Black woman professional who finally decides to lay down the invisible burdens she’s been holding: perfectionism, hypervigilance, and the relentless pressure to prove herself.

In the Beyond the Story segment, Ama-Robin reads Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask,” and explores how generational expectations to stay “strong” have shaped—and strained—our spirits.

3 Things You’ll Hear in This Episode:

  • A moment of quiet liberation in a work parking lot that becomes the start of real healing

  • A reflection on how ancestral wisdom helps us unlearn what exhausts us

  • Simple, powerful practices to release what you no longer want to carry

This is the beginning of The Black Healing Summer Session—a season-long journey into rest, release, and renewal.

Come as you are. Take what you need.
And remember: you ain’t imagining this.

🎧 If this story resonates, subscribe, share, and join us for the full series.

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