From Root to Bone with Dr. Jenn Mullan

What happens when grief becomes a doorway instead of a destination?

In this deeply moving and soul-stirring conversation, Dr. Jen welcomes ancestral baba, medicine poet, and freedom worker Jaiya John to the From Root to Bone altar. Together, they explore the profound loneliness, grief, rage, and longing many of us are carrying in these times—and the sacred practices that can help us find our way home to ourselves.

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In this deeply moving conversation, Dr. Jennifer Mullan welcomes grief therapist, priestess, author, and soon-to-be Dr. Minerva Arias to explore grief as more than an emotional response to loss—it is a sacred relationship, a portal, and a teacher.

Drawing from her lived experience, ancestral traditions, and her work within Ifá and Lucumí cosmologies, Minerva shares how the sudden death of her beloved niece transformed her life...

In this deeply grounding and emotionally expansive conversation, Dr. Jennifer Mullan is joined by Leslie Priscilla and Fernando Deveras for a powerful dialogue on parenting, collective liberation, community care, and what it means to raise conscious children in a world shaped by oppression, violence, and disconnection. Together, they explore the intersections of decolonized parenting, organizing, healing, ancestral wisdom, and rela...

In conversation, Dr. Jennifer Mullan is in unfiltered conversation with Kim Young and Marvin Toliver—licensed social workers, cultural disruptors, and unapologetic truth-tellers. Together, they dive deep into the realities of mental health work, the violence embedded in traditional systems, and the radical act of showing up as your full, authentic self. From reflections on growing up Black in America to navigating overwhelmin...

n this deeply expansive and soul-stirring conversation, Dr. Jennifer Mullan welcomes renowned Buddhist teacher, author, and activist Lama Rod Owens to From Root to Bone. Together, they explore what it means to live, love, and lead from the marrow—where truth, grief, joy, and liberation all coexist.

From reflections on spiritual lineage and ancestral connection to the radical act of choosing joy in a world shaped by systemic ha...

Dr. Jennifer Mullan sits down with sexologist Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clark Carnegie for a powerful conversation on decolonizing sexuality, reclaiming the erotic as power, and healing beyond Western frameworks. Together, they explore pleasure, trauma, ancestral wisdom, and the radical act of imagining new ways of being. This episode is an invitation to reconnect with your body, your joy, and your liberation.

Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke...

Dr. Jennifer Mullan sits with somatic practitioners Nazbah Tom and Fayza Bundalli to explore healing through the body, ancestry, and collective liberation. Together they unpack burnout, nervous system wisdom, cultural lineage, and everyday resilience practices. This grounding conversation invites listeners to reconnect with embodied knowing and imagine more liberated futures.
Nazbah Tom (Dene) is a somatic practitioner based nea...

When white queerness can't always be trusted to keep in line with collective liberation, where do you turn? In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Mullen sits down with psychotherapist and writer Robert Downes for a powerful conversation about resistance, Black feminist thought, and the work of decolonizing therapy and the psyche. Together they explore rage, care, ancestry, and what it means to live and act with integrity in a world shaped ...

As Black and Brown descendants of people who survived through religious colonization, getting back to the spiritual practices and wisdom of those in our lineages can seem scary. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with practitioners of ancestral healing, Natoya Hall and Jen Maramba, to bring more lightness to spiritual wisdom lost to us. Natoya is a multidimensional healer, channel and spiritual teacher with over two decades of experie...

American colonialism has tried its best to erase the knowledge, traditions and population of those indigenous to this land. But the commitment to ancestral wisdom and practices, indigenous cultures continue to thrive. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with anti-colonial scholar, Dr. Autumn Blackdear about the power of native sovereignty.

Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Na...

In the era of self-care, what we've grown to know about caring for ourselves and regulating our nervous systems has become a slogan for luxury and self-centered action. But how can your commitment to softness and self-care also be care for those in your community? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with EbonyJanice, a free woman on a love journey, about her ethos for real soft girl shit.

EbonyJanice Moore is a Hip Hop Womanist, scholar...

Menticide, or the systematic and intentional undermining of a person's conscious mind, effectively "killing" or destroying their independent thought and beliefs, is one of the most effective ways to supress revolutionary change in a society. So how do we protect our communities from it? And what examples do we have to look to? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Dr. Evan Auguste about the effects of menticide and what we can learn...

On an Earth where abundant resources are exploited for profits and greed, often we are faced with the question - who is deserving of care? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Toi Smith about how she is ignoring the dehumanization of "deservedness" and helping Black women get what they need at all times.
Toi Smith is a Mother, a growth and impact strategist, and the founder of Loving Black Single Mothers. Toi’s experience...

The anticipation of the pain of grief can lead to an intense fear of loss that can color the way we move through the world. Trying to hold onto what we perceive as what is ours can make us self centered and unaware of the ways we perpetuate harm and sabotage connection and collective healing. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Breeshia Wade about the connection between grief, loss, fear and love.

Breeshia Wade is the auth...

As we learn to work with our feelings, the idea of "emotional regulation" becomes an ever present challenge that we are obsessed with mastering. But what exactly to we aim to do? What do the spikes in our emotions actually tell us about our overall mental health. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks to Aasia Lewis about emotional regulation and somatics.

Through her personal desire for a more embodied mental health practice, Aasia Lewis ...

When we think of healing and therapy, we often rush to the idea of diagnosing and fixing. But for some of us, the simple witnessing of our full selves, with space to feel physically what we are experiencing emotionally, our agency and ability to actually live in a way that serves us best, grows exponentially. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Chiara Francesca about the power of accompaniment, witnessing and somatic practice. The...

As we approach our awakening, a process of learning, unlearning, and owning the parts of ourselves that will serve our growth. In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Dr. Connie Wun about her unlearning, reclaiming, and in time using her lessons to empower and organize communities to be in solidarity, power and righteous rage. Dr. Wun reminds us of our humanity through our coming into consciousness.
Dr. Connie Wun is a researcher, ...

The root of personal innovation, the creation of new habits, processes and practices that help us along in our healing journey, often comes from witnessing the road that others have created to forge their paths. In this episode, Dr. Jenn welcomes Foluke Taylor, a psychotherapist and writer, to discuss themes of sisterhood, identity, and the significance of Black feminism. The conversation explores personal histories, the importance...

The root of our disconnection from self is sewn into the fabric of our society. The way we work, eat, socialize and communicate through toxic systems have a direct effect on our bodies. But what if we knew that we have all of the ancestral, spiritual and intuitive wisdom we need to facilitate our own healing? In this episode, Dr. Jenn talks with Alex March about how our spiritual and emotional healing is directly connected with our...