The Wintering Room: A Story to Help You Rest This Winter
Release Date: 12/10/2025
Black Invisibility: Personal. Deliberate. Real.
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Have you ever noticed that certain experiences feel obvious to you — but invisible to others? Have you ever tried to explain a moment of bias or dismissal, only to be told it probably wasn’t about race? What do we mean when we say Black invisibility? In this Espresso Talk — a calm, focused reflection grounded in lived experience — Ama-Robin sits inside Nommo Bookstore in YAIT Town and names a reality many Black people live with daily: being present but unseen, harmed but doubted, accomplished but erased. During Black History Month — a time that appears to center Black visibility —...
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Gathering on Higher Ground (Part II): We Are Building This Together
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Loved the first part? Want to stay on the Front Porch a little longer? Thank you for continuing this important, family-friendly Black History Month Village Story. In Part Two of Gathering on Higher Ground, we remain on the Front Porch of YAIT Town, where remembering gently turns into building--together. This final chapter reflects on how Black history lives in everyday moments: shared food, questions asked out loud, elders teaching in different ways, and the quiet work of belonging. The episode closes with a Beyond the Story reflection, where Ama-Robin shares why this story was told and how...
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Gathering on Higher Ground (Part I): A YAIT Town Story
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Feeling tired of loud stories and heavy explanations? Join Ama-Robin on the Front Porch of YAIT Town for a gentle, family-friendly Village Story created especially for Black History Month. Gathering on Higher Ground is a calm, immersive story—free of stress, conflict, or drama—that reflects on what Black history really holds: community, wisdom, joy, survival, and belonging. This story invites listeners of all ages to sit together, ask questions, and remember that Black history is more than struggle—it is a living, breathing inheritance. Part Two of the story is already waiting for...
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Pockets of Safety: Finding moments of ease, care, and dignity and why that matters
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Feeling braced or on edge today? Join Ama-Robin in Umoja Café for a gentle Espresso Talk about pockets of safety—those small moments where the body can exhale and the nervous system can settle. Through a short folktale and real-life reflections as a Black woman living in predominantly white spaces, this episode explores how safety is felt, why it matters, and how noticing it becomes the first step toward imagining a way of living with dignity. About YAIT (You Ain’t Imagining This!) YAIT is a Black-centered reflection and storytelling space exploring what it means to live with dignity,...
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A Comforting Moment: Safety Begins Here
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Do you feel safe? This Comforting Moment focuses on safety as the foundation for everything else. Through gentle guidance and quiet presence, this episode invites listeners to slow down, release urgency, and begin from a place where the body does not have to brace. You don’t need answers or a plan—just a safe place to begin. Sistah-host Ama-Robin guides you through this Comforting Moment and invites you to begin gently. Comforting Moments are short, intentional audio pauses designed to help the body settle and the nervous system soften. They matter because when we’re constantly...
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The World We Practice Here: A Comforting, Restorative YAIT Village Story
You Ain’t Imagining This!
The World We Practice Here is a calm, immersive YAIT Village Story created for listeners who need relief from constant urgency, tension, and emotional noise. This is a drama-free and conflict-free story—not because nothing matters, but because not everything needs to escalate to hold meaning. There’s no violence, no confrontation, and no manufactured suspense. Instead, the story invites you into ordinary moments of Black life where safety is assumed, dignity is intact, and the nervous system can finally soften. You’ll follow a gentle walk through YAIT Town—past familiar places,...
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Sounds of Safety: The Front Porch
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Sounds of Safety is a gentle audio offering rooted in the Black tradition of the front porch—a place of watching, listening, resting, and belonging. You’ll hear everyday porch sounds: distant voices, footsteps passing by, wind in the trees, birds, quiet movement, and moments of silence. Nothing demands your attention. Nothing needs fixing. This is an invitation to let your body remember what it feels like to be safe enough to simply be. You can listen while resting, after a difficult moment, or as part of winding down—allowing your nervous system to soften and your breath to settle....
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Umoja: A Comforting Moment for Feeling Connected
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This Comforting Moment marks the first day of Kwanzaa — Umoja, the principle of Unity. In this gentle gathering in the Umoja Cafe in YAIT Town, we pause to remember that we were never meant to carry life alone. YAIT Town is a living sanctuary built through story, reflection, and shared breath — a place you can return to for rest, truth, and connection. Alongside Comforting Moments like this one, You Ain’t Imagining This! offers: Immersive and Sensory Stories that invite you into Black spaces, memories, and moments. Believe Black People episodes that name and challenge racism and the...
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We Carry the Light: A Comforting Moment for Dark Winter Days
You Ain’t Imagining This!
On the longest nights of the year, we gather on the Front Porch in YAIT Town to remember that we don’t face the darkness alone. We Carry the Light is a gentle, Comforting Moment centered on Black joy, ancestral presence, shared hope, and the quiet warmth we give one another — even when the world goes dim. Comforting Moments are short, restful episodes meant to be used however you need them: while resting, walking, sitting in the dark, or simply breathing. These are pauses, not lessons — places to land, soften, and be held. You’re always welcome here — come join us on the Front Porch....
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The Wintering Room: A Story to Help You Rest This Winter
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In this YAIT Town Story, we step inside Nommo Books and discover the mysterious Wintering Room — a sanctuary that appears only in December. This fictional tale carries real and relevant truths about rest, darkness, and cultural wisdom. Ama-Robin, a Black empowerment storyteller, guides us through a mystical yet grounded journey that reminds us: winter isn’t a season to push through; it’s an invitation to soften, breathe, and reclaim the pace nature intended.
info_outlineIn this YAIT Town Story, we step inside Nommo Books and discover the mysterious Wintering Room — a sanctuary that appears only in December.
This fictional tale carries real and relevant truths about rest, darkness, and cultural wisdom. Ama-Robin, a Black empowerment storyteller, guides us through a mystical yet grounded journey that reminds us: winter isn’t a season to push through; it’s an invitation to soften, breathe, and reclaim the pace nature intended.