You Can Rest Here | A Comforting Moment
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Have you been carrying too much? Do you need a place to exhale? In this Comforting Moment, we return to higher ground—not to analyze, debate, or prove anything, but simply to be. This is a gentle gathering on the Front Porch of YAIT Town, a steady space where you can set things down for a moment and let your body soften. No urgency. No pressure. Just a few quiet minutes of calm, presence, and reminder: you are visible here, and you can rest here. And you can return again and again. You ain't imagining this!
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Porch Moment: I was Invisibilized!
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Have you ever been present in a room… and still made to feel invisible? In this Porch Moment, Ama-Robin shares a quiet classroom memory about being told to make herself “invisible.” There’s no lesson and no urgency—just a brief, honest reflection on what invisibility can feel like in the body. A small story about a small moment that stayed. Please join us on the front porch in YAIT Town. You’re not imagining this.
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YAIT Town Story: The Body Remembers
You Ain’t Imagining This!
Have you ever remembered something from years ago — and felt it in your body today? A graduation that made you stand taller. A classroom that made your stomach tighten. A moment of pride that still warms your chest — or a moment of dismissal that still lingers. In this YAIT Town Story, The Body Remembers, we return to the Front Porch in YAIT Town, where conversation, memory, and community reveal a deeper truth: history doesn’t only live in books. It lives in the body. Through an immersive story and a thoughtful Beyond the Story reflection, Ama-Robin explores racialized body memory,...
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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....
info_outlineThis final episode of the Black Summer Healing Session is a sacred invitation to pause. Across seven weeks, we’ve released burdens, reclaimed joy, and restored balance. Now, Ama-Robin presents this episode, While I Rest. This meditative episode offers a soft place to breathe and remember.
✨ You’ll receive seven remembrances—one from each session—to guide your reflection.
✨ You’ll hear a closing folktale that reminds us why rest is holy.
✨ You’ll be invited into a gentle ritual of gratitude and self-affirmation.
Rest is not weakness. Rest is healing. Rest is liberation.
Asante sana for journeying through this Black Summer Healing Session. If this episode spoke to you, please like or share it with someone who needs a moment of rest today.