The shape of season 3 has been different from the earlier seasons in that we had two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. With our main season 3 provocations being love, discernment and surrender we thought no one could be more perfect to wrap it up with us than a very dear teacher of ours, Drisana McDaniel!

Drisana McDaniel (she/her) is a Narrative Doula, educator, and doctoral candidate whose work lives at the intersections of Black feminist and womanist wisdom, psychospiritual inquiry, and ecological care. She supports individuals and communities in bringing forward life-shaping stories—about healing, leadership, justice, and belonging—with truth, tenderness, and integrity.

Through her framework, Alchemy of Now, Drisana offers narrative coaching, learning design, and facilitation rooted in healing-centered education. Her work honors lived experience as a source of legitimate knowledge—without reducing people to data or rushing them past their own knowing.

She is currently completing her doctoral research in psychospiritual ecology, exploring the connections between inner life, collective healing, and ecological consciousness. Her practice is shaped by reverence for nonlinear time, mutual witnessing, and the slow, embodied processes that help us remember how to live in relationship—with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by The Healing Helix.

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The shape of season 3 is different from the earlier seasons in that we have two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. Our season 3 provocations are love, discernment and surrender. Join us, Angela Carolina and Lauren, as we use our stories to play with these concepts for Episodes 2-5.

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by The Healing Helix.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The shape of season 3 is different from the earlier seasons in that we have two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. Our season 3 provocations are love, discernment and surrender. Join us, Angela Carolina and Lauren, as we use our stories to play with these concepts for Episodes 2-5.

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

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This week it's just Lauren and Angela!

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

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The shape of season 3 will be different from the earlier seasons in that we have two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. With our main season 3 provocations being love, discernment and surrender we thought no one could be more perfect to kick it off with us than a very dear teacher of ours, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz!

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. is a Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the 2024 New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award winner. Her research has appeared in several top-tier academic journals. She is co-editor of five books and is co-author of the multiple award-winning book Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces (2021) where she examines her concept of Archeology of Self ™ in education. For three years in a row, she was named one of EdWeek's EduScholar Influencers -- a list of the Top 1% of educational scholars in the United States -- a highly selective group of 200 scholars (chosen from a pool of 20,000).

At Teachers College, she is the founder of the Racial Literacy Project @TC, and the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series, where for 15 years, national scholars, teachers, and students facilitate conversations around race and other issues involving diversity. Yolanda appeared in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright” (2016), a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou, and "Defining Us, Children at the Crossroads of Change, a documentary about supporting and educating the nation's Black and Latinae male youth. Yolanda's first full-length collection of poetry, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, was published in March 2020. Her sophomore book of poetry, The Peace Chronicles, was published in July, 2021. Yolanda opened the 2022 TEDx UPENN conference at the University of Pennsylvania with her TEDx Talk: Truth, Love & Racial Literacy. Connect with Yolanda on Twitter at @RuizSealey and on Instagram at @yolie_sealeyruiz

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

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We're back for Season 3! Hosts Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble give a quick preview of the season. As always, thanks for joining us.

Visit our website to read more about us or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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In this episode we talk with one of our teachers in the healing centered education world, Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond. Dr. Kia is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and coach, as well as creator of the Bridge to Thriving Framework©, co-author of The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning: Five Essentials for Equity, and co-editor of T* Is for Thriving: Blueprints for Affirming Trans* and Gender Creative Lives and Learning in Schools.

As CEO of Wise Chipmunk LLC, a research and education firm, she leverages over 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, education, and youth development to offer research, advising, coaching, and public speaking, as well as designs for professional learning, curriculum development, and organizational

Growth.

Dr. Kia’s work emphasizes the importance of combining the science of learning and development with healing- and transformative justice to promote an evolution toward true thriving for all. This approach is grounded in the knowledge that innovation driven by the wisdom of those furthest from power is key to improving

everyone’s lives.

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Have a listen to Episode 5 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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In this episode we talk with Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, Executive Director Chloe Day School & Wellness Center, former Pastor at Emanuel AME Tuckahoe Church, and fellow healing-centered educator. The Chloe Day School and Wellness Center is a Reggio Emilia-inspired progressive, inclusive, trauma-informed preschool and community wellness space that embraces families and individuals from all backgrounds. Their preschool and wellness space takes a progressive, trauma-informed – approach to learning, child development, healing, and family empowerment. They believe that children are intrinsically curious and can make meaningful discoveries when given opportunities to explore, play, and experience their environment.

Their Wellness Center, the Healing Space, is a wellness collective aimed at helping the Harlem community find healing from trauma and intergenerational trauma. By supporting people in being intentional about their healing and wellness, they take a person-centered approach to their work.

Visit our website to read more about us or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Episode 6 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.