Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends: Change Maker Michelle C. Johnson on Channeling a Book and Healing The Effects of Unexpressed Grief [episode 51]

Change Maker Michelle C. Johnson on Channeling a Book and Healing The Effects of Unexpressed Grief [episode 51]

Jun 10, 2021

Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares about knowing your capacity and creating space to grieve in a community of support. You’ll also hear about:

Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason, other than being Black
How we have been conditioned to grieve in isolation
On finding liberation and freedom in grief
TV as medicine

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Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle’s new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.

In this episode, we talk about:

Responding to heartbreak
Remembering your roots, and bringing forth your medicine
Michelle shares some stories of personal grief
How Michelle’s newest book was guided by Spirit
Integrating grief into healing work
Why we’re resistant to grief
On being conditioned to grieve in isolation
Finding freedom and liberation through grief
On calling in support from our guides and helpers
Why our capacity to hold grief is limited
How the Spirit can hold grief, even if our body cannot
On understanding your capacity for grief
Hypervigilance and why BIPOC folks need more space for rest
How our capacity shifts, depending on the identities we embody
On identifying what is grief and how it shows up
Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason
Grieving for the end of our life
Acknowledging grief and asking - is there heartbreak today?
On permission to grieve
Cry-constipation
On being witnessed and grieving in a community of support
TV as medicine
Seeking support for grief and depression
The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effect of unprocessed grief
Michelle shares about the upcoming 2nd edition of her book Skill in Action
And so much more!

Bonus Secret Episode! Get the grounding and clearing meditation with Michelle Cassandra Johnson at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Change Maker Michelle C. Johnson on Channeling a Book and Healing The Effects of Unexpressed Grief [episode 51]

Change Maker Michelle C. Johnson on Channeling a Book and Healing The Effects of Unexpressed Grief [episode 51]

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