Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of The Terry Cole Show.

I'm so excited to bring you this riveting conversation with my new pal, Stephen Washington.

He is the author of this beautiful book, recovering you soul care and mindful movement for overcoming

addiction, which I'm always interested in.

So besides being the author of the book, he's a former professional dancer who performed

on Broadway in the Lion King, and movement has inspired a lot of his recovery.

He does Chigong.

He is also a well-known Pilates teacher, but his life and the way that his energy is.

I actually visited Stephen and his husband, Lee Harris, who's a friend of mine, when

I was out in the L.A. recently, and I just loved his energy so much.

He really does live a joyful life of recovery and is so passionate about helping others,

and basically shares his story of being in a family where everyone was addicted to

something, and getting into recovery wasn't exactly considered like the coolest thing

in the world, and being a black man in America ain't easy, and being a gay black man in America

doesn't really end easy, so really just vulnerability shared his entire story in this interview,

but there's so much hope that he provides in this book and so many very accessible, great

ideas of ways that you can take better care of yourself right now, whether you are in

recovery or not.

So I don't think this book is only for folks in recovery.

I feel like anyone can gain something from this book, from my pal, Stephen Washington.

So I hope you enjoyed this interview as much as I enjoyed doing it.

This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole.

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