Episode #173: Kwanzaa Principles with the Bryant Family

The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

Dr. Thema

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Kwanzaa is an African American celebration which focuses on seven African-inspired principles for living well. The principles are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. Dr. Thema is joined for this special episode by her family: Bishop John Bryant, Rev. Cecelia Bryant, and Rev. Jamal Bryant as they describe the cultural, spiritual, and psychological significance of the principles.

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0:00.0	Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tema, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist. And this
0:18.4	is Homecoming, a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself. While I will provide
0:25.7	weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this podcast is not the same as personalized therapy.
0:32.8	I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you want to request specific topics or to submit a
0:38.4	poem for me to read on the podcast, email me at homecomingpodcastsatgmail.com. Also to build our
0:47.4	community, don't forget to like, subscribe and share. Let's begin.
0:54.1	Welcome home co-journers. I'm so glad you're here for another episode. And I'm excited we have
1:00.8	a poem submission that one of you sent in for this week. And the poem is written by Dorothy
1:07.5	Doris Anvil. And I'm going to read an excerpt. It's called womb. You feel that something in your womb?
1:17.9	That's no baby, but there's life. There's life in there. Not human. It holds the past, the present
1:25.6	and the future. It holds your sorrows, your joys, your peace, your sadness, your gladness.
1:32.7	There's life in there. Not human, but you take care of it. You guard it. You heal it. You release.
1:41.0	What no longer serves the wound, the pain, the spirits of those oppressors. In your womb, you are now safe.
1:50.9	You are so safe to trust your womb. Nurture your womb. Give birth and bring life to your dreams.
2:01.2	To hear that thumping, there's life in there. There's life.
2:08.0	Thank you so much, Dorothy. I love your poem. And I am so excited that it's an alignment with this
2:16.4	week's episode. We're going to be talking about Kwanza. And I'm saying we because I'm excited this
2:23.8	week I'm being joined by my immediate family. My father, my mother and my brother are all going
2:31.2	to help me talk to you this week about Kwanza as we think about it from the perspective of mental
2:38.3	health and as we think about it holistically. So for those who are not familiar, Kwanza is an
2:45.3	African inspired holiday, which was created by African Americans. It utilizes Swahili and English
2:54.4	to bring home seven principles, seven key principles for us to live well. And we think about living
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