Welcome home

Yes, I am

Despite the lies I've been told I still am

Yes, it may seem a bit bold

But I am

Welcome home, Cojourners, I'm glad you're here for another episode. I'm Dr. Tama Bryant, a licensed psychologist, ordained elder and sacred artists. And today we're going to be talking about birthing freedom.

Burthing freedom with our special return guest, Dr. Jaya John.

If you have not heard prior episodes we have shared with Dr. John, I encourage you to look back in the archives

because those are definitely a treat. Dr. Jaya John was orphan born in the high desert of New Mexico and is an internationally

recognized freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker.

Jaya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression.

He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University

and has spoken to over a million people worldwide, and audiences as large as several thousand.

Jaya holds doctorate in master's degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on

intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis and Clark College in

Portland, Oregon, and lived in Nepal, where he studied Tibetan holistic medicine through

independent research with Tibetan doctors and trek to the base camp of Mount

Everest. His indigenous soul dreams of fry bread, sweet grass, bamboos in the breeze, and turtle lakes

whose poetry is peace. Dr. Jaya John has his own podcast called I Will Read for You, the Voice and Writings of Jaya John,

and you can also follow his work on Substack. I am so excited. You are here. Welcome, Dr. Jaya.

Thank you so much, Dr. Tema. Yeah.

I'm thrilled to be with you today.

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