Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host every other week, Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse, the brain-sensing headband.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share

their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices have the power to change our lives.

Today's guest is Ruth King, an international teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition,

a life coach and emotional wisdom teacher, and the author of an amazing book called Mindful of Race,

Transforming Racism from the Inside Out.

In this transformational book, Ruth shows us how to use mindfulness to explore our feelings

about race to really see how we've been conditioned and how this just might be at the root of our

suffering and confusion. She deeply believes that it's possible to shift our racial distress,

to change, and to reach across the giant divide and create a culture where we listen to and respect one another and begin to heal

our suffering. She is truly one of the most dynamic and compassionate people I know with a

giant heart. Before we get started, just a little reminder to check out our app Meditation Studio

with Meditations designed to help you with many

of life's challenges and to inspire you just when you need it. Now, here's Ruth. Ruth, it's just so

great to have you on Untangle today. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. I want to tell

our audience a little bit about your background and you grew up in the late

60s in South Central L.A. It was right in the heart of the civil rights movement. Can you tell us a little

bit about some of your observations and feelings during this time? Yes. I grew up in South Central Los Angeles. I come from a

family of eight. I have seven siblings. I actually have five now. And we grew up in a working class

neighborhood and with a single mom.

It was very alive in terms of civil rights activities, but it was also very alive with jazz.

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