Learning to Love What You Don’t Like | Oneika Mays on Mindfulness, Rikers Island & Radical Loving Kindness
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Learning to Love What You Don’t Like | Oneika Mays on Mindfulness, Rikers Island & Radical Loving Kindness
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What if you don’t have to like someone to love them?
In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, I was honored to sit down down with mindfulness coach, yoga teacher, and master storyteller Oneika Mays to explore what it means to practice loving kindness in the hardest places — including Rikers Island and how these experiences inspired her new book: Sit with Me: A No BS Journey to Mindfulness & Meditation.
Oneika spent years teaching meditation and yoga inside one of the most notorious jails in the country. What she discovered there reshaped her understanding of agency, boundaries, spirituality, and hope.
Together, we discuss:
- Why mindfulness belongs in places we overlook
- The radical power of choice in environments with no agency
- Loving people you disagree with
- Leaving work that no longer aligns with your body
- Grief, hope, and the moment Onika’s father died
- Writing through rejection (15 no’s before a yes)
- And why loving yourself is the first act of activism
Onieka’s new book Sit With Me is part memoir, part field guide, and part meditation on meta — the Buddhist practice of loving kindness. It’s a deeply human invitation to embrace the messy, clunky parts of ourselves.
This episode is a reminder that hope doesn’t require perfection. It requires presence.
✨ Connect with Oneika:
Instagram: @OneikaMays
Substack: Oneika Mays
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