What if you had a space where you could breathe, release, and remember who you are—no explanations, no performance, just presence?

In this episode, we step into The Black Healing Room—a sanctuary we can carry with us, anywhere.

This is Part 2 of The Black Healing Summer Session—a season-long journey into rest, release, and renewal.

You’ll experience a special Comforting Moment guided visualization to help you imagine your own healing space. And in the Beyond the Story segment, Ama-Robin explores the importance of both individual and collective Black healing—and the radical, liberating power of daydreaming.

✨ Come as you are.
✨ Take what you need.
✨ You ain’t imagining this.

In this first episode of The Black Healing Summer Session, host and storyteller Ama-Robin invites you into a powerful reflection on what happens when we stop carrying everything alone.

Through an immersive story, she shares the experience of a Black woman professional who finally decides to lay down the invisible burdens she’s been holding: perfectionism, hypervigilance, and the relentless pressure to prove herself.

In the Beyond the Story segment, Ama-Robin reads Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask,” and explores how generational expectations to stay “strong” have shaped—and strained—our spirits.

✨ 3 Things You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• A moment of quiet liberation in a work parking lot that becomes the start of real healing

• A reflection on how ancestral wisdom helps us unlearn what exhausts us

• Simple, powerful practices to release what you no longer want to carry

This is the beginning of The Black Healing Summer Session—a season-long journey into rest, release, and renewal.

Come as you are. Take what you need.
And remember: you ain’t imagining this.

🎧 If this story resonates, subscribe, share, and join us for the full series.

Juneteenth has passed—but we’re not moving on.
Because we still don’t have full freedom. And we damn sure don’t have true liberation.

This Believe Black People episode of You Ain’t Imagining This! was generously loaned by the Espresso Talk Today team—and we thank them deeply for this offering.

In this powerful audio celebration, you’ll hear:
📖 An original, fact-based Juneteenth story read by Marlene Slaughter
📜 A historical reflection from Elder Mel, reading a rare first-person account from her great-grandaunt Miss Rosina Hoard—who had been enslaved in Texas
💬 A deep, unflinching discussion about what Juneteenth means, how it’s been commercialized, and what still needs to change for Black folks in the U.S.

This is more than a commemoration. It’s cultural clarity.
It’s remembrance.
It’s resistance.
And yes, it’s a celebration too—featuring the voice of Nina Simone singing “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free.”

🖤 Come as you are. Take what you need.
And don’t let this day—or what it stands for—be forgotten.