Sisters Gathering to Heal the Podcast
Sisters Gathering to Heal the Podcast: Courageous Conversations about Self-Love and Healing for Black Women. DeBora M. Ricks, Host, Self-Love Doula, Mother, Editor, Expat, Globetrotter, Author, Attorney, and Founder of Sisters Gathering to Heal, the Movement.
This sacred space is all about supporting Black women in Finding Our Voice, Coming Out of Hiding and Owning ALL of ourselves. We’ll dare you to be more Vocal, Visible and Vulnerable in service of loving and healing yourself because when Black women heal we heal generations.
Every two weeks, you can expect authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability as we share insights, stories, conversations, and interviews that will challenge you to love yourself first and to love yourself fiercely!
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Sis, Would YOU Date a Bus Driver ft. Perneita Farrar
Eboni K. Williams, attorney, multi-millionaire, TV personality, and podcaster told bestselling author, teacher, and healer Iyanla Vanzant that she would only date a bus driver if he owned the bus.…
Self-Care that Nurtures a Woman's Feminine Essence
It may be hard to hear, but truth be told many women are energetically more masculine than they are feminine. In episode S3 E12, I talk about how we hurt ourselves, repel masculine men, and damage o…
Self-Abandonment, Betrayal and Men
Episode S3 E11, was inspired by a conversation that I had with a classy, beautiful sisterfriend who finds herself smitten by a handsome, charming man who boomeranged back into her life. One night my …
7 Habits Holding You Back
If you're reading this, you still want more out of life. It's how humans are built. And it's also human to sometimes want something but find ourselves stuck or stalled because we're wrestling with fe…
The Path to Pleasure and Prioritizing Self-Care ft. Tosh Patterson
- We properly wrap up our Stop Calling Me Strong Series with an always timely conversation about self-care and pleasure. In episode S3 E9, I sat down with Certified Erotic Blueprint Pleasure & …
The Soft, Sweet, Giddy Black Woman ft. Sheila Gaskins
I had so much fun recording and editing this installment of the Stop Calling Me Strong series with Advocate, DEI Facilitator, Healer, Teaching Artist, Activist, Playwright, and Stand-Up Comic Sheila …
Why the Strong Black Woman Is Not Free ft. Diane Jones
Are you a strong black woman? Do you feel free?
In episode S3 E7 of the Stop Calling Me Strong series, I talk with therapist turned Life Coach, Diane Jones, who lives in Mexico where she is happily …
The Strong Black Woman Has Something to Prove ft. Jacqueline Lofton
Our Stop Calling Me Strong series continues with Speaker, Teacher, Advocate, and certified Life Coach, Jacqueline Lofton, once upon a time the quintessential strong black woman. Jacqueline took care…
Are You Too Strong for Your Own Good ft. Angela Williams
Our Stop Calling Me Strong Series continues. In episode S3 E5, I talk to Angela Williams who, only months after her 22-year-old son rear-ended a tractor-trailer, was diagnosed with breast cancer. An…
The Strong Black Woman, Vulnerability and Love ft. Renee Miller
For our Stop Calling Me Strong Series, in episode S3 E4, I talk with Love Coach Renee Miller who knew she was a catch. At least on paper. But her success, or lack thereof, in dating told a different …
I'm a Strong Black Woman and I Don’t Need a Man ft. Qurell-Amani
In episode S3 E3, Qurell-Amani, SAG-AFTRA writer, director, owner of sKribble sKratch Prods, and the author of Panther Woman: A One Woman Show adds her confident voice to our Stop Calling Me Strong s…
Never Look Like You're Struggling ft. Khadija Ali Wilson
We're back with another episode in the Stop Calling Me Strong series. In S3 E2 I talk with author, speaker, and the owner of Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful Coaching, Inc., and the Evelyn Rose Collecti…
Don't Let an Old Woman Move into Your Body
If you're like most women, you want to look and feel as youthful as humanly possible lol. If not, then this BONUS episode isn't for you lol. Share it with a friend though. Now, for the rest of you I …
Stop Calling Me Strong ft. Barbara Johnson Milburn
Happy New Year! In this new season, I'm doing a series entitled Stop Calling Me Strong. I'm conversing with Black women about the impact of the 'strong black woman's burden' on their lives and what, …
7 Habits Black Women Ought to Leave in 2022
If you're in the habit of not believing in yourself, pushing away money, deflecting compliments, signing up for struggle love, abandoning yourself, and letting fear have the last word, then episode S…
For Black Women Who Considered Suicide When Being Strong Wasn't Enough
I met with a lot of resistance when doing this episode. But to paraphrase 'black lesbian feminist warrior mother' Audre Lorde, my silence will not protect me. So I pushed forward because I personally…
The Courage to Conquer Loneliness
Awhile ago a woman that I know called me brave because in a blog I shared that I experienced loneliness when my daughter left for college. Loneliness is an epidemic in America and the UK, and yet mos…
Know Who Your Real Friends Are
You've undoubtedly heard about Shanquella Robinson, the lovely 25-year-old black woman who lost her life in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico when she traveled there with six so-called friends. In episode S2 13…
The Audacity of Men
I didn't know my socialization as a black girl meant that as a woman I would expect little from men and settle for even less. I had no idea that I was conditioned to accept 'struggle love' relationsh…
Finding the Courage to Leave ft. Ellen S. Wright
Do you feel stuck? Trapped? Alone? Did you do all the things that you were told would lead to happiness, abundance, and fulfillment only to discover you aren't any of those things?
In this episode,…