Radical Restoration Podcast
Radical Restoration is your go-to cozy, nurturing 'pillow-talk' podcast that centers Black millennial women in their search for rest. Hosts Dr. Niecie Jones and Coach Bethany Cherry are compassionate, supportive, and authentic about radical rest, covering topics like recovery from exhaustion and living an authentic restful life. They share tools for finding respite from spaces that leave you feeling chronically distressed by the need to produce in our capitalistic society. They offer transformational strategies to go from feeling burned out to finding fulfillment in everyday life. Dr. Niecie and Coach Bethany aim to cultivate a safely held community for Black women who are aware of their need for recovery from exhaustion. Who long for an escape from hustle culture. Who crave a community they can depend on and trust in. Welcome home, sis.
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Dr. Niecie Jones - Instagram: @nieciejonesphd
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Radical Restoration Podcast
The "Soft Life" Trend - Part 2
We're back with our Part 2 episode on the 'Soft Life' trend! This episode explores how age, class, and race coincide with a Soft Life. We also chit-chat about why this lifestyle trend has evolved to become capitalist. Is it possible for anyone - no matter class, race, and age - to access a Soft Life as a path toward greater rest and restoration? Listen in as we present some accessible, non-problematic ways to adopt the mentality, state of being, feeling, and rest practice that the Soft Life can be for Black women.
Key Topics:
- How age, class, and race coincide with the Soft Life
- How the Soft Life is linked to white supremacy, patriarchy, and how women should perform their gender
- How the Soft Life privileges people with disposable income
- How Black women can re-brand and personalize the Soft Life as a rest practice: inclusive, accessible, and sustainable
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- “Gen Z’s Obsession with the Stay at Home Girlfriend” - YT video
- For Colored Nerds episode on the divine feminine and the divine masculine
- https://theeverygirl.com/soft-life/
- https://andscape.com/features/the-softlife-isnt-as-easy-as-it-looks-online/
- https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/15/black-women-soft-life/
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