Welcome back for another episode of the Healing Soul Podcast, beautiful souls.

These conversations are truly nourishing to the soul and today's conversation is just as healing for our guests, listeners, as well as our host.

In today's conversation, we speak with the multi-talented Racquel Bernard aka Jahmi Roc. Loving the direction of the conversation as Jahmi Roc shares about her healing journey and the tools that she uses, including her spiritual umbrella, the tools she uses to support her through her most challenging times inlcuding being in an abusive relationship and temporary homelessness.

Racquel Bernard is originally from Kingston Jamaica and is a PhD student in Musicology based in Los Angeles. Racquel is a scholar, singer-songwriter, dance enthusiast and single mom. Her favorite genres of music are r&b, reggae, dancehall, gospel and hip hop. She works in the admissions consulting industry assisting prospective undergraduate and graduate students apply to their schools and programs of interest. Bernard founded College Rocqet which expands pro-bono and need-aware access to college counseling.

As an individual with a mental health diagnosis, she has invested in her own self-care and partnered with mental health professionals to achieve stability and growth. The lessons she has learned while managing her own diagnosis range from setting and protecting boundaries, mindfulness, journaling, visual art practice, self-directed music-making, and exploring various coping strategies. She shares her experiences candidly and openly in order to defeat the stigma around mental illness.

Racquel voices and critiques the problems of racism, classicism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia and ableism. Whether through her musicological research, her music, or everyday conversations with her associates, she seeks to actualize freedom and build a future of equity and justice.

She enjoys languages like Patwa (Jamaican Creole), Spanish and Portuguese. A graduate of Dartmouth College in African and African American Studies and the University of the West Indies (Mona) in Cultural Studies (of Institute of Caribbean Studies), questions of belonging, culture, social systems and power drive her to learn and unlearn ideas about our world.

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YouTube: Jahmi Roc

Podcast: Jahmi Roc's Jottings

Music: Jahmi Roc's Spotify Page

College Admission Support: College Rocqet

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