The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose Ruth King on Healing Racism
Ruth King is an emotional wisdom author, coach, and consultant. She's a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and she's on the teacher's council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In addition, she's the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC. She has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and is the author of several publications including her new book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. In this stirring, thoughtful and wise conversation, she touches on the heart of racism and teaches how we can move to heal this heart disease.
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In This Interview, Ruth King and I Discuss...
- Her book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out
- The value of being curious about the good and bad wolves inside of us
- Racism being a heart disease that is curable
- Her open heart surgery at the age of 27
- Rage being an exit route
- Rage being energy moving through the body
- Habitual patterns of racism being a layer on top of the real issue that we can't tolerate - they are defense mechanisms
- Racial affinity groups
- 6 hindrances
- The structure of racism
- Racism vs Prejudice
- Racist vs Racism
- Understanding our own experience with racism and talking about it
- What it's like to be "membered"
- Individual vs group identity
- Diversity within the body of color
Ruth King Links
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