The Story with Charu

Charu Kumarhia

What are the stories we are told and what are the stories we believe? In most newsrooms across the world there is a morning meeting where reporters discuss the most important stories of the day and which ones to put resources into covering. We live in a time where information comes at us fast. It’s hard to take a breath or know what to trust. Knowledge is power, and when you know better you do better. I want to explore the questions we need to be asking, the stories we need to hear and what exactly is the truth.

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Soul Essence & Other Spiritual Talk

The Story with Charu

06/24/21 • 33 min

Tamanna Raisinghani is a software enginneer who has a side hustle of being a spirtualist. From a young age, she found herself asking questions and seeking answers.
Her musings have found an audience online. In this conversation she and journalist Charu Kumarhia talk about their shared history growing up as Hindus and how it relates to spritual understanding.
Here are some of Raisinghani’s articles:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/souls-resonance_b_8427392
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post_10009_b_8180898

https://indiacurrents.com/decoding-mindfulness/
https://indiacurrents.com/do-you-work-2/

https://indiacurrents.com/unpeeling-the-real-me/

https://indiacurrents.com/an-unusual-whatsapp-rendezvous/

https://medium.com/@t.raisinghani/my-dream-house-a0ee9c544de9

https://medium.com/@t.raisinghani/nothing-out-of-box-about-it-60b63906262a

https://indiacurrents.com/40-life-lessons-on-turning-40/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-holding-you-back_b_9722152

https://traisinghani.wixsite.com/cupofcoffee/single-post/2018/03/12/impressions-of-a-bumpy-ride

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Episode 1 - Why now? Why Diwali?

The Story with Charu

10/24/19 • 6 min

Journalist and writer Charu Kumarhia talks about why she chose to launch the new podcast “The Story With Charu” on Diwali. Diwali is Hindu new year and a great time to start something new. Follow @thestorywithcharu on Instagram or visit www.charukumarhia.com

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The Search for Sasquatch

The Story with Charu

12/01/22 • 22 min

The legend, the myth, the theory - whatever you want to call it - of Big Foot has captivated our imaginations for generations.
In her new book journalist, podcast host and author Laura Krantz breaks down the science and the myth of the legendary creature for the middle school set (or anyone else who is just curious...)
https://www.foxtopus.ink/wildthing
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127485114/bigfoot-book-searching-for-sasquatch

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Part 3: Race & Identity, Who Are We?

The Story with Charu

12/05/19 • 12 min

The last episode in a 3 part series on race and cultural identity in the United States. Out of our differences a strength can emerge if we want it.

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2020 Ends - But Are We Really Done With It?

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12/17/20 • 14 min

Season 5 of The Story with Charu podcast wraps up with the host’s thoughts on the oddest year in most people’s lives.

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Overthrowing the Colonizers

The Story with Charu

06/10/21 • 49 min

Dr. Jennifer Mullan trained as a psychologist but quickly realized that so much of what we call therapy doesn’t get to the root of systematic oppression. That realization led her to start Decolonizing Therapy. In this interview she talks about that work.
Find more here:
https://www.drjennifermullan.com/
Dr. Jennifer Mullan creates spaces for people and organizations to heal. She believes that it is essential to create a dialogue to address how mental health is deeply affected by systemic inequities and the trauma of oppression. Dr. Mullan has earned her Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D) in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies; a Master’s in Counseling & Community Agencies from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education; and her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Elementary Education, from New Jersey City University. She notes that her dissertation: “Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Inner-City African American Male Youth: From the Cotton Fields to the Concrete Jungle,” has been a primary foundation for her current work in furthering emotional wellness on a larger collective scale for communities of color. Dr. Mullan is currently a full-time Psychologist at New Jersey City University’s Counseling Center, facilitator for the campus LGBTQIA+ Support group, Coordinator of the University’s nationally recognized Peer Education program (Peers Educating Peers). She has almost 15 years of experience in clinical practice, higher education, teaching, and grant writing. She is passionately committed to solidarity work that effectively addresses inequities based on race, gender, class, ability, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Her professional research and clinical interests include complex and intergenerational trauma, group psychotherapy, LGBTQIA wellness, spirituality & mindfulness practices, racism as trauma, healing in therapeutic settings, self-love as a revolutionary act, and the process of decolonizing mental health.

Social Media has been a primary platform for Dr. Mullan’s current work in politicizing therapy and emotional health on a larger collective scale, with over 53K followers on Instagram. In 2019, she founded Decolonizing Therapy, LLC. They seek to create spaces to “call mental health professions IN” (rather than call people out). Dr. Mullan believes it is essential to ask mental health professionals to reassess their education, “whom they are serving? “and begin to question the relatability of the mental health industrial complex to the People they serve. It is her belief that we can tend to our emotional/ mental health AND hold systemic oppression accountable. You can frequently hear Dr. Mullan stating, “Everything is political!” Dr. Mullan also centralizes Historical and Intergenerational Trauma, which she identifies as Ancestral Trauma, at the crux of decolonization work. Through the movement of Decolonizing Therapy, Dr. Mullan can be found providing international keynotes, holding Radicalizing Rage workshops, doing Coaching sessions while un-training mental health professionals and providing Ancestral healing sessions.

Whether on stage or through her writing, Dr. Mullan offers conscious, clear, and authentic dialogue that is a healing i

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Unbothered, Isis Bey’s Story

The Story with Charu

03/18/21 • 41 min

In this interview, Isis Bey talks about how to come at the world from a place of power.
More info on the community center she started:
www.harmonyhealthpllc.com

How to support Harmony Health:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/harmony-health-mental-health-fund

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/a-lot-pain-charlotte-woman-shares-her-journey-surviving-sexual-abuse/QBYLQXZWPFFBTEKHLCPE427JNU/

Bey’s Bio:
Isis Bey is the founder and owner of Harmony Health Therapeutic Services and an Adjunct Professor with multiple Universities. Bey is also an NC Supervisor for Clinical Social Workers and currently completing her credits to supervise LCMHCA's in the future.
Ms. Bey completed her Graduate education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has over 20 years' experience working with children and families. She is Nationally Certified as an Advanced Level Complex Trauma Clinician, Gang Specialist and Parent Educator.
Her experience in the clinical field includes but is not limited to Crisis Intervention, Assessment, Individual, Groups and Couples Counseling, and Trauma. She also has practice experience using Mindfulness, Somatic Experience, Spiritual Social Work, African Drumming and Dance as a therapeutic tool. Her training/consulting experience includes Advocacy, Ethics, Implicit Bias, Systematic Disparities, Anti-Racism, Group Therapy, Child Welfare, Parent Education, Gang Intervention, Human Trafficking, Domestic and Teen Dating Violence. Ms. Bey has taught courses that include Group Therapy Advanced Practice, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Interpersonal Skills, Trauma and Social Work Practice, Generalist Social Work Practice, Social Work Ethics, Field Instruction and more.
Ms. Bey offers treatment, training and supervision through an Eclectic Humanistic Approach, which is a person-centered, strengths-based approach. The belief is that the participant is the expert of his or her life experiences. She is a guide and coach in the treatment or learning process, offering tools, feedback, resources, experiental learning, skills and techniques to assist the individual in the healing or learning process, and uses treatment modalities that are trauma-informed and evidence-based. Ms. Bey loves spending time with her family, engaging in community work and traveling.
www.harmonyhealthpllc.com

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The Village Witch Talks Healing America’s Soul

The Story with Charu

03/04/21 • 42 min

Byron Ballard grew up wild and “unchurched” in the mountains of rural western North Carolina. That lack of religious structure allowed her to grow her own spiritual practices - which later she would identify as Paganism/Wicca, a collection of earth based spirtual practices.
Such beliefs manifested around the world with similar ideas. Ballard is a folklorist specializing in the cultural history of the Scotch/Irish who immigrated to the Appalachian mountains.
You can find more about her here:
https://www.myvillagewitch.com/
If you order her latest book from Malaprops you can get a signed copy:
https://www.malaprops.com/book/9780738764535

H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at Sacred Space Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Glastonbury Goddess Conference, Heartland, Sirius Rising, Starwood, Scottish Pagan Federation Conference, Hexfest and other festivals and conferences. She serves as senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on “Wyrd Mountain Gals.”

Her essays are featured in several anthologies and she writes a regular column for SageWoman Magazine. Her books include “Staubs and Ditchwater” (2012), the companion volume “Asfidity and Mad-Stones” (2015) “Embracing Willendorf” (2017), “Earth Works: Ceremonies in Tower Time” (2018),“Roots, Branches, and Spirits: the Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia” fromLlewellyn (Feb. 2021) and “Seasons of a Magical Life: a Pagan Path of Living” (Weiser, August 2021). Upcoming: “The Ragged Wound: Tending the Soul of Appalachia” (Smith Bridge Press), “Porch Food: a cookbook from Wyrd Mountain” and a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Part 1: Race & Identity, My Story

The Story with Charu

11/14/19 • 14 min

In this first part of a 3 piece series on race and identity in America, Charu Kumarhia looks on her own life. Follow @thestorywithcharu on Instagram!

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Unlocking Our Past

The Story with Charu

12/10/20 • 29 min

Journalist Charu Kumarhia talks to Tammy Gibson who works to fund her travel passion. She uses those travels to educate those who follow her about Black and African culture.
Find out more about Sankofa TravelHer here:
Tammy Gibson, Entrepreneur, Travel Historian & Author
Purchase my book: https://www.sankofatravelher.com/book-honoring-the-legacy

Sankofa TravelHer

Black History Traveler & Blogger

"Black History Is More Than 28 Days"

Website: http://www.sankofatravelher.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SankofaTravelher/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/1BlessedCEO

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-gibson/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sankofatravelher/

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