The Marrow of Grief as a River Home with Dr. Jaiya John

What happens when grief becomes a doorway instead of a destination?In this deeply moving and soul-stirring conversation, Dr. Jen welcomes ancestral baba, medicine poet, and freedom worker Jaiya John to the From Root to Bone altar. Together, they explore the profound loneliness, grief, rage, and longing many of us are carrying in these times—and the sacred practices that can help us find our way home to ourselves.Through storytelling, poetry, ancestral remembrance, and heartfelt reflection, Jaiya shares wisdom on ritual, ceremony, embodiment, collective healing, and the revolutionary power of slowing down. The conversation moves through themes of orphanhood, belonging, spiritual dehydration, grief as a living river, the relationship between rage and love, and the ways we can reclaim our humanity in a world that often asks us to abandon it.This episode is an invitation to breathe more deeply, grieve more honestly, receive soul medicine, and remember that even in our isolation, we are not alone.Connect with Dr. Jaiya John - jaiyajohn.com