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GirlTREK celebrates the power of Black women walking together for health and healing. Join us for walking meditations, wellness wisdom, and inspiring conversations with trailblazers changing the world one step at a time. From our popular Self-Care School program to stories from our million-strong sisterhood, we blend movement, joy, and ancestral wisdom in every episode. Whether you’re starting your wellness journey or deepening your practice, GirlTREK delivers empowering content that meets you where you are. Walk with us and discover how simple, daily movement can transform your life.

Latest Episodes:

21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 13 | Emma Dupree Jun 21, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Emma Dupree

Tantalizing Trivia:

She was an herbalist and traditional healer who grew up on the Tar River in North Carolina. Her pioneering work serves as the basis for much of today’s herbal medicine movement.
She was known for her “garden grown pharmacy” and grew everything from sassafras, white mint, double tansy, rabbit tobacco, maypop, mullein, catnip, horseradish, silkweed and other plants from which she made tonics, teas, salves and dried preparations.
She believed her gifts and understanding of herbs to be a gift directly from God and used the bible to guide her decision making.
She lived to be 99 years old and received the North Carolina lifetime achievement award, heritage award and the North Carolina Folklore Society for her significant contributions to her community.

Mirror Work:

Imagine that your ancestors stored the secrets of their survival in your DNA. Imagine the secrets pulsating through your body. Now quietly ask them, what do you have to tell me? Say to them, “It’s ok to share now. I am listening. I am paying attention. I hear you.” What was said? Spend five minutes journaling

Affirmation:

The intelligent wisdom that guarantees that the sun rises everyday, also lives in me. Each day I rise into its warm embrace and with that rising I am healed.

Pull at the Roots: A Playlist

Alchemy Assignment:

In her own words. Watch Emma Dupree share the wisdom of her work with us in an archival interview that is sure to inspire.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 12 | Lil Kim Jun 20, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Lil Kim

Tantalizing Trivia:

She is the original “Queen Bee”, also known as the Queen of Rap and The First Lady of Rap.
At 14, because of a tumultuous relationship with her father, she left home and started living on the streets; later she would drop out of high school for a short time, before enrolling in the same school where fellow rappers, Nas and Foxy Brown were attending.
By 19 she was a starring member in the rap group, Junior Mafia, the next year she went solo, with the highest debut of any female rap artist at the time.
In 2005, she was convicted on perjury charges regarding a 2001 shooting outside a New York radio station. She eventually served one year in prison.
Her entire career has been steeped in controversy. Some say her highly sexualized image and lyrics are seen as manifestations of the sexist, misogynistic ideologies embedded in rap culture. Others consider her a feminist, sec-positive icon who has empowered women to step into their sexual power and own a new image for themselves.

Mirror Work:

Make yourself the object of your own desire. Enjoy a post-shower love-fest of your body. Standing in the mirror, admire all of your dips, dimples and curves. See the sexiness in your survival, in your suppleness, in your self-love and adoration.

Affirmation:

I am proud to be a sexual being. I safely explore and embrace my sexual desires without guilt or shame.

Banish Shame: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

Good books to get you started on your journey to banishing shame.

Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy, By Tricia Rose
Stolen Women: Reclaiming our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives, By Dr. Gail Wyatt
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, By Joan Morgan

“The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy. I'm sorry. It is what it is. I'm dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.” - Lil Kim

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 11 | Naomi Sims Jun 16, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Naomi Sims

Tantalizing Trivia:

Naomi Sims is the first Black supermodel in history - certainly, the first Black cover girl to land the featured cover photo in major magazines like Life and Cosmo in the 1960s and 1970s
With a dark complexion, a thin body, and standing 5’ 10 she says she was not considered beautiful to others as a teenager. She thought otherwise.
She created a master plan to break into the racist modeling industry. When no agency would sign her, she represented herself and booked an advertising job and then - with that success - helped launch a brand new agency, Wilhelmina. It became the most prestigious agency in America.
At the height of the Black Power Movement, Naomi Sims became the very face of the “Black is Beautiful” ethos.
Sims went from modeling to mogul when she earned a cool 5 million in the 80s through a cosmetic and wig line developed expressly for Black women.

Mirror Work:

Without changing, notice your posture. What is it saying? Now turn on the playlist and dance to the pro-Black anthems. Notice your posture now.

Affirmation:

[Say it loud.]

I’m Black and I’m proud.

Stand Tall: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

Book a deep tissue massage to release any knots or tension.
Invest in a standing desk so that you don’t have to hunch at work.
Treat yourself to a new pair of heels so you can stunt on 'em like Naomi.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 10 | Sharon Schaffer Jun 15, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Sharon Schaffer

Tantalizing Trivia

She is the first Black woman to become a professional surfer and some of her work was featured in the opening of the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.
She was a pioneer as a stunt double in Hollywood. As an actress she toured the country playing Harriet Tubman.
She is an activist who has used her platform to organize other surfers into paddle-out protests to bring awareness to social justice issues.

Mirror Work:

It’s time for you to claim what’s yours. Stand tall in the mirror and call-out, “I got it!” Look yourself in the eyes. Are you convinced? Now say it with more authority, whatever wave is washing up next, whatever emotions are washing into your body, trust yourself. Look back into the mirror, into your eyes, and say louder, “I got it!” Repeat three times or as many times as you need until you believe it’s true.

Affirmation: I am prepared for whatever comes my way. I got it!

Wade in the Water: A Playlist

Alchemy Assignment:

Watch - Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture.
Read: Black Surfers Reclaim Their Place on the Wave

Self-Care Shopping List:

Do you dream of learning to swim? GirlTrek will support the first 10 women who email marketing@girltrek.org with the subject title “Swim Lessons” with two months of swim classes in your area to help you get started.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 9 | Mary McLeod Bethune Jun 14, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Mary McLeod Bethune

Tantalizing Trivia

Mary McLeod Bethune was not satisfied until Black girls were educated and free.
Born in South Carolina to parents of enslaved Africans, she was the 15th of 17 children. She worked the cotton fields with her mother and each afternoon, walked 5 miles to school to learn to read. Even then, she said she knew there was a calling on her life, a divine mission. She said, “For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”
She started early. She went to Bible school in Chicago, served in a Christian mission and started outreach to prisoners. Of her mento there, she said, ““I was so impressed with her fearlessness, her amazing touch in every respect, an energy that seemed inexhaustible and her mighty power to command respect and admiration from her students and all who knew her. She handled her domain with the art of a master.”
She moved to Florida to start a school. She raised money by making sweet potato pies, ice cream and fried fish and the students made ink for pens from elderberry juice and pencils from burned wood. That one room school house turned into Bethune-Cookman University, but she served as president for 20 years. She said, “I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a loving God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve."
She rode that wave of victory to global prominence as “The First Lady” of the Black Planet; founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the “Black Cabinet” as national advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the only Black woman to help charter the United Nations
Unveiled in 1974, today, there is a 17 ft bronze statue of Bethune in a public park in Washington, D.C. It is the first monument to honor an African-American or a woman on the national mall.

Affirmations

Inhale, satisfaction smells sweet; Exhale, everything is working for my good
I speak words that result in satisfactory experiences.
I rest satisfied with what I can do now to make the world better.
I live a life that is steeped in satisfying moments.
I will follow my bliss and surf my satisfaction. I will notice when I feel the charge of alignment in my soul and I will say yes! More of this.
Gratitude satisfies the soul.

Mirror Work:

See yourself as a surfer. …waiting on your board for the next big wave. Your feet can’t touch the ground and you’re far from the shore. Relax. Play. Smile. Dangle your feet in the living water. Your wave is coming. Your purpose today is to catch it. …a surge of satisfaction. This is soul work. Who or what is inspiring you to pop up? Which wave is calling you today? Wait for it. Not that one. Not that one. Connect and feel. Not that one. Wait for it. That one! Ride your own wave. The one that feels good and holds you steady. The wave of a good job, a rich experience, a nurturing relationship, a communal service. Your wave is coming today. Ride it and feel the rapture of being fully alive and satisfied.

Prayer for Pleasure

Dear God,

Call me. Make it clear which wave I should ride. I want to be satisfied with this one precious life. I want the exhilaration of being snatched up in satisfaction. Help me to see me as you see me. Give me the faith of my foremothers that life is good. Light my feet with the fire of purpose so that I can experience the rapture of being alive. Let me surrender to divine destiny and awesome alignment.

Amen.

Surf your satisfaction: A playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

Buy a beautiful journal and pen. Put it by your bedside Save the first page to write a Satisfaction List

“For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” - Mary McLeod Bethune

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 8 | Toni Cade Bambara Jun 12, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Toni Cade Bambara

Tantalizing Trivia:

Born Miltona Mirkin Cade, this author, activist, and professor, changed her name at the age of 6, to Toni. She then added Bambara to honor the West African ethnic group, Bambara.
Her anthology, “Black Woman”, was the first feminist collection to focus on Black women. It included works from her friends Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Alice Walker.
After the success of her two fiction books, Gorilla My Love and The Salt Eaters, she became a filmmaker, covering topics like the Philadelphia MOVE Bombing and the disappearance of over 40 children in Atlanta.
She believed strongly in clairvoyance, dream analysis, telepathy, and ancestral healing, and wrote about those themes in most of her work.
She died at 56 from colon cancer. Toni Morrison posthumously edited and published her last book, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions.

Mirror Work:

Do a two minute free write, completing the sentence, “The truth is, I…” There’s not right or wrong. Just let your truth, about whatever comes from your spirit, flow onto the paper. Now look at yourself in the mirror as you read it out loud. “The Truth is I…” Repeat three times. Look at yourself while you speak and honor the courage that it takes to face our truths head on.

Speak Your Truth: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

Pick up The Salt Eaters for yourself and Gorilla My Love for your pre-teen or teen to read this Summer.

“The dream is real my friend, it’s the failure to realize it that’s the unreality.” - Toni Cade Bambara

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 7 | Queen Afua Jun 12, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Queen Afua

Tantalizing Trivia

Born Helen Odel Robinson changed her name to Queen Afua
She was raised in Harlem at the height of the Black Nationalist Movement and was a community organizer.
As a child, she suffered from asthma, allergies, eczema and debilitating cramps and at 15 years old, started a lifelong investigation, and practice of healing herself - she started daily exercise, learning more about herbs and she changed her diet.
She experienced dramatic healing which led her on a spiritual quest, hearing directly from God, on several occasions, instructing her which plants and herbs to use for different ailments.
She tapped into ancient African traditions and combined those with her “impeccable listening” and intuition to launch her “Womb Healing Movement” that has helped over 1 million women.
She has become a wellness guru to generations of Black women including cultural leaders like Erykah Badu, India Arie, Jada Pinkett Smith, Iyanla Vanzant, Lauren London and Beverly Bond.
Queen Afua has written seven best-selling books that Center, African healing traditions and designed and led hundreds of workshops and retreats to heal Black women.

Mirror Work:

Look at yourself naked in the mirror. Relax. Smile. Say thank you to your body. Put your hands on your womb with loving kindness and imagine the inheritance of Divine Femininity that flows through you from your mother’s womb and her mother’s womb. Say I am the daughter of ____ who is the daughter of ____. Commit to listening to your womb. What is she telling you? What does she want you to shift in your life? How does she want you to heal yourself?

Awaken your womb: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

Buy the book Heal Thyself or Sacred Woman by Queen Afua on Amazon. Visit www.queenafua.com for womb retreats and juice plans. Go to a local tea shop and learn about herbal healing. Invest in a quality tea blend.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 6 | Dr. John Francis Jun 09, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Dr. John Francis

Tantalizing Trivia

He gave up using motorized transportation and took a vow of silence that was intended to last one day. It lasted for 17 years.
He completed three college degrees, including a Phd while silent.
He walked across the United States and is referred to as the “Planet Walker”.
He was a pioneer of Black conservatism and environmentalism.

Mirror Work:

While out on a walk find a patch of natural earth and take your shoes off. Look at your feet planted firmly on the ground. Imagine the healing powers of the universe shooting up through the arches of your feet. Feel stronger with each breath you take.

Watch: John in his own words, explain his journey in his TED talk,

Find Stillness: A Playlist

“You have to let go of the wanting to understand, you have to let go of wanting to possess the understanding and just be in that place.” - Dr. John Francis

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 5 | Alice Coachman Jun 08, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Alice Coachman

Tantalizing Trivia

Alice Coachman was the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal.
She was born in segregated Georgia and as a child picked cotton and sold peaches, pecans and plums to help support her family
She rejected the patriarchy and segregationists, both telling her Black girls should not be athletes; Shout out to two women who encouraged her to become a runner - her fifth-grade teacher Cora Bailey, and her aunt, Carrie Spry.
She ran barefoot on dirt roads to practice; Her stumbling block became her stepping stone and this kind of “no excuses” training made her the best athlete in Georgia in high school.
She was recruited by Tuskegee and won national championships for track and field and in 1948, dazzled the world in the Olympic Games! King George VI of England put some respect on her name and the gold medal around her neck.

Mirror Work:

Flex in the mirror. Yell “Game Time!” Start clapping. And run out of the bathroom like you believe in yourself. LOL

Affirmation:

I can do whatever I set my mind to.

Play Hard: A Playlist

Self Care Shopping List:

Splurge on a good pair of sneakers for yourself. The brighter color the better.

Activity for Alchemy:

Challenge a family member or neighbor to an old-school footrace. Ready? Set. Dust them fools.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 2 | Dr. Sebi Jun 04, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: Dr. Sebi

Tantalizing Trivia

He grew up in Honduras and got his foundation in herbalism from his grandmother.
He was arrested several times for practicing medicine without a license, but attracted a zealot following of believers who followed his lifestyle and diet advice.
Nipsey Hustle called him an underdog hero and champion of the truth.
He worked with Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, and Kendrick Lamar, just to name a few.
He pioneered a lot of the current popular health trends, including plant-based, fasting, knowing the PH balance of foods, and the healing benefits of sea moss.

Mirror Work: Gently massage your skin. Imagine that it is reflecting back to you everything that is inside. Notice where it is supple. Notice where it might be dehydrated. Notice your melanin. Give thanks that your body has the ability to process toxins and foods properly.

Affirmation: I tend to my body because it is a temple. I feed it food that is nourishing.

Release the Toxins: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List:

The next time you go grocery shopping. 2-3 Fruits or vegetables that you have never tried or rarely consume.

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

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