Dr. Shelly Harrell, Contributor at Mindful.org

Born and raised in Detroit, Dr. Shelly Harrell is an award-winning Harvard-educated and UCLA-trained psychologist, as well as a certified meditation teacher. As an experienced psychotherapist, mentor, and professor she has been helping, healing, teaching, and training for over 30 years. She is a researcher and published author in the areas of culture and psychotherapy, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of stress, racism and mental health, and psychological well-being among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Her soulfulness approach to wellness and resilience represents an integration of her work that is informed by cultural, African-centered, and liberation psychologies, contemplative practices, and stress science.

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A Meditation on the South African Greeting Sawubona (“We See You”)

In this guided practice, Shelly Harrell introduces us to a way of seeing others that encourages liberating awareness, caring connection, and deep acceptance. Read More

Shelly Harrell

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