Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends
A 90-Day Journal for Diaspora Healing

Roots and Rest™

Ninety days of turning toward the inherited self; the ancestrally shaped self, the body that has been
carrying more than it should have carried alone. Each day carries a diaspora-specific affirmation, four
prompts, an Ancestor Acknowledgment line, and a practices checklist rooted in the tradition. Each week
closes with a reflection page. The companion to The Inheritance. Both tracks. All ninety days.

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Roots and Rest™

This journal is an act of witness. Not therapy, not self-improvement: witness. The simple, profound act of
turning your attention toward your own inherited inner life with honesty and without judgment. Naming what
is present. Tracking what shifts. Allowing the nervous system to do what neuroscience tells us it does when
we write honestly over time: activate the prefrontal cortex, reduce amygdala reactivity, and move, slowly and
consistently, toward greater regulation.
What makes this journal different from Return to Regulation is the lens. The cortisol burden of racial stress is
documented and measurable. The intergenerational transmission of hypervigilance is real. The serotonin
cost of code-switching, of chronic threat assessment, of being required to carry more than any person
should carry — these are not metaphors. They are physiology. This journal names them. Every day.
Each day carries a diaspora-specific affirmation, four prompts: Morning, Midday check-in, Evening, and
Deep work; write lines after each, an Ancestor Acknowledgment line, and a practices checklist rooted in
the tradition: morning intention, ancestral food, sunlight, movement, cultural connection, rest, and
breathwork. Each week closes with a five-question reflection page.
Ninety days. Thirteen weeks. Both tracks running. The ancestors watching. Write in the morning when you
can. Write for yourself and for every ancestor who was never given this space. They survived so that we
could live. We heal so that those who come from us can finally flourish.

Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Fiction to faith to self-help, my books open minds without being pushy. Writing is as natural to me as breathing, and every one begs the question: What if?

Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Mia Bowman-Mays is a multi-genre author with prolific insight into the world and how we were created to be. This is seen in all of her publications, whether fiction, non-fiction, spiritual-fiction, spiritual non-fiction, or self-help.

Ms. Bowman hopes to be one of many authors who decide to step out and walk in their created purpose. This site is a gathering place for her work and the work of friends who share that calling. Our goal? To lift authors up where they belong and create an Information Army!

Quick Note on our "Tended Reading" Books:

What is a Tended Reading™?

A Tended Reading™ is a single volume where the book and its meditation are woven together as one cloth. It is not a book with a study guide tacked on the end. You read a passage, and then, before you turn to the next, you stop and "tend" what you have just read: an anchor verse, a short meditation, a question, witnesses from the wider family of faith across the centuries, and prompts with room to write in your own hand.

An orchard is not skimmed; it is walked. A Tended Reading™ is a book built to be walked.

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