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The Complete Inheritance Tended Reading™ Edition

Before you were born, your nervous system was already being shaped by everything your grandparents survived. The terror of the Middle Passage. The sustained impossibility of enslavement. The grinding, never-fully-lifted weight of its aftermath. This is not metaphor. This is epigenetics. And it lives in your body right now.

This combined edition brings together two complete books in one volume, designed to be read and practiced together.

Part One is the Inheritance Tended Reading™ Edition; the complete diaspora healing framework with three-track workbook exercises woven directly into every chapter. The Woman's Inheritance, the Man's Inheritance, and the Bridge where both meet. All three tracks present in every section. Read it and practice it in the same breath.

Part Two is Roots and Rest™: A 90-Day Journal for Diaspora Healing. Ninety days of diaspora-specific affirmations, four daily prompts, an Ancestor Acknowledgment line on every page, and a practices checklist rooted in the tradition: ancestral food, sunlight, movement, cultural connection, rest, and breathwork. Each week closes with a reflection page holding all three tracks.

The framework and the ninety days. The reading and the doing. The science of what was done to the body and the daily practice of healing it.

The ancestors survived so that we could live. We heal so that those who come from us can finally flourish.

About the author

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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