The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley

Freedom isn’t just political — it’s embodied. In this season finale, Ìyá Ashley reflects on mental health + healing as liberation: the freedom to rest without guilt, love without fear, and choose how you heal. She invites listeners to carry what they’ve remembered into their next chapter with sovereignty and courage. Healing is the freedom fight. And you are already a part of it. ✨ Looking for ev...

You were never broken. Ìyá Ashley reminds us of an ancient truth shared across spiritual traditions: the medicine is already within you. Drawing from Ifá and other wisdom systems, she explores how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy impact our healing journeys.✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io/join to connect with nonclinical emotional suppor...

What if neurodivergence isn’t something to fix — but something to honor? Ìyá Ashley is joined by Latrel Dortch, founder of the Holistic Brain Center, to explore autism and neurodivergence through a spiritual and holistic lens. Together, they challenge dominant medical narratives and uplift neurodivergence as gift, intuition, and wisdom. This conversation invites us to listen more deeply — not just...

Healing has become an industry — but who does it actually serve? Ìyá Ashley interrogates the wellness economy, performative self-care, and systems that decide who is allowed to feel safe, soft, and whole. She offers grounded questions to help listeners discern whether healing spaces truly honor their identity, culture, and spirit. Decolonizing healing is not about aesthetics. It’s about dignity, a...

Why are African spiritual traditions so often erased, feared, or whispered about with shame? In this deeply personal episode, Ìyá Ashley shares her journey into African Traditional Religions (ATRs) and her initiation into Ifá. She explores Òrìṣàs, destiny, ancestral communication, and what it means to reclaim spiritual practices that survived colonization. These are not lost traditions. They are l...

Vodou has been misunderstood, feared, and demonized. But what if the fear was never about darkness — only about liberation? Ìyá Ashley reclaims the truth about Vodou as the spiritual engine of the Haitian Revolution — the most successful slave revolut in history. She explores how ceremony, ancestral guidance, and spiritual strategy made freedom possible. This is a powerful retelling of history, re...

Plant medicine is not a trend — it’s an inheritance. Ìyá Ashley shares her journey as a trained herbalist and explores plant medicine beyond tourism, psychedelics, and commercialization. She invites listeners into a slower, more reverent relationship with plants — as teachers, not tools. From everyday herbs to ancestral practices, this episode reminds us that nature remembers — and that healing be...

Bob Marley was more than a musician — he was a healer. Ìyá Ashley is joined by Kathryn Leary, longtime confidante of Bob Marley and founder of One Firelight, to explore music as medicine. Through deeply personal stories, they discuss sound, ancestral frequency, grief, and how spirit moves through song. This conversation reveals how Marley’s music continues to heal across generations — not as nosta...

We’ve been taught that healing happens alone. Our ancestors knew otherwise. Ìyá Ashley explores communal care as survival, strategy, and liberation work. Tracing movements from mutual aid to the Civil Rights era, she reminds us that healing has always been collective — and that community itself is medicine. This conversation challenges individualism, honors intergenerational wisdom, and asks what...

What if entrepreneurship isn’t just business — but a spiritual journey? Ìyá Ashley reframes the startup journey as a spiritual path of creation, self-knowing, and visibility. She shares the unseen lessons she learned while building MindRight Health — from rejection and scarcity to intuition, faith, and audacity. This episode is for founders, dreamers, and builders who reject hustle culture and kno...

Behind every system are people. Ìyá Ashley is joined by one of the top executive coaches for the US healthcare systems leaders, Micha’le Simmons, to go behind the curtain of the U.S. healthcare system. Together, they explore burnout, grief, leadership, and the emotional cost of sustaining systems that were never designed for wholeness. Through stories of crisis, loss, and embodied leadership, this...

Before therapy, there were elders. Before diagnoses, there were divinations. Ìyá Ashley invites you to remember what mental health looked like before it became a medical industry — and what it can still look like today if we choose. Drawing from her work as a mental health innovator, founder of MindRight Health, and an initiated Ìyánífá, she reframes healing as remembrance, not fixing. This episod...

Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit. The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it became an industry - and what it can still look like today. Hosted by Iyá Ashley, founder of MindRight Health and an initiated Ìyánífá in the African (Yorùbá) spiritual tradition of Ifá, this podcast invites listeners to exp...

Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit. The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it became an industry - and what it can still look like today. Hosted by Iyá Ashley, founder of MindRight Health and an initiated Ìyánífá in the African (Yorùbá) spiritual tradition of Ifá, this podcast invites listeners to exp...