Sit with Me - by Oneika Mays (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Meditation is an effective way to manage anxiety and depression, insomnia, stress, and even some acute illnesses. If you want to become more aware and purposeful about your actions, mindfulness coach and Metta teacher, Oneika Mays can help you heal, develop communication skills, process forgiveness, and discover self-worth.

Sit with Me invites readers to learn how to:

Incorporate metta, meditation and lovingkindness into your life and discover how to deepen love for othersExpand your circles and mindAuthentically contribute to personal and societal healingBuild bridges to unite people, and learn how to be a better human

After spending over a decade volunteering and working at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, Oneika saw what happens to people who feel like they've been tossed aside. And before Rikers, Oneika spent two decades as a bookseller offering new worlds to seekers and language for exploration. She has a gifted ability to take big ideas and distill them down into understandable and relatable learnings allowing her to show up as a conduit for transformation. Oneika is your teacher, your auntie, your friend, and an intuitive soul here for the work of personal collective liberation.

Sit with Me is a gift to those who feel disconnected or lost, but know they want something to change. If you've ever felt left out, forgotten, judged, misunderstood or mistreated, this book is for you.

Review Quotes

Sit with Me is one of those rare books that doesn't just ask you to read. It asks you to reckon with yourself. Oneika Mays has given us something real, something necessary, something that reminds us that healing isn't lofty or distant. It's gritty, tender, and within reach. This book, this meditation, this prayer is for the ones carrying shame, the ones searching for wholeness, the ones who have been told to give to everyone but themselves. It's for those of us who know we can't be free until we learn to sit with all of who we are. -- Darnell Lamont Walker, Death Doula and author of Never Can Say Goodbye