Radical Self-Care: A Gentle Revolution to Reclaim Our Humanity
Where social justice meets healing justice for organizations, advocates, and activists.
Dr. Joi Lewis
“I am on a mission to put healing in the hands of everyone, everywhere!”
After a 20+ year career in higher education, I’m now one of the most sought-after facilitators for issues surrounding social justice, healing justice, and trauma–particularly during crisis conflict and change. This includes serving as the lead facilitator in high-profile cases involving the movement for Black Lives, and the Jamar Clark and Philando Castile cases in Minnesota.
I’m also a CEO, founder, author, mediator, coach, community healer, social entrepreneur, unapologetic joy instigator, a healer for healers, and a certified Kemetic and hot vinyasa yoga teacher.
Here’s what I know to be true:
You deserve to take exquisite care of yourself.
And healing through radical self-care is the beginning of your restorative journey back to your community and your humanity.
Joi Unlimited was birthed in 2013 from a call to address historic and present day trauma, particularly around Black liberation.
Dr. Joi Lewis saw a real opportunity to center issues of Radical Self-Care and Healing Justice as a model to reclaim our humanity and deeply connect to community.
Over the last ten years and through speaking, facilitation, group coaching, and course offerings, Dr. Joi has used the Orange Method (OM), sharing its four principles of meditation (getting grounded), mindfulness (getting present), emotional liberation (getting free), and conscious movement (getting moving) to bring healing and radical self-care to those who need it most and their co-conspirators.
“...tools that guide us in caring for ourselves and each other...”
“Dr. Joi offers crucial survival tools that guide us in caring for ourselves and each other in ways that generate a world in which trauma is not our norm or our reason for coming together. Let this heal you, and grow your capacity to be a part of a healed future.”
adrienne maree brown
Author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
Co-host of “How to Survive the End of the World”
Find Calm in Chaos
Online Training
The Practical Process That Increases Your Capacity for Impact
Hold space for community healing without losing yourself in overwhelm.
This online training program introduces you to easy-to-implement tools and frameworks that help you and your organization hold space for community healing with more energy, joy, and confidence.
For those seeking connection and pause
“Dr. Joi created a container for connection, pause, invitation and opening to new paths forward. Dr. Joi sowed and nourished seeds of healing and possibility both individually and communally. Thank you!”
Regina Laroche, Program Director
Echoes of Peace – Planting Connections, Planting Hope
Work with Joi Unlimited
SPEAKING & FACILITATION
Give your audience the gift of holding both heartbreak and joy as Dr. Joi helps you explore challenging topics and get grounded in the Orange Method of Healing Justice (Radical Self-Care + Social Justice).
"This method is good medicine that doesn’t expire."
“I have often said ‘Freedom is not a secret. It’s a practice.’ The same could be said for JOY! Dr. Joi offers tangible practices to show up for our own joy through the variable and often difficult circumstances we all face. Her methodology is good medicine that doesn’t expire.”
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Founder, Brilliance Remastered
Hold space for both heartbreak and joy
You are vulnerable when you work on the front lines.
Social justice organizations, advocates and activists–just like you–work tirelessly to shift policies and transform communities, but rarely do you have the vital practical processes in place to protect yourself from toxic stress.
We’re on a mission to equip fierce emotional laborers with methods and tools to help you prioritize your own radical self-care and liberation so you can increase your capacity for community-wide healing, without succumbing to overwhelm.
Here’s what we know:
When emotional laborers like you are given the tools to practice your own radical self-care, you gain strength. You gain momentum. You gain self-confidence.
And you can ultimately be of better service to your surrounding community.
“Self-care to transform the world”
“This book came at just the right time – when pain in the world felt overwhelming. Dr. Joi Lewis shares how she finds the healing and self-care to help not only face but transform the world.”
Leah Goldstein Moses
Founder & CEO, The Improve Group
Dr. Joi’s book, Healing: The Act of Radical Self-Care, provides an introduction to the powerful framework and practices that will help you interrupt historic cycles of oppression, fully reclaim your humanity, and prioritize self-care as an act of love for your community.
Radical self-care is the path towards healing - for both you and your community
Note: A discount on book orders of 50 or more is available by emailing info@joiunlimited.com.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
- Rumi