IFYC’s Guide to Gratitude This Holiday Season

The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema – a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself by providing weekly inspiration and tips led by Dr. Thema Bryant, a licensed psychologist (President-Elect of the American Psychological Association), ordained minister, and sacred artist.

The Ezra Klein Show — Named a best podcast of 2021 by Time, Vulture and Esquire. Each Tuesday and Friday, Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike?

“The Show of Delights” — an episode from NPR’s This American Life, a weekly public radio show heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown — Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.

“The Promise” – Tracy Chapman

“We Are” – John Batiste album

Hope – Cindy Lauper (Tracy Young Remix video on YouTube). “If hope is a thing with feathers, lost in the storm, then see us fly together.”

Meet Me At Our Spot (Live Performance) – Tyler Cole x Willow Smith x The Anxiety

Aaqa from Coke Studio 9 (With subtitles) – the first collaborative single of the duo Abida Parveen & Ali Sethi, this song is the kind of devotional piece that greets your soul with immaculate clarity from the very onset.

Achtung Baby – U2. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this edgy and enduring album.

Ted Lasso — Small-time American football coach Ted Lasso is hired to coach a professional football club in England, despite having no experience coaching football. What he lacks in experience, he makes up with optimism, kindness, and….biscuits.

Bones or No Bones Day – TikTok

Reservation Dogs – Hulu. Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob, and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious, and faraway land of California.

This story about Eliot Middleton from South Carolina who fixes and gifts cars to his neighbors in need, from the CBS Evening News.

My Name is Pauli Murray — Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat, Pauli Murray fights for social justice. A non-binary Black lawyer, activist, poet, and priest, Murray influences both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.

The Biggest Little Farm — A couple are followed through their successes and failures as they work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles. Over the years, the desolate land they purchase begins to thrive and is transformed.

Miss Sharon Jones — Filmmaker Barbara Kopple follows rhythm and blues singer Sharon Jones as she tries to hold her band together while battling pancreatic cancer.

Tina — A revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s.

Stylelikeu – a platform for radically honest docu-style videos that gives voice to people who stand proudly outside of norms and are comfortable in their skin.

Only Murders In The Building — Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi – A memoir told through candid, intimate correspondences where Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world.

Reasons to be Cheerful — Stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful.

GuRu by RuPaul Charles — His dedication reads “To all you sweet, sensitive souls out there in the world—look for the light in the world, in people, in places, in art and music. Light will lift you up.”

Weekly digest from Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Because sometimes you just need to remember how small we are!

Lost Prophet: A Life of Bayard Rustin — One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation’s consciousness.

The Progress Network newsletter — A weekly dose of everything that’s going right in the world.

Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry and Sara Grace — Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and learn how to put faith into action.

Promises of Hope for Women — A book filled with different Christian verses and scripture that assist in the battle of staying in and holding on to hope.

Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile — Evocative and piercingly honest, Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church’s basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind, a brilliant artist, and a genuine empath on a mission to give back.

To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue – A compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant familywho fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.

Gilead Quartet by Marilynne Robinson — With plainspoken writing, these four tightly-crafted novels explore theology and morality and resonate like the best kinds of sermons.