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About I AM WELL
I Am Well is an audio documentary series exploring how healing lives in memory, ritual, spirituality, foodways, plants, land, and community.
Through immersive storytelling, oral history, and field reporting, the series traces living wellness traditions across the African diaspora while examining the cultural knowledge communities carry forward across generations.
This show is produced by Heal and Hear the Community®, created and hosted by award-winning multimedia journalist Rachel J. Pilgrim.
Community Voices
I Am Well features conversations with herbalists, historians, elders, artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners carrying knowledge forward through community practice and lived experience.
Join Rachel as she enters the many worlds of traditions here at home in the U.S. and across the global Black community and experience sonic and water healing, herbalism, and more.
We successfully met our $5,000 fundraising goal for the pilot episode of I Am Well in 2024, which allowed us to travel to Puerto Rico to record on location in Loíza. With that support, we captured rich interviews, ancestral stories, and immersive sound that exceeded our original scope resulting in a pilot episode so robust it was developed into two powerful episodes about the Yoruba tradition of Ifa.
I Am Well documents wellness traditions, healing practices, and cultural knowledge systems that continue shaping Black communities across the African diaspora.
The listeners get to experience the practice alongside the host. Rachel also leaves the audience with an herbalism recipe or lesson as she discovers them for herself or for her shop, The Land of Milk & Honey Apothecary.
Rachel has always been curious about the legacy her skin held, coming from a storytelling family with green thumbs. I Am Well serves as a journey into her identities as a descendant of West Indian and U.S. Southern Black American communities. As a Black woman navigating mental health challenges, she explores whether healing, belonging, and a fuller understanding of self might live in ancestral knowledge lost to time, history, and colonization.
About Our Host
Rachel J. Pilgrim is an award-winning multimedia journalist, herbalist, and oral historian whose work explores race, culture, wellness, and social memory.
Through immersive reporting and documentary storytelling, her work examines the ways communities preserve healing traditions, cultural practices, and knowledge systems across generations. Her reporting and storytelling have appeared across podcast, radio, video, and digital platforms.
In the pilot episode of I Am Well, journalist and herbalist Rachel J. Pilgrim explores what it means to begin a healing journey as a Black woman. Through heartfelt conversations with her grandmother and herbalism teacher, Rachel unpacks questions about identity, spirituality, and generational wellness. This episode sets the stage for a powerful exploration of Black healing traditions, ancestral memory, and finding your own path to emotional and spiritual wellness.
