The Yatra Sisters
Mission statement Join our movement
Join the movement of bringing mental health accessible to all. Life is full of absurdities, unknowns and rather interesting outcomes. Let's choose to feel safe discussing it. The Yatra Sisters is reshaping how mental health is administered by encouraging open conversations, where truth and vulnerability along with laughter and acceptance is embraced. Mental Health should not be the responsibility of just the therapists and counselors. We can all participate because we all have something of value to add to someone else's life. Mental Health should be supported by everyone in the community. And when this shift happens, our successes, failures, moods and messy lives become de-stigmatized.
About us
Over the years spirituality has twisted, turned, changed and even been modified to fit into modern lifestyles. In some areas it has been diluted to movements and sweat and in other areas it has created segregation and exclusion. We have found that spirituality merged into mental health has even felt like another area people are feeling like they must “do better, act better, eat a certain way, or think a certain way”. This new way of being has left people feeling like they are even “failing” at spirituality. And we, The Yatra Sisters, wanted to find a way to heal that.
With Mental Health Awareness on the rise, therapists and counselors have become in high demand. Thank goodness as a society we are finally embracing the importance of good counsel. However, not everyone wants to commit to a weekly counseling session and not everyone can afford it. In addition, we believe Mental Health should be a community responsibility. As individual, you may just need one question answered, or needing a little encouragement to help you leap into a new way of being, or need guidance in healthier thoughts, actions and behaviors. Maybe you just need a sister or a true healthy friend to call. Allison and Sherita call each other daily - just to get quick advice, validation, direction in how to behave better in a situaion, use commuinciation more effectively or even just to hear “You are special and I love you”. They together thought…..shouldn’t everyone have a sister to call? So they decided to become sisters to All.
We, The Yatra Sisters, wanted to make “right counsel” easy to access for everyone.
The Yatra Sisters Podcast became a way we could connect with many on a more REAL and engaging way. We wanted advice and support to be received, but in a way that did not feel overwhelming or shaming. We believe our Podcast and Workshops bridges Mental Health from the teachers to eveyonce partcipating. As The Yatra Sisters, we want our fellow supporters to know we are just like you! Doing the best we can on this journey called life.
The Yatra Sisters record a weekly podcast that is designed to have you feel like you are sitting right beside us, sipping a glass of wine or drinking a warm cup of tea. We love to laugh, we aren’t afraid to be vulnerable and more than anything we love to find a way to ease our minds and souls. In addition to our podcast, The Yatra Sisters have a few books that can accompany you anytime – like a little friend that awaits you when you open the pages. And The Yatra Sisters are always excited to attend speaking engagements and public events.
Our workshops offer a safe and secure environment for individuals to learn about themselves, others in their community and effective ways to improve communication, acceptacnce, teamwork, and creating positive co-exisitince with diverse beliefs in a singular environment. We are able to discuss sexuality, nationalites, personalites, and belief systems in order to create inclusion, acceptance, understanding along with tangible ways to improve mental health in work, home and community arenas.
Sherita and Allison have been involved in the both the mental health and spiritualty industries for over 25 years. Allison brings the solid education in Child and Family Development, as an Ordained Minister, and as a Certified Holistic Counselor - but she embodies the plain old basics in sexual orientation, race and gender. Sherita brings the spice with personal experience and support of LGBTQ, African American culture and the raising of three sons (Tiger, Wolf and Bear - yes that is their real names) as a single mother. Together they are 100 years old, have seven grown children, four marriages, three elderly mothers and they truly know a thing or two about how to live life with a vulnerable and brave heart.
Professional BIO
Allison Lindquist Cross Author of Yatra The Journey, Yatra Devotional Readings and Yatra 21 day workbook, ERYT1000, Licensed Holistic Life Counselor, BS in Child and Family Development from The University of Georgia, Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership at Florida Atlantic University, Certifications in Marriage and Family Development, Stress and Anxiety Management. Allison is Master Teacher in the fields of mental health and spiritual development and has become a leader in the healing arts movement. For more than twenty five years, she has been a highly respected Counselor, Master Instructor, Spiritual Speaker, Professor of spiritual doctrines, Minister, experienced Teacher as well as a pioneer in her ability to powerfully weave soul healing lectures into her classes and seminars. In addition, she has been in the wellness community for over 30 years acting as a mental health speaker, consultant to major corporations for better work environments and private schools to create retention through communication and patience.
Sherita Bolden is the Author of several fiction and nonfiction books with a focus on strengthening and improving relationships. Sherita has completed Life Coach training and has worked with clients to help them relieve the mental stresses that often overwhelm us by taking a simple approach to reduce or remove it completely. Sherita is also a public speaker and was the Keynote speaker at Patrick B Harris for their National Administrative Professionals Day on the topic of Relationships in the Workplace. Sherita serves as a member of the Diversity Equity & Inclusion Council at her workplace and she’s also a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. During her lectures and workshops, Sherita delivers a style that wraps laughter and compassion around honesty, love, and pure acceptance. Whenever she’s not co-hosting the Yatra Sisters Podcast, practicing yoga, hiking, playing in water or spending time with friends and family, she’s passionately writing and making films that focus on relationships.
clients
Clients have included Marriott Corporation, Greenville Hospital System, American Montessori Association, Professional Olympic Athletes, Former NFL, Furman University, EDMC, Prisma Helathcare.
Listen to Us
Our podcast came be found on all platforms, as well as YouTube.
Advertise With Us
We love to support our small business owners, large business machines and anyone else who enhances our community with great service. We will personalize your advertisement and ensure your message is cradled with good intentions.
Invite Us
Yes, we love to be a part of our community. There are many ways we can become part of your family
Watch Party
Throw a party or a gathering and let us bring the laughter, inspiration and wisdom to your event. Take a small simple party and turn it into a day or night everyone will remember. The Yatra Sisters are available to bring their podcast Live, inviting guests to engage and become a part of the journey. We can even supply the drinks and snacks - you just provide the peeps!
Speaking Engagements
Do you need a speaker for your event? The Yatra Sisters are your perfect choice. We contain the ability to tailor our speaking engagements to meet your industry or group’s specific needs or wants. We can bring inspiration, motivation, love, acceptance, as well as words that can convert your group into family.
Workshops
The Yatra Sisters offers workshops for corporations, small businesses, churches, colleges, and for evolving groups looking for self development growth, diverstiy training, teamwork enhancements and improves morality while restoring passion back into service. We believe positive mental health should be embraced and discussed without shame and guilt. Not everyone desires a weekly counseling session, nor can everyone afford right counsel. The Yatra Sisters have created a way for mental health to become available to everyone. Our workshops are engaging and intimate. You will truly feel like you have finally found “right company” to guide you towards a life that feels more liberating by removing shame, guilt, fear or even that silly paralyzed confusion. We significantly improve workplaces, along with all areas we engage inside of, by bringing awareness to ourselves, our relationships, our actions, words, thoughts and behaviors. Our workshops are educational, non-threatening and are on the cutting edge! Join our movement, be the group that encourages positive co-existence among us all. We can tailor our workshops to meet your group’s needs. Workshops can include a live podcast. WHY? Because after we bond, learn to feel better, we want to share our education with others. We love feeling like we are part of a solution, instead of the problem. What better way, than to be given a forum to show your knowledge beyond your own walls, knowing you are helping others by sharing your wisdom. The podcast will include the group in our movement, in the conversation.
Below are a few of our specialties- check out BOOK WORKSHOP tab for full descriptions.
Un Box me
Clearing the obstacles, Clear the bulls*t
Some Pain in Life can be Avoided- Lower your stress
Train your mind, not the horse
Restore passion back into service
Join our movement as family
Beginning January 2023 you can become a Yatra Sister member. Our VIP program will allow you to receive 25% all our merchandise and books, a weekly inspirational phone message, a monthly meditation, as well as a monthly “member” only virtual talk with The Yatra Sisters (offered first Wednesday evening of each month) where you can be a part of our conversations - giving your opinions, asking your own questions, or bringing your flavor to our mix! These member only talks will become your favorite night, where you look forward to chatting and laughing with your best friends.
$9.95 per month