“I spent over a decade volunteering and working at Rikers Correctional Facility as their first-ever Mindfulness Coach. It was the most powerful and challenging work I would ever do. This is what I learned…”

Oneika Mays narrates Sit with Me and helps you heal, improve your communication skills, process forgiveness, discover self-worth while teaching you lovingkindness meditation.

Sit with Me invites readers to learn how to:



- Incorporate metta, meditation and lovingkindness into your life and discover how to deepen love for others
- Expand your circles and mind
- Authentically contribute to personal and societal healing
- Build 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 B&N 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.

“Loving everyone is essential; liking them isn’t necessary. This book is both a love letter to presence and a field guide for finding your way back to it when you’ve wandered far from home.”