Listening to Your Body : with Maria Tee-Rex

here’s the latest work from our pal, Maria Tee-Rex… thanks, Maria!

“…now I know how eating itself links me to ways of being in the world that are excessive, subversive, even forbidden. My own needs and desires always felt like a burden, like a second body I carried on my back, a child who could never be fully satisfied. Food forms a bridge between the world and those desires. Flesh of my rewritten flesh: bodies whose queer desires for love, for sex, rend the world apart, and create it anew.”

- Marusya Bociurkiw, Comfort Food for Breakups

It took me years to learn how to listen to know to my body. I was just walking around, intensely self-conscious but with a strong sense of alienation of every part of me below the neck.  I first started listening to my body, was by noticing what was going on in my gut. It speaks the loudest. But still, for years, I did know if I was hungry or full or just had a dull roar in it’s belly from something I was feeling but didn’t have a name for yet. One of the other ways I learned to make friends with my body was by learning how to cook. A lot of people are intimidated by cooking, and think it’s only the provence of professionals or the highly domestic. I had a girlfriend who told me  that I was a terrible cook because I could never cook from a recipe without changing with it somehow. Which doesn’t make me a bad cook, it makes me a devoted improvisationalist.  But this truth came to light later.

But for years I stumbled around eating toast for dinner and endearing myself to generous cooks who were happy to have another admirer at their table, to bring wine and tell funny stories and do the dishes. Being a good guest is a great way let other people fend for you for awhile and get invited back another time.

But eventually, I learned to cook. The winter I was 23 years old, in Seattle’s dull gray, at the end of a wrenching relationship, and halfway through a temp job in a windowless basement office. At the time, I had quickly fallen into infatuation with another lonely heart, who would never let me kiss her, but would come over to my house to cook for me. I had a crush on her curly hair and her smart mouth, and she made cooking look like something less mystifying than in the past. I desperately wanted to figure out how to nurture myself, and had recently figured out I could not outsource this responsibility to anybody else.

I have always been some kind of curvy, and this point in my life, I wasn’t trying to have the food I put into my mouth have any kind of effect on my body, I was just trying to learn to feed myself. I was trying to learn to make things –out of the flight of my own imagination, and out of the Moosewood cookbook, and out of the scrabbled-together ingredients I had in my cupboard, while my curly-haired companion would nag me for my egregious substitutions, but this time around, I was just leaning into the fact that I was making it up as I was going along. I was learning what things my body was hungry for, and what felt good to my body on a very basic, chemical level. It was a practice of relearning how to live in my body, and acknowledge it’s needs. It was after  a long time spent in a couple of relationships, where I had been in the practice of behaving as if the world were a small, cramped place. My body, which had a lot of information for me about what it really wanted, was learning to ask for things instead of going numb.

These days I am still a girl who would rather make up her recipes than follow anything straight out of a book or from the internet, but I have learned how to feed myself and the people I love and hope to keep around. I have “taught” other people to cook-by which I mean, we cooked together, and they watched me throw things together on the fly, and I answered questions like “How do you know when the rice is done?” with “When it tastes done.” I never went to culinary school, I just learned how to throw things together that feed my tired body and will let my fretful heart be satisfied.

I think that our own order in the natural world exists in the same way. At the same time of year that I make the most outrageously loud sneezes and spend half my morning bent over the sink with a netipot because of the pollen in the air, there are nettles growing outside that I could very well make into tea or pesto that would take the bite out of these allergies. There is a cure to whatever ails us, whether heartache or indigestion, but it will likely take some searching and ingenuity. All that knowledge exists- the plants and foods that will shift your mood and reshape the outlook of your day- and it hasn’t necessarily been lost. But like I said-this takes some looking, and some experimentation, and some paying attention.

These days, I cook for myself and my sweetheart and for whoever else happens to be passing through. My curly-headed friend moved halfway across the globe to eat cheese and learn other languages. This weekend I walked into the woods near our house and gathered nettles and scraped myself up against the prickly parts and got stung on my arms and legs. But I blanched them, and blended them into a pesto with walnuts I roasted and too much garlic. In the summertime I make so much pesto with raw garlic that sometimes my sweetheart complains about sleeping next to me, her stinky girlfriend who is radiating the smell of garlic like rancid potpourri. But this night there wasn’t too much garlic, and I made us pesto pizza with goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes. It was no spectacular culinary feat, but after she came back from working in the yard, and we sat down to eat together.

Cooking- and food- can stir up lots of issues- an inherent fear that we aren’t going to do it right, as well as all the overwhelming baggage that food carries with it. Their seems to be a culture force at work trying to convince people to fight their inherent desires to eat. Bodies are gorgeous at all sizes, as far as I am concerned- but not everyone has had the luck to hold onto such a notion. Also, most of us have become so removed from the production of our own means of survival, that the most basic things like food and water are things we buy, and have little relationship of making or creating before we put them into our bodies.

We get so confused by all the intense contradictory information and shame thrown at us around food that most people have the hardest time just knowing what they want to eat. It is the work of a lifetime, both to learn how to cook the things you want to feed yourself, not to mention things that you may have learned from your family or culture of origin. It is also a life’s work to learn to be at peace with your body and the queer, dangerous things that it wants.

Healing Justice Needs You! : AMC 2012 Fundraiser

Back at Market!

Hey folks, I’m happy to announce that we’re back at market starting tomorrow! Come find us Saturday, April 7th at the indoor Hudson Farmers’ Market at Christ Church on 4th and Union, 10am-1pm. We’ll have stuff for allergies, healthy immunity, nourishment and more!

Clover + Timothy is here!

Alicia Marrin, herbalist & yoga teacher located in NYC, has launched her own line of wellness offerings with Clover + Timothy – please check it out! From herbal medicine to nutritional counseling to yoga classes and more, Alicia offers many avenues to get well, keep well and thrive. I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work closely with her on the first ever Community Supported Herbalism project with Third Root Community Health Center back in 2009. Alicia’s warmth, grace and enthusiasm was an inspiration to be around and I am so excited about this new venture she’s taken on. Check it out and spread the word!

More on Ms. Marrin :

Plants have always been a source of much awe and inspiration for me.  I think you could measure my childhood joy each day in how grass stained my knees were by dark.  In those days communion with plants came fully naturally.   I’d spend whole afternoons picking wild strawberries and collecting dandelion flowers, making bouquets with them and then blowing their white seeded wisps to the sky.

Growing up in suburban New Jersey in the 1980′s however, for most folks dandelions were pesky nuisances to be weed whacked, not the bits of wonder I found them to be, let alone something consumed for healing.   It wasn’t until I started practicing yoga and started to look for new ways to care for my body, that I learned I could turn to plants and flowers as alternatives to over-the-counter medicines and pharmaceutical drugs I had grown up taking.  I was excited (and still am) by the idea that the medicine that could truly heal us might just be growing in the land around us.

For the past ten years, I have engaged in daily studies of Western Herbalism, Yoga & Nutrition.   Through these holistic traditions, not only have I found ways to kick the common cold or prevent a piercing headache, I have found a way of living that is lighter and more joyous because it is aligned with the natural rhythms of our planet.

In 2011, I founded Clover and Timothy to share this way of living with my community at large and to pay homage to the traditions that have been teaching similar ideas for thousands of years.   Through this website and blog, the classes I offer & the handcrafted products I make, I strive to empower others with tools for preventative self care and to inspire folks everywhere to come together in honoring this grand planet we inhabit.

Etsy : Custom Apothecary & Self Care Station

I had the incredible opportunity to work with the Etsy Support Team in Hudson, NY, to create their own custom herbal Apothecary & Self Care Station. It’s rare to see a company choose and finance self care & preventive care opportunities for their employees, and I applaud Etsy for prioritizing wellness in the workplace!

The dynamic staff and I talked about what it means & what it can look like to “work from a self-care standpoint”. These folks explored what they need to take care of themselves, were excited to use herbs at the office, and were ready to engage in a community based care routine. YES!

We had an herbal show and tell were we touched, tasted and smelled many different herbs and products. The Etsy crew got to learn more about medicinal herbs and their benefits, how, why & when to use them, as well as think more deeply about what kinds of health support they needed and wanted for daily use at the office.

After, the team filled out a survey I designed to better get a sense for what types of herb formulations to include in their Apothecary & Self Care Station.

Now the crew has their own custom designed herbal Apothecary & Self Care Station located in their office to support themselves and the hard work they do every day!

For more information on designing your own Apothecary at home or in the office, please contact me at : goodfightherbco@gmail.com

Let’s Learn : Northern Prickly Ash

Leah Wolfe (MPH, herbalist, teacher and street medic), of the Serpentine Project (www.serpentin-project.org & www.serpentineproject.blogspot.com) wrote a great post recently on one of her most loved plants, Northern Prickly Ash. This is a great opportunity for us to get to know this plant better, so thanks, Leah! I also suggest y’all take a look at the Serpentine Project and sign up for some upcoming workshops with Leah – they are not to be missed.

Northern Prickly Ash

I was teaching a workshop called Tree Medicine in Luck, WI talking about various trees and their medicinal properties: white oak, wild cherry, birch, etc. It was a two hour workshop but with all the questions everyone asked we were out of time. I had two trees left: high bush cranberry and northern prickly ash.

I have never encountered what happened when I said the words “northern prickly ash.” It was almost electric. Everyone was wide-eyed and suddenly in no hurry to leave even though we were already 5 minutes past the end of the workshop. I realized that I had no chance of leaving without talking about this small and thorny citrus tree. They were amazed that something good could come from prickly ash.

Northern prickly ash, also known as Xanthoxylum americanum, is held in the same regard as blackberries in the Pacific Northwest, kudzu in the South, and Japanese knotweed in the East. One difference is that prickly ash is not an exotic opportunistic plant. It is indigenous and it is the only citrus tree in the northern climes. It can be found in the entire eastern half of North America (map here: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=zaam).

Prickly ash has a tendency to take over old fields, because it propagates by roots and suckers. Birds also help propagate it by distributing seeds. In some areas, it appears to be the first stage of a returning forest. I was introduced to prickly ash when I moved to Wisconsin. People talk about it, but mostly in terms of how to get rid of it.

For me, prickly ash has become an indispensable herb. The history of prickly ash as an herbal remedy includes a wide variety of conditions. It is a local source of the same warming, diffusive, aromatic, and, stimulating properties as ginger; thus, it can be used to ward off hypothermia, attacks of Raynaud’s syndrome, and pain caused by congestion (i.e., menstrual cramps and stomachaches). Prickly ash contains a prickly taste that reminds me of Echinacea and has a history of being used to help stubborn wounds and ulcers heal.

Prickly ash also has an affinity for the nervous system. It helps relax the body and reduces pain. It supports healing from nerve damage from anything from injuries to electrocution. It helps people recover from viral infections that colonize the nervous system, such as cold sores and other herpes infections. And it is often included as the last ingredient in commercial tonics for the nervous system.

When the last of the workshop participants had trickled out, the organizer of the workshop said it was the first time people didn’t want to leave when it was over. But it wasn’t the last time either.

Easy Does It with Maria Tee-Rex

With great excitement, I introduce to you Maria Tee-Rex, a new monthly contributor to this site whose work, thoughts and writings I am so eager to share. Maria Tee-Rex writes about mental health, social justice & woo. She is an earnest and uppity queer white femme who lives in Seattle. Welcome, Maria!

Why Pain is Not Actually Weakness Leaving the Body

by Maria Tee-Rex

I bike the 10 miles to and from work most days of the week. I could take the bus, but most days I prefer to ride, partially because it gives me a chance to get some movement, and get out of my head. I am a short, thick girl who has been trucking up Seattle hills for the better part of my life, which I am happy about and also am definitely not part of mainstream bike culture in Seattle. You don’t see a lot of fat ladies on bikes here. And there are days when I feel really indignant toward my spandex-clad fellow commuters zipping past me.

So some days, when my commute is really supposed to be about letting go of the petty annoyances and minor frustrations of my day, sometimes I instead get agitated and defensive instead.

It’s easy to get defensive, you know, about the things your body can and can’t do, and how fast you think you should be doing them. It’s easy to get all the stories kicked up about how you should be going faster, and who do those jerks think they are not looking out for me, and my god will this bike ride ever end it’s so boring.

And I ride my bike past this big pick-up truck, but this pick-up truck has a sticker on the back that says “Easy Does It.”

It reminds me of once someone told me, when we were saying goodbye, “Be easy.”

Which I take to mean, let your breath settle. Let your muscles relax. Let it be easy.

And if easy does it, then I can easy do my little bike ride, and I can easy my way home, and it’s kind of like saying that your effort is good enough. That you are good enough.

I think a lot about the stress and expectations that people live with on a daily basis, that everybody goes through. But these expectations are particularly compounded for people living at the intersections of lots of different kinds of oppressions. Whether it’s a question of “good enough” or “able” or “smart enough” most people feel like they don’t measure up some way. We start out imperfect and become increasingly burdened by the weight of trauma and oppression throughout our lives.

Which can be a heavy thing to think about, especially about a question of when and how healing can ever occur. And the reality is that trauma lives in our bodies, most often manifesting in the forms of tightness and tension and uneasiness. And another thing that happens is folks can get really critical and zero in on the tensions and imperfections in a way that really exacerbates the problem.

So, I want to bring you a somatic exercise, to give you an example of being easy with yourself. To show a tiny example of what unfolding and healing might look like.

(This exercise was taught to me by a member of this organization (http://carw.org/) who may have possibly learned it from this organization (http://www.generationfive.org/) I’m not totally certain about that, but wanted to give credit where it may be due.)

Start out with a tight fist. This is the tension, the trauma, all the yucky stuff that hangs out in your body.

Now, pick at that fist. Try to stick your fingers in between, wedge it open, pull those tight fingers apart from your palm. Also if you can, notice your breath.

What happens? For most people, the contraction gets tighter. Your body, which has learned to gather tension around a spot of vulnerability, is trying to protect itself. It is trying to do the thing it knows how to do to resist harm.

So, bring out your fist again. Same fist, same tightness, same attitude.

Put it in the palm of your other hand. Allow the fingers of that other hand to rest gently against the sides of your fist. Notice your breath.

What happens? Does your fist loosen and soften a little bit? Does it feel less under attack and more like a gentle resting place?

The act of allowing trauma and injury the spaciousness and gentleness it needs to heal is a radical act, especially among people and communities who have experienced compounding generations of trauma.

So that’s a little something for you, friends. Easy does it.

*if you’d like to be a contributor to this site, please email me at goodfightherbco@gmail.com!

Weeds, Leaves, Seeds & Shoots Classes

i’m thrilled to pass on the upcoming classes with the incredibly talented herbalist & nurse, marguerite uhlmann-bower!

Weeds, Leaves, Seeds and Shoots: Extend your Budget – Steward the Land
Herbs as Food and Food as Our Best Medicine

Wild foods and medicinal plant identification walks and talks to begin in May and run through October. Classes will meet on Wednesday’s, bi-monthly, at various tri county locations (to be announced). The focus is on nature and nurture in support of the land that feeds us, stretching our budget with nutritionally dense foods, responsible land-water stewarding, safe plant identification, proper usage of garden weedy greens into delicious table foods. New this year by popular request: working with local plants traditional health uses for a reclaiming of our herbal heritage.

This series will begin the season at Harmony Hill Retreat Center in East Meredith. Arrival time is 12:45. Classroom time is 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower R.N., Herbalist. Bring pen, paper, camera or your sketching paper.

Suggested donation per class: $15 person. Contact Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower to pre-register and directions, at 607-278-9635 or email: 3moonsisters@gmail.com.

By participating in this class you will be supporting the education of people and community on the effects Hydrofracking substances has on our environment, our health and our future.

Transforming Wellness & Wholeness by Cara Page

looking and organizing toward and forward to the 2012 Allied Media Conference, and its healing justice component, i wish to share with y’all these remarkable words from healer and organizer, Cara Page…

Cara Page describes the work of organizing for healing justice and liberation at the US Social Forum.

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“She had learned to read the auras of the trees and stones and plants and neighbors.  Had studied the sun’s corona, the jagged petals of magnetic colors and then the threads that shimmered between wooden tables and flowers and children and candles and birds…She knew each way of being in the world and could welcome them home again, open to wholeness…”

Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

Transforming Wellness & Wholeness, by Cara Page

I come by way of Black Seminole, African American and Austrian ancestry a mixed creed despite eugenic laws that would render me dead or expendable.  I write this piece in memory of my ancestors and allies.  We will find our way home again and again despite bloodshed and oil spills; despite the misplaced and displaced; despite the forgotten memories we will always find our way home … and make a way out of no way.

This past year I took a deeper dive into the notion of wellness for our movements and the role of well being for organizers.  I sat with my dreams and wondered, ‘How far have we been able to come despite noxious toxic waste dumps near our homes, and oil spills and sterilization abuse, population control and genocide…just a few things on our map of oppression.  How have we survived?”  I’ve been asking these questions to the ‘salt eaters’ and the ‘dreamers’ and the ‘shapeshifters’ among us; what is wholeness? Not an ableist notion of wholeness that implies one specific body or blood type, but a shape of wholeness that intrinsically knows what each individual and collective notion of feeling whole and safe and well can look like.  Not the bought ‘wholeness’ you can find only in supreme retreat packages at sunset salons but the kind of ‘wholeness’ that calls on whole communities and whole movements to be well, sustainable and resilient.  Who will answer the call to our hurts, our wounds, our double/triple/quadruple pains of oppression and desperation?  How will we answer our own calls to wellness and safety?

I’ve been sitting with southern and national healers to remember the role of healing inside of liberation.  I am leading a storytelling gathering project with the KINDRED southern healing justice collective to tell the stories of southern healers in the U.S. to map our sites of transformative practice as conduits of social change.  Call it a quest for what the role of healing is and how healers move us to and through liberation.  What keeps us resilient in our hearts, our blood, our bones?  What helps us to rebuild a home? How do we reclaim and re-imagine safety in our homes and movements?

The role of healer as a Black queer woman in the South for me has been to demystify the notion that we are not wrong to use our imaginations and dreams for action? That we are not odd to believe in plants and herbs as integral parts to our paths of liberation? The role of healer as women of color teaches us we can heal ourselves and our own; that we can live, and birth and bury outside of institutional notions of wellness.  Yet what is the role of women of color healers inside of liberation?  While it has been our legacy it seems to have come undone, uprooted and unnoticed in our collective memories and notions of justice.  As a poet, healer, organizer I helped to envision the role of the ‘healer’ and ‘healing’ inside of liberation at the US Social Forum in Detroit (June 2010); a four day convergence of ritual, rallies, workshops etc. pulling together our movements to rebuild, and regenerate new alliances and vision towards strategy and of what is just.

The role of healing at this convergence took the shape and presence of many things.   We created two spaces of political and practical application of what we have named ‘healing justice’; a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.  Through this framework we built two political and philosophical convergences of healing inside of liberation.  One was the US Social Forum Healing Justice Practice Space which created a free multimodal practice space to respond to trauma and triggers for organizers; to accept that many of us are tired and burnt out and have not fared well on responding to conditions of our movements and communities by putting our literal bodies on the line.  We provided practices such as reiki, acupressure, acupuncture, sound and somatic therapy with practitioners from across different regions in the U.S..  We used energy, body and earth based traditions alongside doulas and midwives to provide knowledge on birth, breath, resiliency and balance.   The Healing Justice Practice Space at the US Social Forum was a large room sectioned off for different practices simultaneously that gave us ample space to respond to the conditions of Detroit including; acute asthma, diabetes, and nutrition while also responding to the conditions of our lives and movements (eg. depression, burn out, and survivors of emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse and trauma).  As we so poignantly stated in our outreach materials, ‘We are responding to a lack of quality of life and conditions, a pattern of systemic abuse and oppression that reinforces the controlling of our bodies/wellness/systems/cultures and our capacity to remember and transform our conditions. We stand in solidarity as a national collective of grassroots healers, medical practitioners and health justice organizers who seek to create systems of wellness outside of state and corporate models that profit from these conditions.’

In our political and practical application of healing justice we also created a People’s Movement Assembly: a four hour interactive session to imagine new strategies and unlikely alliances towards building action.  The People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) we held was for Health, Healing Justice & Liberation’ to politicize the role of healing inside of liberation from the perspective of health justice organizers, grassroots healers and integrative medical practitioners.  Our vision in the creation of this PMA was to dream for organizing that uplifted the role of healing inside of liberation that will transform our conditions from generational trauma and violence.

Our goals at this convergence were to:

• Map the frequencies of where we are in our movements to ground us in our vision towards strategies of sustaining and resourcing our collective wellness
• To create spaces that value and honor equal exchange of resources/energies/economics towards obtaining new models for wellness that restore the earth and are adaptable to the current state of our emotional/spiritual/physical/psychic and environmental conditions
• To locate the bridges and paths that connect us to memories, dreams and our ancestral legacy of healing traditions towards new models of healing and justice inside of our communities and movements

The questions we began grappling with at the PMA included: How do we redefine what it means to be healthy that is not profit driven or derived from one type of body, and one type of wellness? What are our shared understandings and memories of healing practices as tools of resistance and organizing?  How will we sustain, renew and uplift healers and traditions that are being co-opted, displaced, replaced and criminalized?

These questions are large and the next steps many but there was a sense of belonging and visibility amplified for healers, and the participants who came to both of these spaces.  As organizers and healers we mapped a way home to well being that did not isolate nor stigmatize our individual and collective bodies nor underestimated our need for wellness.

As a Black queer woman survivor of family and state violence, uninsured in the South I am often coming up against the notions of wellness, who is worthy of wellness and who is deserving of well being based on who can afford it.  At the Social Forum I was able to measure a different landscape.  What does it mean to be well in our collective bodies and in our collective memories inside of traumatic incidences of state/familial and communal abuse?  What does it mean to take care of one another as Women of Color, Queer and Trans People of Color, as communities in the South escaping unethical and horrific practices on our bodies to test our mental and physical capacity for labor and slavery?  Is the question really ‘Are we well?’ or is it ‘How can we be well with the overwhelming idea that we are less than human in the first place?

How can one be well if we are not well together?  And how will we get well when our sense of wellness often does not include the whole?  As Toni Cade pondered in her book The Salt Eaters we have to open ourselves up again to wellness and wholeness, because what is in our memory and intrinsically a part of us has been separated and often taken away from us.  It is something we will need to find again as part of understanding our role as organizers who once were healers, or healers who once were organizers.

Cara Page

Cara Page is a Black queer organizer, artist, healer, poet living in the state of things in Atlanta, GA.  She comes by way of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts to her home.  She is inspired by and works with the KINDRED southern healing justice collective, INCITE!, Project South, Southerners on New Ground, UBUNTU, the Young Women’s Empowerment Project & the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative.  She is committed to remembering our memories of resilience and resistance to transform continued slavery & genocide.

The Healing & Health Justice Collective Organizing Principles that were developed at USSF are available after the jump!

Healing & Health Justice Collective Organizing Principles
US Social Forum Detroit 2010

• We are committed to People of Color & Indigenous leadership, in partnership with our allies, on building healing justice* work at the USSF.
• We will lift up the leadership and conditions of Detroit to define the healing justice practice space and other programming for healing justice inside of a national context.
• We enter this work through an anti-oppression framework that seeks to transform and politicize the role of healing inside of our movements and communities.
• We are learning and creating this political framework about a legacy of healing and liberation that is meeting a particular moment in history inside of our movements that seeks to: regenerate traditions that have been lost; to mindfully hold contradictions in our practices; and to be conscious of the conditions we are living and working inside of as healers and organizers in our communities and movements.
• We are building national relationships and dialogues to cultivate knowledge and to build reflection and exchange of our healing, transformative and resiliency practices in our regions and movements.
• We believe in transparency on all levels so that we can have a foundation of trust, openness and honesty in our vision and action together.
• We believe in open source knowledge; which means that all information and knowledge is to be shared and transferred to create deeper collaboration and cross-movement building strategy.
• As we continue to create spaces for healing and sustainability throughout the US Social Forum and beyond; we will keep ourselves in mind as well as conscious of our own capacity and well being.
• We believe in movement building and organizing within an anti-racist and anti-hierarchical framework that builds collective decision making, strategies, vision and action and does not seek to support only one model or one approach over others.
• We believe that there is no such thing as joining this process too late; as we move forward, anyone who comes in when they come in are welcomed; and we will always remember that we are interconnected with many communities, struggles and legacies who have joined healing and resiliency practices with liberation in their work for centuries.

June 2010

*Healing justice is being used as a framework that seeks to lift up resiliency and wellness practices as a transformative response to generational violence and trauma in our communities.

Care (about you!) Package : Winter Edition