Read this Becoming Love Medicine Posted in Many Voices Article Published Excerpt: While our ancestral mothers taught us how to survive in this genealogical script, I believe a part of our innocence still dies. I call upon healers and leaders to teach a new script. Begin to respond to trauma seen in homes and health centers with questions: What is the source of our pain? How did the environment fail us? How can we be witnesses and advocates? How do we remember that no matter how much preparing we provide, if someone that we love is harmed, it is never the fault of yours or that person? We must speak to a wounded community. We must address a need for systems to rise like a phoenix and create something new. Read more... Becoming Love Medicine | Many Voices https://goo.gl/hYTwb3
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Becoming Love Medicine by Sacred Walker ; Edited & Published by Many Voices
Becoming Love Medicine Posted by Sacred Walker ; Edited & Published by Many Voices Sacred Walker I stood there in the Norman Manley Airport of Kingston, Jamaica. My small 11-year-old palm connected to my lanky brown hand held tightly on to my mother’s full warm palm center. What do you do when your home and world don’t feel safe? Where do immigrants land when suppression is the only way to get by? My father stood to the left of me with his tall brown caramel skin, shooing away flies. We had not been to New York since we immigrated when I was four, and now, to secure permanent residency “green cards,” we were back. I was delighted at the red, orange, yellow, and green bustling people. Then suddenly, my father’s booming voice interrupted my serene moment, “There are so many flies here. Kind of like you and your mother, just buzzing around and annoying in my ear. Don’t embarrass me out here, you know.” He spoke in a strong, threatening patwa , and I did
Read this Becoming Love Medicine Posted in Many Voices Article Published Excerpt: While our ancestral mothers taught us how to survive in this genealogical script, I believe a part of our innocence still dies. I call upon healers and leaders to teach a new script. Begin to respond to trauma seen in homes and health centers with questions: What is the source of our pain? How did the environment fail us? How can we be witnesses and advocates? How do we remember that no matter how much preparing we provide, if someone that we love is harmed, it is never the fault of yours or that person? We must speak to a wounded community. We must address a need for systems to rise like a phoenix and create something new. Read more... Becoming Love Medicine | Many Voices https://goo.gl/hYTwb3
Love Medicine Real Talk in conversation with Forbes findings: Sacred Walker speaks to the central power of therapautic play for improving professional growth. How is it central for leaders to soar- soul nourished, healthy & whole. (c) Love Medicine TV https://goo.gl/aJHDOV Love Medicine TV - Kuumba Health LLC Watch here: https://goo.gl/OdBK9x
Love Medicine Real Talk in conversation with Forbes findings: Sacred Walker speaks to the central power of therapeutic play for improving professional growth. How is it central for leaders to soar- soul nourished, healthy & whole. (c) Love Medicine TV https://goo.gl/aJHDOV Love Medicine TV - Kuumba Health LLC Watch here: https://goo.gl/OdBK9x