Healing

Data reveals the roots of why people are incarcerated — and indicates why prison might not be the solution.

What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

Treat each other with true kindness and humility and gentleness and love, because that is our way forward. That is how we are going to find ways to heal the harm that has been inflicted on so many of us, and the land, and the water.

“Unpacking Our Trauma Bundles to Create Community Healing,” first in the Healing Trauma series of Changemakers Alliance, a statewide conversation-story-and-action membership community of Minnesota Women’s Press.

Our hope is that folks can use their skills to self-regulate in a way that allows them to be safe.

When I was six, I started a kindness project called This Life Rocks. At the time, my dad was recovering from his first cancer, and I was struggling with selective mutism.

Stable housing is vital for survivors of violence to heal and feel safe again.

The women in the paintings do not shy away from telling the story of their injuries, but they are not defined by them.

You own your body. You own your mind. You are life.

“The legal aspect is one thing, but the healing aspect is another. Often survivors have to pay out of pocket to receive services for trauma they endured by the hands of someone else.”

Ultimately, healing meant realizing that I was the creator of my own life.

I never wanted the rapist in jail. I wanted him to see what happened in that room in the same way I do.