Healing

There are several community healing spaces available this week

“For those who have exited trafficking, their biggest need is to rebuild a sense of belonging and identity within their community.”

“To fix over 500 years of trauma and its impact, we need everyone.”

Policies are good, but educating about the perception of Native women in society needs to happen.

I joined the Minnesota Safe Harbor system as a navigator, which makes me feel like I can help change the lives of our vulnerable populations on a larger scale.

The state has been “headed in the same direction for 162 years. Trying to turn the ship is a tall order, but we are in a moment where we have to get it done. If folks are not willing to be in that work with us, then they just have to get out of the way.”

Punishment culture encourages the view that an individual deserves harm — that the individual person is a “bad” person. Punishment marks someone as not worthy of belonging.

What might love for place teach us about the people whom we learn to ignore?

Our sighs when the Biden/Harris team was sworn in on January 20 are good starts. Breathing can help everything.

Sometimes it is much easier to be outraged by someone else’s victimhood than your own.

I feel there is no way of healing from this without the support and collaboration of others.

The recorded Visual Q&A, “In These Times: An Intergenerational Conversation” with Carolyn Holbrook and Tess Montgomery