Tag Archive for: Healing

Why Incarceration Does Not Reduce Crime: Editor’s Letter and TOC
Data reveals the roots of why people are incarcerated — and indicates why prison might not be the solution.

Breathing In and Out: Another Era of Care
What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

CALL: Chris Stark on Love as Healing and Space as Memory
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.

CALL: Let’s Talk About Trauma
"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.

Avivo Village: How to Create a Trauma-Informed Space
Our hope is that folks can use their skills to self-regulate in a way that allows them to be safe.

This Life Rocks
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.

Sexual Violence Prevention = Housing Justice
Stable housing is vital for survivors of violence to heal and feel safe again.

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

A Place to Be Seen
You own your body. You own your mind. You are life.

SOS: The Role of Sexual Assault Advocates
“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.”

What Does Healing Mean to Me?
Ultimately, healing meant realizing that I was the creator of my own life.

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


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.