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sister salute

2/14/2019

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Photo Cred: Ryan Christof
To my sisters in war
(Because sometimes
that’s what it feels like)
I salute you
Not in the way countries do
To validate their crimes
soaked in honor and the blood of others
I salute you
the way our ancestors do
I offer
I notice
I make room
For your beauty and courage
That is also dripping
In a political context
That tries to convince us
to forget our origins

Today
Dancing to the djembe,
Sweating freedom
Heart in rhythm
As I bow to the music-maker
Hands out...
I also bow to you
Your music
And the sound you make
to create the revolution
we have to compose daily
It keeps me
stomping
moving
flowing


You all inspire me to continue
manifesting dust storms from my birthplace


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i am a healer in training

2/11/2019

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​It’s interesting taking a course in specialized areas as a student in an interdisciplinary program... Tonight the epiphany landed: I’m taking this child and adolescent psychopathology course not as an aspiring therapist but as an evolving healer...

I came into the course ready to deconstruct a lot of the ideologies, experiments to disrupt the status quo of psychology-the business of it, as it exists today when considering children and adolescents ...

I went into the class ready to discuss the intersections of oppression, identity, colonization, and capitalism embedded in the business of therapy from assessment to diagnosis to treatment. I was excited to consider the many alternative healing practices that are emerging that do not subscribe to the way things have always been done, hoping to envision something entirely new...

I was ready to interrupt those common notions of what/how child adolescents develop and heal. I was ready to create new language to surround them. I was ready to ask the questions that scared me or were half-formed in my mind, seeking clarity and even more questions...

But tonight in class, while I was listening to the professor refer to us as therapists and introduce certain aspects of psychology and psychiatry that need to be accepted to even exist in the field... my spirit knew that to be a therapist would only honor a slice of my intention when it comes to healing...

I respect the students and professor who were in the room, I respect therapists and therapist-in training (as a person who benefits from therapy myself) AND... I know tonight that I am not enrolled in that course for the same reason as them and my journey requires something different... #healerintraining
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