Together We Heal
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Racial & Ancestral Healing and Integration Resources
"The medicine is already within the pain and suffering. You just have to look deeply and quietly. Then you realize it has been there the whole time."
~ Saying from the Native American oral tradition
~ Saying from the Native American oral tradition
Racial Healing: Connect, Build Relationships, and Bridge Divides
The World's Soul - Dr. Eduardo Duran
Native, Indigenous Cultures and Healing Trauma by Eduardo Duran, PhD
Mindfully Together with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Love and Justice are Not Two: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Graduate Gallery 2020: Hope as Practice | June | 2020 | Newsroom | Teachers College, Columbia University
Home (drangelacosta.com)
Insight Meditation Society: BIPOC Sangha, Indigenous Insight, Insight Recovery Sangha, and Monday Night Meditation
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social – (MALCS) Women Active in Letters and Social Change
How to Move from Trauma to Resiliency, Rewriting the Future: Radical Imagination & Transformative Justice by Charlotte Nguyễn
The World's Soul - Dr. Eduardo Duran
Native, Indigenous Cultures and Healing Trauma by Eduardo Duran, PhD
Mindfully Together with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Love and Justice are Not Two: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Graduate Gallery 2020: Hope as Practice | June | 2020 | Newsroom | Teachers College, Columbia University
Home (drangelacosta.com)
Insight Meditation Society: BIPOC Sangha, Indigenous Insight, Insight Recovery Sangha, and Monday Night Meditation
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social – (MALCS) Women Active in Letters and Social Change
How to Move from Trauma to Resiliency, Rewriting the Future: Radical Imagination & Transformative Justice by Charlotte Nguyễn
Resources on Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern Communities by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Tirzah Firestone
Embrace Race: Raising a Brave Generation Together
Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People by Maria P. P. Root
What Mixed Race Asians Will Never Tell You
Multiracial American Voices: What Are You - Pew Research Center
Multiracial American Voices: Identity - Pew Research Center
Healing Collective Trauma - A New Book by Thomas Hübl (collectivetraumabook.com)
Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth: Peter Levine & Thomas Hübl - You Tube
Race Healing | Milagros Phillips
Healing America’s Racial Karma: with Larry Ward - YouTube
About Us — The Lotus Institute
"We will either learn to love each other as brothers and sisters, or we will perish as fools." ~ Martin Luther King
Our most powerful response to the horror in Israel and Palestine is to REFUSE TO SURRENDER OUR HUMANITY.
Author: Valerie Kaur #IsraelPalestine #SeeNoStranger
https://valariekaur.com/
You will be told by some: The deaths of Israeli children are unfortunate but inevitable, because Israel’s occupation of Palestine is brutal and wrong.
You will be told by others: The deaths of Palestinian children are unfortunate but inevitable, because it is the only way to keep Israel safe from terror, and Hamas brought this on its own people.
Both will say: Our aggression is the only response to their aggression, our fear more justified than their fear, our grief more devastating than theirs ever will be.
But oh my love, the hierarchy of pain is the old way. The moment we allow our hearts to go numb is the moment we shut down our humanity.
I don’t know the solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine, but I do know the starting point: To grieve “their” children as our children.
It’s the only way to break the cycle.
To my loved ones who are Israeli, Jewish, and Palestinian: I see your searing pain. I love you and grieve with you and am reciting my ancestors’ prayers for protection as you search for your families and bear the unbearable. May love find you through the impossible.
To all of us witnessing this story: What does love want you to do?
If you cannot look at the news and the images: It’s okay. Step away, be with the earth, go to the trees, let them breathe through you; remember that you don’t need to do all the things, just the one that’s yours to do.
If you want to help but don’t know how: Begin in relationship. Who in your life is hurting from this? Offer to walk with them, listen to them. There is no fixing grief, only bearing it together. Only then do we know what to do next.
If you are falling apart: Your breathlessness is not a sign of your weakness, but of your strength. Of how deeply you feel the horror, how deeply you care. You still feel. And that matters in a world that wants us to feel nothing. Who can feel it with you? breathe with you?
Opening our hearts to grief— others and our own— is how we hold our humanity in a world that would destroy it. It’s how we will begin to survive this.
Our most powerful response to the horror in Israel and Palestine is to REFUSE TO SURRENDER OUR HUMANITY.
Author: Valerie Kaur #IsraelPalestine #SeeNoStranger
https://valariekaur.com/
You will be told by some: The deaths of Israeli children are unfortunate but inevitable, because Israel’s occupation of Palestine is brutal and wrong.
You will be told by others: The deaths of Palestinian children are unfortunate but inevitable, because it is the only way to keep Israel safe from terror, and Hamas brought this on its own people.
Both will say: Our aggression is the only response to their aggression, our fear more justified than their fear, our grief more devastating than theirs ever will be.
But oh my love, the hierarchy of pain is the old way. The moment we allow our hearts to go numb is the moment we shut down our humanity.
I don’t know the solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine, but I do know the starting point: To grieve “their” children as our children.
It’s the only way to break the cycle.
To my loved ones who are Israeli, Jewish, and Palestinian: I see your searing pain. I love you and grieve with you and am reciting my ancestors’ prayers for protection as you search for your families and bear the unbearable. May love find you through the impossible.
To all of us witnessing this story: What does love want you to do?
If you cannot look at the news and the images: It’s okay. Step away, be with the earth, go to the trees, let them breathe through you; remember that you don’t need to do all the things, just the one that’s yours to do.
If you want to help but don’t know how: Begin in relationship. Who in your life is hurting from this? Offer to walk with them, listen to them. There is no fixing grief, only bearing it together. Only then do we know what to do next.
If you are falling apart: Your breathlessness is not a sign of your weakness, but of your strength. Of how deeply you feel the horror, how deeply you care. You still feel. And that matters in a world that wants us to feel nothing. Who can feel it with you? breathe with you?
Opening our hearts to grief— others and our own— is how we hold our humanity in a world that would destroy it. It’s how we will begin to survive this.
Healing the Soul Wound
“That which hunts us will always find a way out. The wound will not heal unless given witness. The shadow that follows, is the way in.”
~ Rumi
~ Rumi
Our souls have been on a primordial journey, as evidenced by our DNA, and our cellular memory that remembers all and denies no one of what is rightfully ours, expresses our human wholeness and interconnectedness. Soul Wound is a universal concept that is defined as historical trauma by the Native American communities of the United States; Dr. Eduardo Duran, after his work as a therapist with this population, coined this term to share this ancient wisdom.
Would you like to:
Would you like to:
- Feel more at ease in your body, in your skin, just the way you are
- Speak freely about negative core beliefs that you grew up believing about yourself or others because of your and/or someone else’s race or ethnicity
- Expand your ability to imagine a better future for yourself and for all
(c) 2022 Lina Návar
Historical trauma is quite a broad term that encompasses intergenerational and transgenerational trauma in a family, passed down from one generation to the next, and it doesn’t just refer to our family of origin, our tribe, our culture, our country, etc. The Soul Wound also pertains to the family that we call humanity. All over the world, and especially here in the United States, we are now more than ever, experiencing great discomfort, strife, pain, and disconnection from ourselves and others as a result of this collective soul wound.
It is time to awaken. Is it possible that we are all being called to make a positive change by becoming actively and fully engaged in our individual healing processes, so that we may live the life we were meant to live, and proactively effect the whole?
Do you question the status quo of our collective minds and hearts that have for far too long accepted the conditioned ways of a painful past, that is no longer tolerated in a country with pernicious polarization? Know thyself, as Socrates said, encourages us to consider contemplative self-reflection and a mindfulness practice as a way out of Plato’s Cave.
It is time to awaken. Is it possible that we are all being called to make a positive change by becoming actively and fully engaged in our individual healing processes, so that we may live the life we were meant to live, and proactively effect the whole?
Do you question the status quo of our collective minds and hearts that have for far too long accepted the conditioned ways of a painful past, that is no longer tolerated in a country with pernicious polarization? Know thyself, as Socrates said, encourages us to consider contemplative self-reflection and a mindfulness practice as a way out of Plato’s Cave.
In this work, balance is key. Thus when you are ready, I invite you to go beyond self-contemplation; trying to do this work all on your own can be difficult and lonely. Instead, please consider the possibility of learning how to fully and completely, engage with yourself and others from an embodied contemplative spaciousness and expansiveness as a way to stretch, far and wide, the confines of your own perceptions and belief system. From this grounded and centered place, remembering who you are, a microcosm of the macrocosm, you are able to then decide how you may want to further support your own healing, and as a result, the healing of the greater collective. Join me in this exploration!
Race healer Milagros Phillips, supports that healing racism is the missing link to our interpersonal and national discourse, and that this healing takes us to a new awareness of self because it treats the whole being: body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
Is it possible that because you are reading this, deep inside, you know that you are essential to the change that is happening?
Are you ready to embark on this Soul Wound healing journey? If so, and if you would like to explore that possibility with me, let me know.
Race healer Milagros Phillips, supports that healing racism is the missing link to our interpersonal and national discourse, and that this healing takes us to a new awareness of self because it treats the whole being: body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
Is it possible that because you are reading this, deep inside, you know that you are essential to the change that is happening?
Are you ready to embark on this Soul Wound healing journey? If so, and if you would like to explore that possibility with me, let me know.
Past Community Events
Council Healing Circle
Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 2 PM - 4 PM at Unity Church of the Hills - Room 204 Unity Oaks
Inspired by Native American Councils, this listening circle invites us to go into our hearts for deep listening and deep sharing. It provides an opportunity to be known in ways that lead to a sense of belonging, support and meaning within the human race community.
The Council Healing Circle, led by Lina Návar, will consist of several rounds of sharing. Everyone will have an opportunity to share from the heart about their personal experience of what’s going on in the world today as well as to connect with their vision for a world that works for all.
Guidelines will be in place to ensure that the space is safe and life-giving. This is not a space for debate or cross-talk. It is truly a healing circle for sharing from the heart.
Lina was inspired to offer this Council following the recent mass shooting in El Paso. Having friends and family in El Paso, she experienced deep sadness and a need to do something that would bring people together. Join us!
Inspired by Native American Councils, this listening circle invites us to go into our hearts for deep listening and deep sharing. It provides an opportunity to be known in ways that lead to a sense of belonging, support and meaning within the human race community.
The Council Healing Circle, led by Lina Návar, will consist of several rounds of sharing. Everyone will have an opportunity to share from the heart about their personal experience of what’s going on in the world today as well as to connect with their vision for a world that works for all.
Guidelines will be in place to ensure that the space is safe and life-giving. This is not a space for debate or cross-talk. It is truly a healing circle for sharing from the heart.
Lina was inspired to offer this Council following the recent mass shooting in El Paso. Having friends and family in El Paso, she experienced deep sadness and a need to do something that would bring people together. Join us!
Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 1 PM – 7 PM
Come and enjoy a blend of psychology and spirituality via Expressive Arts activities!
Personal Transformation Activities:
1 PM Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls and honoring the healing process employing Gong Therapy and Día de los Muertos discussion
2 PM Expressive Arts 101: What are the expressive arts? Talk on how to explore multiple mediums for healing and transformation
3:15 PM A Mindfulness Halloween Experience
4:30 PM Ceremony as a Tool for Healing: Talk on stages of transition, ceremony design and tips on how to design your own ceremonies
5:45 PM Defining what Body Psychotherapy and Movement Therapy are and how they complement Spirituality, emotions, and thoughts in Holistic Psychotherapy
6:30 PM Closing and Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls on Día de Los Muertos
Come and enjoy a blend of psychology and spirituality via Expressive Arts activities!
Personal Transformation Activities:
1 PM Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls and honoring the healing process employing Gong Therapy and Día de los Muertos discussion
2 PM Expressive Arts 101: What are the expressive arts? Talk on how to explore multiple mediums for healing and transformation
3:15 PM A Mindfulness Halloween Experience
4:30 PM Ceremony as a Tool for Healing: Talk on stages of transition, ceremony design and tips on how to design your own ceremonies
5:45 PM Defining what Body Psychotherapy and Movement Therapy are and how they complement Spirituality, emotions, and thoughts in Holistic Psychotherapy
6:30 PM Closing and Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls on Día de Los Muertos
I sometimes offer holistic healing events that are created to serve specific needs of a community. Set up a free 20-minute meet-and-greet video consultation, and let me know how I can support your group in their healing process. - Lina
