Healing at the root where body, story, and land meet.
Together, these modalities form a holistic, integrative approach that honors complexity without fragmentation. Healing here is not about fixing what is broken, but remembering what is intact. It is a return—to body, story, land, and relationship.
For under-resourced communities, healing cannot be separated from history. We carry in our bodies the echoes of displacement, colonization, and the severing of our relationships with land and lineage.
Mainstream wellness often ignores these contexts—or worse, appropriates the very practices that were taken from us.
This work is different. It honors where we come from. It makes space for the complexity of our identities. And it recognizes that true healing is not individual— it is ancestral, communal, and inseparable from liberation.
Rooted in the teachings of Joanna Macy, The Work That Reconnects offers a compassionate framework for living in a world that is both exquisitely beautiful and deeply wounded. Rather than bypassing grief, this practice invites us to honor it as a natural and necessary response to loss—of ecosystems, cultures, relationships, and futures we once imagined.
Through guided practices, we learn to metabolize grief into connection, to shift from numbness or despair into a larger sense of belonging. This work helps us remember that our pain is not a personal failure, but evidence of our love for life. From this place, we begin to see with new eyes and act from interdependence rather than overwhelm.
Somatic archaeology, developed by Ruby Gibson, is the practice of remembering what the body has not forgotten. It is an embodied process of excavation—gently uncovering the stories, adaptations, and survival strategies that have shaped our lives.
By “digging” beneath the surface, we begin to recognize the layered histories held in our nervous systems: family legacies, cultural narratives, and moments of rupture or resilience. As history is revealed, choice is restored. This practice supports the reclamation of agency, allowing us to consciously decide which stories we continue to live and which we are finally ready to release.
Our inner lives do not exist outside of history. Personal struggles often make sense when placed within broader social, political, and intergenerational contexts. As a trained historian and counselor, this work bridges emotional healing with critical awareness.
Through this lens, we explore how systems, migrations, colonization, gender roles, and inherited survival patterns shape our present-day relationships, identities, and emotional responses. This approach helps distinguish between what is truly ours to tend and what was never meant to be carried alone. Understanding history becomes an act of liberation, not analysis for its own sake, but clarity that allows compassion and discernment to coexist.
Land-based practice reconnects healing to place. The natural world becomes both witness and teacher—offering regulation, perspective, and wisdom beyond words. Whether through direct engagement with forests, water, soil, or seasonal cycles, this practice restores our relationship with the more-than-human world.
Rather than using nature as a backdrop or tool, we approach land as a living presence with which we are in relationship. Being in intentional contact with land supports nervous system regulation, grounds insight in the body, and reminds us that healing is ecological by nature. As we restore relationships with place, we often find a deeper sense of belonging within ourselves.
Oracle divination serves as a reflective and intuitive practice—one that invites dialogue with the unseen patterns shaping our lives. Rather than predicting outcomes, oracle work is used as a contemplative mirror, helping surface insight, symbolism, and guidance already present beneath conscious awareness.
In this context, divination supports meaning-making, clarity, and timing. It helps orient individuals within cycles of transition, grief, emergence, and renewal. Used alongside grounding practices and historical context, oracle work becomes a tool for listening—attuning to inner wisdom, ancestral echoes, and the subtle intelligence of life itself.
For BIPOC communities, healing cannot be separated from history. We carry in our bodies the echoes of displacement, colonization, and the severing of our relationships with land and lineage.
Mainstream wellness often ignores these contexts—or worse, appropriates the very practices that were taken from us.
This work is different. It honors where we come from. It makes space for the complexity of our identities. And it recognizes that true healing is not individual— it is ancestral, communal, and inseparable from liberation.