"Healing is a world created from all the precise and caring interactions that take place in a community and create, sustain and preserve the future." This one statement is an illumination. Healing as a field, a world. All the interactions our nourishment, medicine. And 'All of it' - the interactions of past, present, future, personal and cultural, of human and living world - being implicated and necessary to listen to. Thank you.
Healthcare and feminism have long been linked. The first physicians were women, and women's voices now will create the healthcare we truly need now. Women have been developing self-care practices for generations. Now is when we bring our wisdom forward. It is our destiny and our birthright.
Often readers who are not on Substack write comments directly to me and sometimes I feel they merit posting here, for example:
From KC
Thanks Deena for this follow up on the Healers Workshop. I’m not on Substak but maybe it is time to learn. We’ll be in touch. The ancestors of the Land have been awakened in the healing.
The wisdom of inviting you to keynote was likely more in the spirit of “curing” than healing, despite the rhetoric. Healing, I’m constantly learning, is a process and not always an end result.
We more often hear the term “cured” in relation to illness. That’s satisfying as it implies an end. Of course it is, when that’s true. Then we hear of “relapse” indicating there really wasn’t a cure. Healing can include adapting peacefully to our ailments, even as we endeavor to be “healed.”
Healing vs. curing is much more attainable and holistically, as in whole, is the underlying goal, even as we all want to be “healed”—done, finished.
Modern medicine has developed as acute attendance to acute problems. A pill, a surgery. Often, these produce almost immediate results. Pain mostly gone, etc.
Healing is the true work as your title states: Becoming Healers.
What’s missing in care of patients? Patience. Pun and irony intentional and intact.
"Healing is a world created from all the precise and caring interactions that take place in a community and create, sustain and preserve the future." This one statement is an illumination. Healing as a field, a world. All the interactions our nourishment, medicine. And 'All of it' - the interactions of past, present, future, personal and cultural, of human and living world - being implicated and necessary to listen to. Thank you.
Healthcare and feminism have long been linked. The first physicians were women, and women's voices now will create the healthcare we truly need now. Women have been developing self-care practices for generations. Now is when we bring our wisdom forward. It is our destiny and our birthright.
I'm carrying this in my heart: "If there is a formula, it is this: listen, listen, listen, relationship, relationship, relationship."
Grateful to you, dear Deena. I am so looking forward to being on the land with you soon.
Often readers who are not on Substack write comments directly to me and sometimes I feel they merit posting here, for example:
From KC
Thanks Deena for this follow up on the Healers Workshop. I’m not on Substak but maybe it is time to learn. We’ll be in touch. The ancestors of the Land have been awakened in the healing.
The wisdom of inviting you to keynote was likely more in the spirit of “curing” than healing, despite the rhetoric. Healing, I’m constantly learning, is a process and not always an end result.
We more often hear the term “cured” in relation to illness. That’s satisfying as it implies an end. Of course it is, when that’s true. Then we hear of “relapse” indicating there really wasn’t a cure. Healing can include adapting peacefully to our ailments, even as we endeavor to be “healed.”
Healing vs. curing is much more attainable and holistically, as in whole, is the underlying goal, even as we all want to be “healed”—done, finished.
Modern medicine has developed as acute attendance to acute problems. A pill, a surgery. Often, these produce almost immediate results. Pain mostly gone, etc.
Healing is the true work as your title states: Becoming Healers.
What’s missing in care of patients? Patience. Pun and irony intentional and intact.