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I am a multifaceted health practitioner (or healer) committed to evidence-based, scientific understandings of preventative care, trauma informed care, community health practice, holistic health, behavioral health, and harm reduction.
What is healing? Over the years, I have found that it is imperative that I share my own definition of this term. For me, the word "healing" refers to an ongoing state of being able to cope with adverse systems by managing them and find ease with them while preventing, navigating, and minimizing active conflicts, obstacles, challenges, illnesses, or errors. According to this definition, I am a healer who empowers people to embrace healing for themselves. For me, healing is also navigation and education: skill-sharing and providing knowledge, tools, and tips for healthy living. Healing is a down-to-earth, humanist, and realist endeavor. It's not mystical or magical. It is as much feeling-based (honoring and attuned to our emotional intelligence) as it is evidence-based (honoring and attuned to best practices gleaned from research).
After receiving certification from the Armstrong School in Washington, DC in my late teens, I worked for as a part-time nurse assistant at DC General Hospital, the city's so-called "pauper's hospital" in Southeast D.C. and Providence Hospital in Northeast D.C., a facility that served many low income patients. Thus, I developed a strong commitment to providing health services to the neediest and most at-risk individuals, including helping them navigate obstacles to quality care. To maintain my certification and former LPN licensure, I took adult learning courses in trauma informed care and harm reduction at A.R.E. and Armstrong and I worked part-time as a nurse assistant and health navigator at other medical centers like FutureCare (an assisted living facility for seniors). I am no longer certified, licensed, or in practice in the nursing field, but I still do work in health navigation and training.
I gained certificates from the Midwest Holistic School of Massage and the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine where I studied tui-na and qigong healing. I also studied wat po healing at Thailand's Suai School.
I am blessed to have studied Alexander Technique with Lucy Venable, Barbara Conable and William Conable, and guided clients in Alexander principles for ease of movement and healthy action.
I also once maintained a practice as an herbalist committed to the scientifically-based, medically safe use of plants for preventative care, which I learned in lessons from the late Donatella Egwu who was a student of the curandera, Maria Sabina (1896-1985).
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