I Heal - We Heal

"...I'm going to figure a way to never ever let that happen again, that was not the person I wanted to be—in fact, I as an acupuncturist know what I was doing was toxic to body..."

"...I really did see my life flash before my eyes & I thought 'this is it, this is it— the end' but I heard a voice say 'not now—not now' and it just happened so fast, the car was spinning, and I just felt like I was...

"...I've never been to the ER , I've never had anything like that happen to me before so I didn't really understand the magnitude of what was really happening, I just know that I was struggling to breathe..."

"...I found that he was someone in and out of prison and I continued to remain in that relationship even though he was always absent and when he was present he was abusive. Around the age of 26 years old—I ran from him...

"...navigating the life of a 7 year old whose father just been stripped away, who was taken to prison, who had just been outed as a pedophile/child abuser -- to a point where her whole world had just completely...

"...he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at 60 years old and that really changed the tragectory of my life and my thought process of life and how we're supposed to move through life..."

"...my mom fought hard to break generational curses, meaning when I ran away my mom was like it's not happening like we're gonna break that curse, you're going to stay here with us, we're going to work through whatever...

"...5 years ago we were in pandemic stages and when you think, it's end of May-- we would've been in lockdown for quite some time..alot of us were starting to feel very hopeless...it took away alot of the busyness to...

"...he was waiting in the garage...we walked in and opened the door and there he was-- now my friend was taller than me so I didn't see the gun until I heard the shot and she was laying at my feet..."

"...so intentionally apply pain, suffering, sacrifice, and uncomfortability in a loving way...because when we apply those things in a loving way -- pain brings change , connection , and repentence ..."

"I think it's easy when people come across an alcoholic to say 'oh just stop drinking and then those problems will go' , and it's like well actually...the drinking is happening because it's actually solving a problem &...

"...my father died when I was only 13--took him a cup of coffee and he was there having a heart attack on the sofa...back then there wasn't really any support, especially for younger children who had experienced any...

"...my mom suffered from ovarian cancer for 5.5 months before she died...and I had the tough decision to make if I wanted my mom to die in my home surrounded by my children who were young at the time & have the energy...

"...when I was 14 I attempted suicide and I was blamed by my mother for ruining her life when the ambulance came to pick me up, and a week after that she actually put me in an all girls home because they no longer...

"...I didn't have grandmas growing up because they were passed away but I had this lady that chose to kinda adopt us as a grandma and I loved her-- she had Multiple Sclerosis and so for about 25 years I watched her just...