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October 2019: Why Trauma-Informed Body Work is Essential and DIY Elderberry Syrup

February 10, 2020

In This Newsletter:

-Trauma-Informed Body Work– Why? How?
-Report Back from Sept. Training
-DIY Elderberry Syrup

Notes from the Office

Hello Friends,

I’m writing today from our third clinic of the season. I’ve written before (and I am sure that I’ll write again) that for those of us on staff at PMP, Mondays are the best day of our week. It’s feeling really good to get back of the swing of things, and we are especially encouraged by how emphatically happy our clients are to be back too. Today, someone walked in for a massage appointment, saw Leslie at the welcome table and exclaimed, “You’re the amazing herbalist who has helped me so much!”

Turns out, she had gone to a free workshop Leslie led years ago, and it was transformational for her. I like this story, because it reaffirms something a teacher told me years ago when I was working as a tutor: you might not see the effects of what you teach immediately, or even soon; you just have to trust that they are there. ….

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Filed Under: News, Uncategorized Tagged With: access, body work, elderberry, health justice, herbalism, trauma, trauma-informed

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The People’s Medicine Project is a small grassroots health justice organization. The Consortium is our umbrella organization.

 

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