02. Healing in Community

This episode features a special interview with four of Michelle’s close comrades and colleagues. Michelle brought the team of Healing in Community facilitators together to hear about how they are tending their hearts at this time—Katie Veleta, Johnette Walser, Amy Burtaine, and Stephanie Ghoston Paul co-led an online retreat this past summer with Michelle, and they are reuniting for a special offering this fall: an online series exploring topics such as Collective Grief and Liberation, Embodying Grief, How to be a Living Ancestor, Decolonizing Our Relationship with the Land, and more. In this conversation, Katie, Johnette, Amy, and Stephanie share about the ways in which they are continuing to heal in community and how they are finding and creating refuge at this time.  This episode explores: - How to heal amidst the turmoil of life at this time - The value of being tender hearted - The connection between pain and joy - How to connect with joy and allow oneself to be in the experience of joy - How to set boundaries and break up with people, old habits, thoughts and patterns - The hearts capacity to heal and feel - Heart work that the group of facilitators if bringing forth at this time Music: Charles Kurtz 

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This podcast emerged from work based in the exploration of collective grief and liberation. It exists to remind us about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times, and to remind us about the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. Michelle C. Johnson, author, yoga teacher, healer, social worker, dismantling racism trainer, activist, and grief-worker, offers monthly interviews, engaging and amplifying the brilliance and wisdom of people who have found ways to honor their grief and stay centered amidst the turmoil in the world. It uplifts the brilliance and wisdom of people who are invested in creating conditions for liberation for the collective. We feature spiritual teachers, movement practitioners, activists and social change makers, and people who hold space in various ways for healing.