“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer

I do this work in honor of my ancestors and communities whose wisdom and resilience are my greatest gifts. I do this work in honor of the generations that are coming up and are leading us fierce. I do this work in honor of what it takes to find grace, empowerment, self-love, and inner trust in the process of healing. I do this work in honor of the messiness, the complexity, and fluidity our human-ness. I do this work in honor of the wisdom we all contain within, at the center of our unique, creative, sacred, and expressive beings. I do this work with the understanding that this journey is not linear; it often does not have a clear and definitive place to land, and requires intentional practices for us to unlearn and relearn, over and again. I do this work because it is our birthright to know ourselves deeply and lovingly, and honor ourselves as whole, fierce, resilient, and intuitive beings. I do this work to support community wellness, to find ourselves in deeper relational connection, and in interdependent care that offers collective healing. I do this work in honor of the ways we resist, knowing that historically BIPoC, LGBTQAI2S+, Disabled folks have known and cultivate healing traditionally, culturally, communally, and continually in brilliant and significant ways against politicized and institutionalized trajectories of manifest destiny, colonization, imperialism, capital globalism, enslavement, land appropriation and desecration, tourism, gentrification, racism, ableism, gender violence, historical oppression, attempted erasure, and ongoing systemic repression. I do this work in honor of the ways our existence is resistance and the ways decolonial reimagining within ourselves is the healing we deserve. I do this work to support guiding us home to the center of ourselves among each other.

We are more fierce together in our healing. Ometeotl.

This journey of creating healing spaces and opportunities is one of intention and humble gratitude, and in honor all of the ways I have been held and guided. In honor of my own healing journey. I am made from the many peoples and places I have known and originate from. I am the culmination of cultures, ancestors, family, comrades, justice and truth seekers, earth places I have grown with and visited, mentors, teachers, healers, spirit wisdoms, ceremonies, and rituals. This journey is not solely my own. I honor the ones who have held me in this journey, encouraged me, nurtured my curiosity and being, and inspired me along the way. As a Xicana/Mestiza raised on Pueblo (Tua-Tah, Tigua, Tewa), Mescalero Apache and Diné ancestral lands of the Southwest desert, and as a healer who is grounded in decolonial, liberation, and Xicanx, Mexica, Nahua, Chichimica-Jonaz Indigenous practices, I also humbly offer my gratitude to the Coast Salish peoples, whose ancestral connections are immemorial to the place I currently reside and offer healing. All land is sacred Indigenous loved land. This sacred land where I reside and practice is the occupied and appropriated lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples, territory also called Seattle, Washington. I pay my respects and honor all Native and Indigenous relatives, communities, and peoples who are the traditional healers of the places we move through and the original caretakers and story keepers of these lands which they have long nurtured, tended, gathered, found nourishment and medicines, and cultivated vast, deep wisdoms for healing and thriving. As Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal/First Nations/Tribal peoples have survived while continuing to thrive and resist colonial violence in all its forms, with them and my ancestors, I am aligned in this struggle. I support Land Back and Black & Afro-Indigenous leadership. In gratitude and respect, I pay Real Rent Duwamish in support of their rights to be recognized, sovereign, and in honor of them as the rightful caretakers and guides of this place I currently call home.

In honor of the collective in which we heal and find liberation. Ometeotl.

“Call your spirit back. It may be caught in the corners or creases of shame, judgement, and human abuse. You must call in a way that your spirit will want to return. Speak to it as you would to a beloved child”. -Joy Harjo