Healing Resources
Healing Songs
Healing Film
Healing Videos
- And the People Stayed Home by Kitty O’Meara. A poem about hope (and healing) in Coronavirus times
- How to Narrate Your Life Story
- Why These Native Americans Observe A National Day Of Mourning Each Thanksgiving
- Let Nature Heal You
Children and Youth Healing Bookshelf
Young Children:
- Some Things Are Scary by Florence Heide
- Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco
Teens and YA:
- Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
- The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Monthly Theme for November: Healing
Diving Deeper
Reflect on Healing
- Reflect on a time you first experienced healing by someone(s) not trying to fix you
- You may have made a mistake, but YOU are not a mistake. What does this truth mean to you
- MRI brain scans have taught us that people process relationship breakups and emotional pain in the same brain regions as physical pain and experience cravings for ex-partners similarly to the way addicts crave a drug during withdrawal. How does knowing this influence how you think about your past or present emotional pain
- How have you experienced time as a healing agent? Does time heal or does it just pass. If time doesn’t heal, what have you found healing as time goes by?
Healing Quotes
- “We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not “How can we hide our wounds?” so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but “How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?” – Henri J. M. Nouwen
- “Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.” – Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
- “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus
- “She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly.” ― Nikki Rowe
Healing Bookshelf
- Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman (a novel)
More Online Resources for Healing
- “Relinquishing (and healing from) the Patriarchy” by adrienne maree brown
- “How Racism Damages White People” by Aaron Wilson-Ahlstrom
- Everyone’s History Matters: The Wampanoag Indian Thanksgiving story deserves to be known