By La Sarmiento — 2019
Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important
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The black box is awkward at best and excruciating at worst. But it’s where change happens.
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“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”
Food is love—that message is clear in the work being done by LaRayia Gaston, activist and founder of Lunch On Me, which feeds 10,000 organic, plant-based meals to the homeless each month.
Sheila Rubin writes about transformance, a term used to describe “the force in the psyche that’s moving towards growth and expansion and transformation,” and the idea that healing is “not just an outcome but a process that exists within each person that emerges in conditions of safety.”
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There’s an expectation of what is supposed to happen during the holidays: images of a family gathered around a tree, presents, food, love and connection as people smile at each other. But if your family is different, there sometimes can be shame.