Healing Secondary Trauma & Activating Courageous Dreaming

*An Herbal Healing Session for People in the Healing Professions*

In the face of Covid-19 and all the systemic violence and inequity mainly impacting Black and Brown communities, this herbal healing session will offer a space to examine the effects of secondary trauma that you may be carrying as result if being in service to communities who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Are you a healer, health care worker, educator, community organizer/activist, mental health provider, or play a role in where you’re holding the well-being and safety of BIPOC communities? Then, this is for you! This session will provide a moment for you to breath, ground, release and be in harmony with the healing power of plants.

You will learn about plants that can support you through secondary trauma, collective grief, fear, anxiety, and stress. We will hold and support one another to clear the blockages that trauma creates, and ignite our collective ability and power to boldly and courageously dream the world we want to give birth to.

Materials List:

Other

Vegetable glycerin (for non-alcoholic herbal extract)

and/or brandy (for alcohol-based solution)

8 oz mason jar or glass jar with lid

*if able, bring a lighter and something to smudge with like incense, palo santo, copal, sage, or any medicine/resin you can burn. If you can’t access any burnable medicine, you can bring a white candle.

Plants/Herbs

Fresh or dry (ideally organic) lemon balm

Spearmint

Rose (ensure roses haven’t been sprayed with pesticides).

Or any herbs you have access to.

About Tania Romero:

Tania Romero is a Queer herbalist, healer, mother, educator, ceremonial womxn, and activist of Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican descent. For over 17 years she has provided socio-emotional and holistic healing support to youth, womxn, families, and communities across the United States and internationally. Tania’s herbalism work is grounded in the healing powers of her maternal grandmother, in the teachings of her parents, who use food and plants as medicine, and in the teachings of her spiritual elders and teachers. She is the founder of Herbal Rising, which provides healing services rooted in the intelligence of earth-based healing modalities and spirituality.