“Healing takes time and I feel like over time, you just find what makes your rhythm click.”
Ahmad Abdullah
Mastery Charter School - Shoemaker Campus
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“If you can't get back to joy, in a decent amount of time, then you need help.”
Altovise Love-Craighead
EMIR Healing Center
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“What I hope is that they can be doing more than surviving.”
Bradley Stolbach, PhD
Healing Hurt People Chicago
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“I think we have to be willing to do that reparative work in the city.”
The Rev. Carol S. Reese, LCSW
Healing Hurt People Chicago
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“Healing for me is always changing, but that means I have to pay attention to me and what's going on with me and my body.”
Chantay Love
EMIR Healing Center
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“We have to find it within ourselves to know that we have everything that we need to be whole, to thrive, to grow.”
Charles E. Moore, MD, FAACE
Urban Health Initiative
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“Healing itself is a collaborative process.”
Fatimah Loren Dreier, MA
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
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“Black joy is something that resonates.”
Jacqui Johnson
Sankofa Healing Studio
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“The thing about recognizing trauma is there is no aha moment, We live in trauma. That's our world.”
Jaya Touma Shoatz
Mastery Charter School - Shoemaker Campus
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“I have a story, and it's still going.”
Jose Ferran
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
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“There's a fear that exists, from living in an environment where that is normalized— It's not sustainable to feel that level of fear all the time.”
Khalil Taylor
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
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“Know that there are resources within yourself.”
Lisa Nelson-Haynes
Philly Young Playwrights
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"I learned to help others heal, kindness is what you need."
Max Lapsley
CNSJ Training Academy Intern
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"I think the only way to learn is by sharing experiences and hoping that some form of healing can occur through dialogue."
Nathaniel Pineda
Drexel University College of Medicine
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“So when it comes to hope, I feel like it's never completely gone. I feel like every day is a new start.”
Raqib Robinson
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
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“It's not just the individuals or the communities who are experiencing the trauma, it actually inhibits our whole society.”
Sharelle Barber, ScD, MPH
Urban Health Collaborative
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“As a school, as a community, we have to consciously be aware of and focus not only on the triggers and the trauma, but also how do we heal?.”
Sharif El-Mekki
The Center for Black Educator Development
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“I think there's power in speaking your truth.”
Tatiana Amaya
Mastery Charter School - Shoemaker Campus
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