My spiraling path to Folks Healing is one that includes many healing modalities and attempts at finding reconnection. For a large part of my healing journey, I felt a disconnect between what I knew and what my body was ready for. When talk therapy cannot fully uncover the buried memories of leaving Vietnam at four years old and living in a refugee camp, I turn to spiritual healers and teachers who understand that healing extends beyond the mind and the material world. Thay Thích Nhất Hạnh's teachings show me a path back to my body and how to practice presence and interdependence within a sangha. I'm learning how to connect with my ancestors through altar building and how ritual work can bring collective healing with Dohee Lee. They help me remember my wholeness and to reconnect. 

In participating in the Navajo Healing Project, Thuy, Daniel, and Rosie, alongside my classmates, have helped me deepen my relationship to land, ancestors, and family. They remind me that the medicine is in plain sight. I just need to listen, discern, and be in right-relationship. Learning how to live seasonally has allowed me to have moments where I'm able to return to my body, and relax into abundance. I am grateful to be a part of the Folks Healing community, where de-conditioning is part of embodied learning, remembering is a step towards healing, and community care nurtures belonging.

The threads of community care and reconnection weave into other parts of my life. By day, I support 5th graders in crossing the threshold into adolescence and in the evenings, I moonlight as a community organizer, working towards collective liberation.