Healing

What happens when a moment of collective trauma completely changes the direction of a person's life and transforms music into a vehicle for healing, connection, and human consciousness? Hello, everyone, and welcome to NeuroAlchemy, the Brain Body Healing Podcast.

This is the space where science meets soul, where healing is understood as multidimensional, and where we explore the nonlinear pathways back to wholeness.

I'm your host, Dr. Sarah Young.

Awesome.

So the book you published before, this was Godspeed, Poems, Grief, Healing, and the Human Condition.

What inspired you to jump from poems to romance? I noticed that you said that, you know, it was a good segue, the emotional undertones, and that you want to write more romance.

So what does the future of romance look like to you?

yeah yeah only love can heal we are create from love

if strength is endurance 22 what is healing in your definition today

for me telling is becoming my true self is staying peace inside myself because the peace is the highest what we can have from this world yes if we have the peace we can find the home that home inside Healing is trusting myself.

I can't give the question another person how I can do this.

I know how I can do this.

in, in that way.

And I remember when we previously had a guest on the show, and Millicent asked them and said, "Have you ever been prayed for in church?" You know, um, where they said you would receive your healing.

Healing.

Mm.

Have you ever encountered an event like that?

I was thinking about the fact that I work in social movements and my encounter which really invigorated my brain was with studying Buddhism and meditation, and I've gone in a tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and Shambhala and meditation practices, so a lot of what you had to say was just a particular resonance.

But I wanted to read a quote, and everybody, this is from Healing Resistance, Kazu's book, And I want to read you a quote to really frame up and really how much it helped me in thinking about social movements and individuals.

On one side, many activist movements have the courage to put their bodies on the line in the militancy to shut down highways, occupy government buildings and resist and blockade injustice in its tracks.

Yet, I find too often that the very cycles of harm that we're trying to fight get replicated within those same movements.

And at some point, if we're not doing the work to bring ourselves more whole again, then we're actually ultimately not getting any better.

Oh, thank you.

Everybody, we're talking with Kazu Haga, author of Healing Resistance and Fierce Vulnerability.

Your personal story, you talked about difficulties when you were younger and some of the experiences you had.

So yeah, like it's, there's always more unpacking to do and it's really exciting.

And I also, I, I am the type of gal who is like, Healing is really important and identity work is really important.

But also, can we just be really, really fucking human and have so much fun? Yeah, take healing so serious.

Like, yeah, you know, I'm, I'm that party girl at heart.

Mm

... where it is, it's called Heal, Grow, and Thrive.

So it's a 24-week coaching program.

Wow.