
Appropriation in Healing & Birth Work
This last weekend, I accidentally ended up at a white hippie “healing” camping trip in Ojai that is still making me nauseous. I say accidentally because I thought it was a retreat for healers to share and trade skills. Wow, was I wrong! Every time I think back to it, it’s not the naked people or the lost eyes or the lack of tradition that was rampantly in my face this weekend that is still irking me. It was the utter show of appropriation and complete disrespect for sacred t