The Transformative Power of Practice by Staci Haines and Ng’ethe Maina
The Disease of Being Busy by Omid Safi
Tricia Hersey and The Nap Ministry
Gabor Maté, in conversation at CIIS: Mind Body Health & Mind Body Connection
Irresistible (formerly Healing Justice) podcast: conversations & guided practices
Resources on self-care, stress conditions and conscious embodiment:
When The Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté
Healing From Within with Chi Nei Tsang by Gilles Marin
Unwinding the Belly by Allison Post
Senses Wide Open: The Art and Practice of Living in Your Body by Johanna Putnoi
Bone, Breath and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment edited by Don Hanlon Johnson
The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality by R. Louis Schultz and Rosemary Feitis
Acupressure’s Potent Points: A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments by Michael Reed Gach
The Intuitive Body: Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido by Wendy Palmer
Kindling: Writings on the Body by Aurora Levins Morales
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping. 1994 – Third Edition 2004. by Robert M. Sapolsky
Health Justice
Join this growing movement of story-tellers, advocates and community resilience cultivators.
“Health justice is grounded in our collective right — by the virtue of the incalculable miraculousness of being alive — to feel at home and safe in our own bodies and for the systems and institutions which exist to care for our health to support and create the conditions to uphold this right.” – Mordecai Cohen Ettinger
Disability Justice
“Accessibility is more than adherence to a law. It’s an ethos that values different ways of being in the world.” – Alice Wong
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice by Mia Mingus
Principles of Disability Justice – a working draft by Patty Berne
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
This is Disability Justice by Nomy Lamm
Sick Woman Theory by Joanna Hedva
A Beginner’s Guide to Fragrance & Chemical Sensitivities
A Babe-Licious Healing Justice Statement by BadAss Visionary Healers (BAVH)
Anatomy (can be) Fun
Drawings, Illustrations and Art
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you. Your feelings need you. Your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things. – Thich Nhat Hanh