That’s when I started getting focused on my healing

And I finally started giving myself the resources that I had never been able to give myself permission to access before

 
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I met my now acupuncturist, a Chinese woman a generation above me who had navigated similar traumas and experiences.

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I learned elements of my own culture’s ancient medicines.

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I became more in tune with my body and its needs,

the ways it tries to communicate its needs to me,

signal to me when something isn’t right,

or that a shift needs to happen.

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I took a beginning martial arts class specifically taught by an Asian woman.



This helped me to reconnect with and heal my relationship with my body;


I noticed things about my body and myself that I never realized.

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I felt more empowered and confident, I regained my sense of agency over my life;


not because I could now kick someone’s ass (that too ;P),


but because I was much more aligned with my body’s intuition and wisdom than I had ever been before.


Martial arts helped me to “dance and play with my trauma,”

come to acceptance about what I had experienced, and

transform it into healing, growth, and wisdom for my continued journey.

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