Everyone’s healing process is unique.
There is no right way to heal. Each survivor or survivor family must move at their own pace and pursue the practices and tools that connect for them.
join Healing activities list at Healing@NOFJC.org
These healing practices -- mindful movement, building inner strength, body work and ear acupuncture -- are critical, non-talk-therapy methods to support the individual's whole self. It can be hard to listen to yourself or to trust yourself when your body is healing, when your nervous system is healing, and when your heart is healing after trauma.
NOFJC “Our BODIes & Trauma Responses” info sheet
free, low-cost, and sliding scale activities around Nola: Guide in English & Spanish
illustration by Happy Burbeck
Cultivating immunity.
Click here for an article on supporting your immune system during this Covid19 Crisis. Written by Jen Stovall, Community Herbalist of Maypop Community Herb Shop// Samara School of Community Herbalism and a NOFJC agency partner.
NOFJC Healing youtube channel
Our NOFJC Healing youtube videos channel for you! Recordings of past classes, grounding techniques, body scans, meditations, and more!
Art Therapy
“A Window Between Worlds”
Our Energy Work and Reiki partnerships include Dr. Stephanie Burns and Gahiji Akil Lumumba Barrow.
Valerie McMillan of The Ohm Well has shared her Chakra handout for your exploration of your own energy work. Find this handout here.
We partner with Energy Workers to provide this specific support navigating your current and past energy.
Energy Work
Self Massage for Touchless Times. For a video from Meghan of one of her classes the past several weeks, find her video here.
Meghan Johnson from St Claude Massage is our Massage Partner providing clients opportunities to safely experience touch and experience stress release.
Some stress release and RELIEF can become a possibility after several minutes away after viewing her video above. See the calendar for her upcoming workshops.
massage
Check out our NOFJC Healing youtube videos channel with some supports for meditation. Majority of our healing practices provide meditation — see the calendar for upcoming workshops. For many FREE meditation apps see the top right of this page.
Former NOFJC LGBTQ+ Yoga/Movement facilitator Meghsha Barner has created a 7 minute body scan for you here.
Curious about meditation but don’t know where to begin? Find lots of “Meditation for Beginners” tips here (and scroll down for a whole list of links to articles/websites with info about mindfulness and tips for beginners!).
Meditation
Support for you at any point throughout the day or night:
Try this virtual soothing sand tray
A 6 hour meditative track for help sleeping or creating some new energy. Try this Trigger Protection Mantra too.
A poem for you during the pandemic written by Camp Hope Director and Therapist Keva Carr
Music/Spotify Playlist: Collective Grief & Healing by the Nap Ministry
Podcasts we’re dialed into: Irresistible
Try a short and powerful guided Heart Coherence Meditation: Click here for the shorter 3 1/2-minute version, or click here for the longer 10 1/2-minute version.
other supports
for you at home
From music
to Podcasts
Yoga - active & restorative
See the calendar for our NOFJC yoga practices, but also scroll below for Valerie McMillan’s The Ohm Well yoga offerings. Available to all survivors at no cost. Email healing@nofjc.org or call (504)592-4005 to get connected. The Ohm Well offers a range of online and in person classes, from Afro Beat Power Yoga to Pre-Natal Yoga.
Groups
For additional group support beyond the NOFJC, you can check out the #GetYaMindRight support group hosted by our partners at the Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES). Meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month from 5:15pm CT - 6:15pm CT. You can attend regularly, occasionally, or even just once - join at your convenience. For registration information, or to ask any questions about the group, please email HealingIsTheRevolution@iwesnola.org
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