Join us on a journey through perspective where Lori Edwards discusses her 3 lives: as an adopted child, a young mother to a an ill child while being an EMT, her new life with her family having a transgender child, and how her experiences have allowed her to build community wherever she goes. She copes through writing, reading, and allowing herself to continue to grow from experiences that are not just her own.

Aida is an artist that host a one woman show revealing her trauma and having participants reflect. In this episode gives insight into her own life on how her journey has lead her to heal through art, heal others, as well as reconnect to how she identifies. 

Angie Michelle Barraza is a painter and has used art to help her navigate through her struggles from grade school as well as an adult. She expresses her struggles in having been groomed by an older boy during her youth, being mixed-race here in the borderland (Afro-Latina and Spanish speaking) as well as reevaluating her life while she was healing from her trauma.

Angie Michelle Barraza now utilizes her art to enhance other artists voices in now being a member of the Arts Association as well as putting forward an artist of the week. Check out her Healing Arts podcast coming up this week!

Our podcasts are for those in recovery, survivors, and the everyday people who wish to be inspired by local/traditional artists who reveal their art, how they came to be, challenges (including those of intersectionality), and their current community outreach.

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Listen to Sandra Ramirez's journey of how she expresses her body through dance, her struggle in gender expression as a cis-gendered woman, an eating disorder, and what it means to "have the body of a dancer". 

Take a listen through a journey of resiliency in which our artist, Gabrielle Lennon, tells about her life, her mental health journey of recovery, overcoming blocks, and ultimately sharing her knowledge as a writer/actor to the community. There is mention of her suicidal ideation/tendencies as well as sexual harassment." Our podcasts are for those in recovery, survivors, and the everyday people who wish to be inspired by local/traditional artists who reveal their art, how they came to be, challenges (including those of intersectionality), and their current community outreach. #healingwithheart #recovery #sexualassaultawarenessmonth #inspiration #hope #healing #resilient #mentahealth #healingtrauma #healingtraumaintheborderlands #contentwarning

Norman grew up Black and Gay, from a Black Church family, attending Catholic Schools in the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago. Bullied by family beliefs and expectations, and called a f@g in grade school when he didn’t even know what it meant, Norman’s journey led him to multiple unsafe situations. Now he has learned to take what has always been unique about himself and he is celebrating it, and encouraging others to find their “unicorn” power!

This podcast is part of a project by the Borderland Rainbow Center in El Paso, Texas to bring non-traditional Queer, Intersectional healing arts to survivors of trauma.

https://www.borderlandrainbow.org/

Facebook @borderlandrainbowcenter

Instagram @borderlandrainbowcenter

Twitter @BRainbowCenter

YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4GRplymPUJBnfEn9zbPJg

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This work is funded by TAASA on behalf of the Department of Justice.

In his youth Joseph, like nearly all of us, absorbed harmful narratives and beliefs about himself.  These beliefs that we are not worthy lead to all kinds of self-destructive behaviors.  And the limitless taboos that society invents to shame and terrorize us only make it worse.  Joseph found recovery from addiction, and he found his authentic self, his “superhero powers,” when he left unhelpful beliefs and narratives behind.  Joseph fInds recovery from trauma, and he gains love and success.  But his greatest gift is knowing himself and being proud of who he is, and the life he leads.

This podcast is part of a project by the Borderland Rainbow Center in El Paso, Texas to bring non-traditional Queer, Intersectional healing arts to survivors of trauma.

https://www.borderlandrainbow.org/

Facebook @borderlandrainbowcenter

Instagram @borderlandrainbowcenter

Twitter @BRainbowCenter

YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4GRplymPUJBnfEn9zbPJg

Contact [email protected]

This work is funded by TAASA on behalf of the Department of Justice.

In his youth Joseph, like nearly all of us, absorbed harmful narratives and beliefs about himself.  These beliefs that we are not worthy lead to all kinds of self-destructive behaviors.  And the limitless taboos that society invents to shame and terrorize us only make it worse.  Joseph found recovery from addiction, and he found his authentic self, his “superhero powers,” when he left unhelpful beliefs and narratives behind.  Joseph fInds recovery from trauma, and he gains love and success.  But his greatest gift is knowing himself and being proud of who he is, and the life he leads.

This podcast is part of a project by the Borderland Rainbow Center in El Paso, Texas to bring non-traditional Queer, Intersectional healing arts to survivors of trauma.

https://www.borderlandrainbow.org/

Facebook @borderlandrainbowcenter

Instagram @borderlandrainbowcenter

Twitter @BRainbowCenter

YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4GRplymPUJBnfEn9zbPJg

Contact [email protected]

This work is funded by TAASA on behalf of the Department of Justice.