Healing and Advocacy at Emerson College

We hope you have a restful summer break!

[Text: We hope you have a restful summer break! Healing and Advocacy Center along with image of person holding megaphone, plant roots, world, and star, surrounded by text “Nourish and Nurture Yourself”]

Nourishing Thursday: Close out the semester with arts and crafts today or Truman Time tomorrow

[“For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still are the powers of healing.” Yolo Akili Robinson]

Wellbeing Wednesday: Raise your voices, it’s Denim Day!

[“You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything nice and calm and pretty.” Donald Glover]

Joyous Tuesday: Knowing who you can be vulnerable with

[“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” Adrienne Rich]

Meditation Monday: Starting with oneself

[“The more radical the person is, the more fully [they enter] into reality so that, knowing it better, [they] can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider [themself] the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but [they do] commit [themself], within history, to fight at their side.” Paulo Friere]

Community Friday: swing by Bloomin’ with Truman today!

[“We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need.” Nikki Giovanni]

Nourishing Thursday

[“…I like to think that I’m just part of the struggle because we all sort of exist in this thing, trying to figure out what it means to be human day-to-day and what it means to have, like, suffered and made other people suffer.” Reginald Dwayne Betts]

Wellbeing Wednesday

[“Our movements themselves need to be healing, or there is no point to them.” Cara Page]

Joyous Tuesday: Honoring spring and National Poetry Month with wisdom from luminary Harriet Ann Jacobs

[“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” Harriet Ann Jacobs]

Community Friday: The importance of coalitions and networks

[“Anyone can take action to end violence. Action can begin with one person and one act. But to build a movement, action must become collective, strategic and forward-looking.” Mimi Kim]