The Resilience Within S3E1 w/ Estrella- “Apapacharte “

Season 3 is about self-care, because self-care is community care. Today’s guest Estrella shares what it’s like to be a migrant in a society that’s not shaped to support and care for migrant bodies. She shares about her own journey of self-care and how it has landed her back home in her childhood community, caring for her land, her parents, her child, and her own body. Self-care also includes things like dancing, even while caregiving, as well as the modalities she’s picked up through her years of seeking and training, including sound, drumming, yoga, and massage, into her everyday inner work and in her work with others.   She speaks about the wisdom and medicine of the fire, and how the respect of the fire as an elder is the same respect and deference she uses in caregiving her father. She also speaks about what it’s like to work with land that’s been contaminated by industrial toxins.