Becoming reconnected—overcoming the mindset of separation—is how humans heal from trauma. Reconnecting can mean remembering traditions and honoring our community’s wisdom. It can mean researching our family history and finding out how our wealth was generated. It will probably mean remembering and reexperiencing painful events. I know this was the case for me. There’s so much that I had pushed out of my memory, that I had wanted to forget. Reconnecting might mean having vulnerable, difficult, awkward conversations with people who are harmed by the system from which we benefit. It may entail
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