Land Based Jawns

On Motherwort & the Medicines…

When I first entered this room with Vashti, I felt clear that Motherwort would be our guide. Supportive for both sexual and cardiac health, she is known to connect the heart and the uterus, helping us to heal the heartache and grief carried in our wombs. Motherwort gently encourages us to heal inherited trauma. This trauma is rooted in violence against women, and especially Black women. Like the pain inflicted upon Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey, we often store this trauma in our wombs, passing it down through generations if left unaddressed.

But our bodies and wombs don’t only carry wounds. They also carry the wisdom of our mothers, foremothers, and ancestral lineages. The three medicines who also guide this room are “Momma Wounds”, “Momma Wisdom”, and “Be Gentle with Me” each containing Motherwort as the mother herb. As their names indicate, they aid us in healing imbalances connected to mothering - whether that be our relationships to our mothers, grandmothers, or children - and support with connecting to our Divine Feminine, nourishing, yin energies. Energy that I and many of us need right now.

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DJ & Keynote Speaker:

Emcee: Deacon Dr. Shanaé Burch

Artists: Malidelphia (drum), Trapeta Mayson (poetry), Reverend Rhetta (song and drum)

Honorees: Tien Sydnor-Campbell , Kirtrina Baxter, Chris Bolden-Newsome, and Nyambi Royster (in memoriam), accepted by her sons.

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