CODE RED TIMES

CODE RED FOR HEALTH JUSTICE

Opening to November 4th Humanity Rising COP26 Program

In the face of climate disruption, the glaring inequities and perforated services of Western healthcare create a new kind of genocide that targets youth, communities of color, the elderly, pregnant women, babies and children, and all the hidden populations of neurodiversity, differences in ability, the houseless, migrants and people with chronic, unresolved health conditions, many of which are often completely discounted by physicians. 

As someone who focuses on serving and empowering hidden populations, I know their remarkable underlying strengths. The survivors of domestic violence, torture and sexual abuse who I serve have taught me to believe in humanity. In researching neurodevelopment, differentiating shock from trauma, and focusing on interventions that unearth human resilience, I know that my vision of Regenerative Health is a viable solution and that my Cultural Library of Regenerative Health Resources that fuses ancient applications with neuroscience is a sure path to developing community-based cadres of Regenerative Health practitioners. I intend to see this established in my lifetime.

I assembled this panel of women who know the true meaning of health and bring them together here with the youth from Sierra Leone who embody it. We are a living testimony to what a Global Regeneration Corps looks like.

Vandana Shiva motivates me to step up like this before you today, which is, in all honesty, challenging for me. Her beauty, her intelligence and the way she speaks for and to the people, mentors me. You may know about her books, her awards and her accolades, but what she is to me personally is much more intangible. She spurs me beyond trauma, beyond despair, to a breakthrough to my own wholeness. Her existence gives me hope that I too can make a contribution for the children of the future, all of whom I consider to be my children.

Woman Stands Shining Pat McCabe is a wellspring of authenticity. The accessibility of her wisdom is what I want to emulate, and I treasure both her mothering of her brilliant daughter Lyla June, and how she tends to her own mother. She is unifying, touchable, indigenous, evolving love. She is regenerative health.

I invited Shamini Jain because she, like me, integrates biofield applications with science, and thus she tells the truth about what medicine really is, saving it from the manipulative framework of industrialized, mechanistic, disrespecting and violating practices that are not healthcare. I also invited her because she brings creativity back into the definition of health and healthcare where it belongs. 

Dr. Clare Willocks has been my colleague in a field that never leaves my heart: service to mothers and babies who experience pre and perinatal shock. When we free childbirth from the grip of patriarchal, controlling and disconnected physicians we will be one step closer to a thriving future for humanity. The integration of biofield therapies in recovery from the core shocks that afflict many of us as a product of this takeover of pregnancy and childbirth is another way in which Dr. Willocks and I are eternal comrades. 

I invited the courageous climate activist youth of Sierra Leone here because they embody regenerative health. Regenerative Health means that we care for the land just as we care for the soil of our bodies. It means that we care for our people, our region, our true, indigenous culture and our communities as naturally as we breathe. Despite desertification, a crippling lack of resources, the rape of their culture and their land, these young people persist in finding viable education and nourishing their intelligence while at the same time being grateful, hard-working, regenerative innovators. And they are unifying, inclusive, welcoming intergenerational and intercultural problem-solving with open arms. 

All of us together are a Global Regeneration Corps of solutions-oriented hope. We are the resilience that is underneath despair, trauma, even shock. We live in and with the resilience that buoys us forward beyond the data to another depth of possibility. This is what is happening outside the COP26. This is, as Greta Thunberg says, where the real action is.