Join us for an interview with Wheels Darling where we discuss her path towards becoming an acupuncturist, herbalist, and health educator with an anti-oppression analysis.

Topics we cover include:

Mutual aid as medicine
Coming of age as full-time activist
Possibility magic as a tool and anti-oppression lens
Becoming a healer and educator
Choosing to pursue an advanced degree/medical license
Dynamic transformation, sacred openings, nervous system repatterning, cognitive reframing, and the magic of dreaming and thinking bigger
Being a healthcare worker during COVID
Connecting to ancestral earth-based spirituality
Cultural appropriation in spirituality and medicine

About Wheels:

Wheels Darling is a queer acupuncturist, herbalist, body worker, healer, educator, witch, and collaborator of educational projects. They are based in the place currently called Portland, Oregon. Wheels is particularly excited to work in the places that are in between, the liminal spaces between what was, what is, and what could be. She uses this imaginal vantage to dream up educational programs, treatment plans for her patients, health equity plans of action, intimacies with her family, friends, lovers, communities, the larger world of humans, and all that is other than human.

Wheels' specialty is that she is a generalist. She's studied literature, political economy, herbalism, East Asian Medicine, queer and feminist theories, revolutionary and radical movements, ways of honoring each of the beings of this planet, histories and stories of those not represented in normative history books, magic, euro-pagan-earth-based spirituality, somatic healing, creative writing, and many other forms of Liberation Studies.

Find Wheels online:

On the web: Wheelsdarling.com, www.openhandhealth.com
On Social Media: Instagram @WheelsDarling, @openhandhealth

Links to relevant resources:

Wheels offers classes at Openhandhealth.com

Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website

On the web: https://somanywings.org
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast
On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

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