Cultivating Self

Local Community Actions and

Trauma Conscious Resilience

Dear beautiful souls,

 

We are thrilled to share our recent WINS with you! We also invite you to connect more intimately with us and learn more about the many ways YOU can proactively support the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our healthcare and healer community.

 

Together, anything is possible!

Newsletter Highlights ~

  • Civic Action Brings Hope to Hawai'i's Healthcare Crisis

  • Trauma Conscious Resilience Trainings and Education

  • How to get involved, support, and stay connected!

Civic Action for Healthcare

Big Island, Hawai'i

We had quite a magical gathering last weekend in support of healthcare providers and healers on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

 

The Hawaiian islands currently face a unique healthcare crisis, but neighboring and more rural islands like Kauai and Big Island have been especially devastated by the lack of: affordable and quality holistic care, access to quick and efficient emergency services, and culturally responsive mental health services. We also continue to grapple with increasing physician and nurse suicide, and in places like Hawai'i with exorbitant costs of living and shamefully low wages, the mental health of our healthcare providers is particularly impacted, driving them off the island and away from the profession altogether, further exacerbating this crisis. While we appreciate and support the efforts taken at the state and federal levels, attempting to react to this crisis, we are interested in proactively addressing these issues locally. How can we cultivate community that is empowered to take action and pool our resources to support real people in real time?

 

Here is what WE are doing about it!

It was an honor to co-create this event with HI Vibration Farm, as we came together to offer our services to the land and share a beautiful and nutritious meal. Through this intentionally curated event, we were able to unpack very heavy issues. We created several calls to action and look forward to regular follow up gatherings to support integration into our communities and to build solidarity.

 

Read what residents stated as their most urgent concerns:

  • Access to holistic childcare

  • Affordable housing for caregivers

  • Systemic and structural racism in healthcare system

  • Shortage of healthcare practitioners (doctors, nurses, therapist, social workers)

  • Increased wait times to see providers

  • Poor quality of care due to healthcare provider burnout increases patient deaths

  • Must travel to Oahu for specialty services/trauma/surgery

  • Expensive insurance coverage

  • Lack of natural, healthy foods to local community (Hawai'i islands import over 85% of foods)

  • Need more preventative care options

  • Spiritual healing vs. medical healing

  • Lack of access to land

  • Lack of support with breaking unhealthy habits/patterns/addictions

  • Isolation of the elder population

  • Better knowledge of plant medicine and herbal formulations

  • Greed as a motivator in providing treatment

 

The feedback from community members who participated confirmed that we need more localized grassroots initiatives if we hope to reimagine and shift current states of health for ourselves, the earth and all our kin.

 

See more photos and video here!

To learn more about these issues, check out the following resources:

 

Watch:

  • Challenges to Healthcare in Hawaii (Point-Counterpoint Hawaii)

  • Are we paying enough attention to Healthcare in Hawaii (Community Matters)

 

Listen:

  • Hope for the Hawaiian Healthcare Crisis

 

Read:

  • Becker's Hospital Review: 10 best, worst states for nurses in 2023

  • Health worker shortages ‘lead to excess deaths’ – study

  • Hawaii, Wyoming lead the country in share of population impacted by primary care doctor shortages

  • Hawaii’s Struggle To Provide Health Care For Rural Islands Nearly Turned Tragic For This Expectant Mom

Trauma Conscious Resilience Trainings and Education

We are excited to announce our Trauma Conscious Resilience Trainings and Educational playshops! Our offerings are available for Fall/Winter 2023 bookings to bring into your organization (hospital, clinic, care facility, etc.)!

 

Visit us here to inquire and get a quote, or email us at directly cultivatingselfnow@gmail.com

Ways to support

We need all the support we can get to continue on our mission healthy and sustainably. We hope you will choose to join us!

  • Make a tax deductible donation

  • Hire us to serve your community or organizations through any number of our offerings (retreats, Trauma Conscious trainings/education, Neuroplasticity for Resilience playshops, sound healing/therapy/baths, basics of meditation, guided meditations, Restorative/Yin Yoga, regenerative financial planning, Intro to Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture)

  • Donate your beautiful space/home/retreat center to host a Cultivating Self caregiver retreat

     

    Send all email inquiries to cultivatingselfnow@gmail.com

Connect with us!

We are always looking to amplify voices and stories from community leaders sharing their "wins" evolving the healthcare system. If you would like to be highlighted, email us cultivatingselfnow@gmail.com

 
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