☥ You have the choice ☥ the power to change your life ☥
☥ You have the wisdom ☥ ability to achieve ☥ maintain Radiant Health ☥
☥ There is no "bad" part of you; only parts of you yearning for love ☥ acceptance ☥ transmutation ☥
I have wrestled with how to connect with all that is US in an authentic and meaningful way that does not offend anyone. When faced with such challenges, I allow SPIRIT ☥ TRUTH (what we consider to be God ☥ our higher power) to make the final decision.
It is uncomfortable to say out loud that colonizers could not destroy Indigenous People, so they hid them inside this term that we call “Brown.” Using the term “Brown” renders Indigenous People invisible. Invisibility is what this website endeavors to reverse. It is not my place to label anyone - in fact my life’s work encourages us to drop these titles over time. However, I feel compelled by SPIRIT to specifically name and honor Indigenous People so that we can Heal ☥ Nourish ☥ Rise ☥ Master ☥ Our ☥ Lives. For many reasons, I have decided to officially drop the term “Brown” and will now refer to US as Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People (BIIP).
☥ Dr. Phyllis SHU Hubbard ☯
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Dr. Hubbard's Three Truisms
A Cross-Cultural Healing Haven
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Even though I have been completely immersed in white culture since early childhood ☥ which is tantamount to eating vanilla ice cream for breakfast, lunch, dinner and all my snacks while watching TV, movies, listening to the radio and reading about vanilla ice cream all day ☥ every day ☥ I still continually question my views of White people, actively resist judgment and seek understanding to hold myself accountable to potential biases and fallacies.
☥ Dr. Phyllis ☥ SHU ☥ Hubbard ☥
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Why We Need A
Cross-Cultural Healing Haven
When I was a child, I spent hours rubbing my skin against the arm of my blond-haired, three-foot-tall, white Barbie doll each day. I thought life would be kinder to me if only I could get this black out of my skin. I'm incredibly grateful that my time was spent in vain, and I was able to recover from self-hatred.
That said, it took many years for me to discover my unique gifts and talents which enabled me to unapologetically accept, fall in love with and learn more about my:
☥ Curly Hair
☥ Dark Skin
☥ Unknown Ancestry
☥ Diverse Cultural Background and Experiences
When I became a healer, I discovered that most people do not like themselves so requesting that they love themselves was too much to ask upfront. I began to teach people how to get to know themselves and connect with their identity as a pathway to self-love.
While preparing for a presentation with a youth organization, I struggled to find realistic and empowering images of Black, Indian, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, Asian, Caribbean and other students to include in my PowerPoint slides. I am a serious homebody and introvert, but these struggles pushed me to do my part to create change. I became almost obsessed with collecting and taking pictures ☥ videos of and with people that I meet.
My hope is that phyllishubbard.com becomes a cross-cultural healing haven for everyone that centers Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People who endeavor to heal ☥ nourish ☥ rise so that we all can master ☥ our ☥ lives.
If you are a Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant person who has a beautiful, high-resolution picture of yourself actively engaging in your own self-care, send it to heal@phyllishubbard.com with your written permission, and we'll feature your image on phyllishubbard.com. We love pictures of children, but respectfully request that you do not send a picture of a child by themselves. To protect the beautiful energy of children, who can't give permission without a true understanding of the internet, we want pictures of children with at least one adult. Teenagers are welcome to send in images by themselves or with consenting friends.
Dr. Phyllis SHU Hubbard
On The Journey To Radiance With Edmund Lewis
About Dr. Hubbard ☥ A Pictorial Journey
I receive wisdom from SPIRIT (Owl) protection ☥ mentorship from Sekhmet ☥ Warrior Goddess ☥ Goddess Of Healing (Lioness) ☥ protection ☥ community service training from Anpu ☥ God Of Change ☥ Servant To The Disenfranchised (Jackal). The journey continues through ongoing mental ☥ emotional ☥ physical ☥ spiritual training, which I share through lifestyle wellness strategies to help us restore our humanity. Check out “What Is Qigong?” to learn more about our sacred collaboration with animals.
This is a picture of me with ☥ WolfHawkJaguar ☥ co-host of the Journey To Radiance Podcast series during our recording of our first webisode which was shot at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY. Standing behind me is DetermiNation Black Men's Group member ☥ DeMario Lewis ☥ our first guest, and ☥ Luis Montoya ☥ WolfHawkJaguar's videographer.
I truly loved working with the Sacramento leaders. They made access to the school districts and personnel much easier and they applied the healing concepts in variety of ways. They still felt guilty about self-care, so when the district liaison approached me for ideas, I told him to create a retreat with a bunch of made up strategy sessions. Then when the teachers show up, tell them to throw away their agendas and go to the spa. It worked like a charm.
I receive wisdom from SPIRIT (Owl) protection ☥ mentorship from Sekhmet ☥ Warrior Goddess ☥ Goddess Of Healing (Lioness) ☥ protection ☥ community service training from Anpu ☥ God Of Change ☥ Servant To The Disenfranchised (Jackal). The journey continues through ongoing mental ☥ emotional ☥ physical ☥ spiritual training, which I share through lifestyle wellness strategies to help us restore our humanity. Check out “What Is Qigong?” to learn more about our sacred collaboration with animals.
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