Vol. 7, Issue 3 | Winter 2021-22
healing
Sponsored by
RENEW BIOMEDICAL TRAINING ACADEMY AND MASTER MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
editor's note
I became the Program Director of Our Jackson Home in February of 2020 — just a month before COVID-19 lockdowns would begin, I was dreaming about the future of this organization and the events we would hold. Suddenly, the future was a big question mark. What things would look like seemed to change month to month.
The pandemic changed the way we live our lives and interact with our community in ways that we're still trying to understand. It also revealed the ways in which the health of us as individuals and as a community are intertwined, and how the definition of "healthy" communities and individuals is bound up in a variety of factors — for our minds and our bodies to be well, there's a web of conditions that can make or break us.
A year and a half into the pandemic, I felt lost. The excitement I had begun with was wearing off after a year of constant adjustment. Maybe it was burnout, maybe it was a steady stream of change in my own life, maybe it was compounding effects of a year of pandemic living, but I had re-evaluate what it meant for me to be healthy. It meant peeling away some things and making room for the new.
Just as I've been asking myself what it means for me to be truly healthy in all facets, there's a larger question working itself out in these pages: What does it mean for our community to be truly healthy? It's not something we'll answer overnight. Maybe the better question to ask is what we can do to heal our community and ourselves. Who are the people mending and repairing, and how do we join them?
Courtney Searcy, Editor-in-Chief
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