Living in Asheville and moving in circles with healers and social innovators, I struggle with how both of these groups often avoid addressing and discussing issues of oppression and cultural patterns of superiority, particularly White supremacy. It has been incredibly nourishing to be at the Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference this weekend, joining a team that is holding space for dialogue around dismantling White Supremacy culture, how it shows up at a conference like this, how it shows up in our lives and communities and how as healers, this is an essential component that we must address to truly be able to do the healing work being called for at this time. This conference has made this conversation a central part of the platform and gives many opportunities for its mostly White attendees to engage in meaningful dialogue, practical learning, and healing. In addition, they have created a SisterLove space that is a sanctuary only for women of color. I return today for day 3 and am deeply inspired and hopeful that I will continue to see more courageous leadership like those of this conference who recognize the central role that this awareness must have in predominantly White gathering spaces that are in service to a greater good. And I bow reverently to the women of color who spoke up and invited action to be taken so that they too could experience this healing women-only conference as a place of refuge, medicine and returning to the ancient roots of healing that course through their cultural lineages.