“Como tantas mujeres negras, Adriana alzó la voz. Expresó lo que sentía en su cuerpo, y como profesional sanitaria, sabía cómo moverse en el sistema médico”, dijo Simpson, añadiendo que para cuando Smith fue diagnosticada “ya era demasiado tarde”.
in or near houses of worship.“It was as if they were able to exhale a big breath,” the Rev. Hierald Osorto said of the 30 congregants who signed up for the first well-being session in March at St. Paul’s, where an outdoor mural features two traditional Swedish Dala horses between the Spanish words “sanación” (healing) and “resiliencia” (resilience).
After last Sunday’s worship, the altar table and Easter lilies were moved to make room for seven acupuncture chairs, arranged in a circle facing the central cross. Three massage tables were set up in front of the pews for the Reiki treatment, where practitioners hold their hands on or near the body’s energy centers.“To see this space be quite literally a place of healing, in the place where we talk about it right at the altar, it moved me to tears,” Osorto said.Wellness practitioners and mental health clinicians say anxiety and depression among those they serve in migrant communities have spread and intensified this year.
Already, migrants often arrive withfrom violence they fled in their home countries as well as attacks along
to and through the U.S. border.
Women in particular often suffer sexual violence on the journey. For many, the fear that they or someone in their families might be deported is revictimizing. That makes it imperative that “safe places” exist where they can focus on wellness, said Noeline Maldonado, executive director of The Healing Center, which helps domestic and sexual violence victims in Brooklyn, New York.El Deeb reported from Beirut. AP reporters Matthew Lee in Washington, Farnoush Amiri at the United Nations, Meg Kinnard in Chapin, South Carolina, and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart, which became the nation’s largest retailer by making low prices a priority, has found itself in a place it’s rarely been: Warning customers that prices will rise for goods ranging from bananas to car seats.Executives at the $750 billion company told industry analysts Thursday that they’re doing everything in their power to absorb the higher costs from
ordered by President Donald Trump.Given the magnitude of the duties, however, the highest since the 1930s, higher prices are unavoidable, and they will hurt Walmart customers already buffeted by inflation over the past three years.