A speaker describes emigrating from the Philippines at six, then facing homelessness and lice after the 2008 crash. The trauma lodged in their body for years. They argue healing trauma is generational work that ripples outward to everyone you touch.
I have trauma stored in my ankles from needing to survive as a young boy moving here at the age of 6 from the Philippines and our parents losing our home in the '08 crash. And like, I literally had no like bed to sleep on for the longest time as a young boy. Like, I would be sleeping on like my parents' friends' floors. One time my brothers got lice because the floors that we were sleeping in were so dirty. And we've just been moving house to house. I never had a home. That transferred all the way up to my my young adult life. And I didn't even know, like walking day to day, going to work, I didn't have that pain. Because I just got so used to living in the pain. This work is not just for us individually, it's for our past and future generations. We impact the lives of those we work with, those we seek to serve, and then they help their people. Now we're all collectively working towards the greater good of humanity. That's why this work is so important. That's why I feel like we needed to step outside of our comfort zone to get into this space, to do the things that make us feel uncomfortable.
