Healing Trauma Holistically

This talk will cover the work of a community health clinic and how holistic healing supports the whole human in trauma. Naturopathic Doctor Jamila Owens-Todd has dedicated her life to supporting those in their healing. Her career started out as a chemist and then she graduated from the four-year, naturopathic doctor degree program at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. As a naturopathic doctor, Jamila has pledged to educate and provide insight in regaining your agency in healing. Jamila served as the director of clinical education and now holds the position of executive director of Power4STL, a community of health, working to reduce the impact of trauma. At Power4STL, also home to the Bullet Related Injury Clinic (BRIC), we believe that trauma is the real drug, and we support any and every person in the spirit of radical generosity. This Platform will feature music by Beth Bombara. It’s not that it’s retro, really, but there is something of a different era about her music — it has an earnestness to it, an organic depth that feels natural and easy. The Columbia Tribune notes, “Her songs live in the same world as greats like Petty and Dylan; Gillian and Joni, and grow up like trees drawing nourishment from their roots. But she never, ever sounds like the ‘typical’ artist who claims these influences; Bombara to zig where someone else might zag, making harder or gentler turns, brushing up against jazz or taking rock toward its fulfillment.” Bombara spent years on the road in other bands before encouragement from peers led her to start writing and performing her own music. “I never set out to be a lead singer,” she admits. “I wasn’t comfortable being in the spotlight like that. I struggled with anxiety and talking into a microphone just froze me up.” Yet the songs were there. So Bombara slowly started performing her own material, watering the seeds that would grow into her own career. Her most recent album, It All Goes Up, spent seven weeks on the Americana Radio charts, garnering stellar reviews from fans and critics alike.