How Traditional Medicine ACTUALLY Heals Communities!
🌀 Before we were colonized, we healed in circles—not in silos.
Community-centered healing practices have always been at the heart of traditional medicine systems across Africa, the Caribbean, and Indigenous America. Global health studies show that being part of a culturally rooted healing group can improve mental health outcomes by up to 63%.
In this powerful and personal video, Dr. Erica Steele shares how ancestral trauma, forced integration, colonial conditioning, and racialized violence still impact the health and nervous systems of Black and Afroindigenous people today. She also introduces Pure Black, a free healing community rooted in reclamation, ancestral wisdom, and sacred restoration.
📚 What You’ll Learn:
✅ What “forced integration” is and how it affects our nervous systems
✅ How colonization disconnected us from group-based healing
✅ The danger of healing in isolation and why we need safe spaces to grieve, grow, and rise
✅ Why many Black healers and practitioners are retraumatized in predominantly white healing spaces
✅ How Pure Black is creating sacred space to return to communal healing, ancestral wisdom, and collective care
✅ Why ancestral medicine isn’t just therapeutic—it’s revolutionary
✅ How to join and contribute to our Afroindigenous Wellness Community: Pure Black
💡 Discover actionable health tips and holistic practices to improve your well-being. In this video, Dr. Erica Steele shares insights on community healing. Learn how to achieve balance and live a thriving, healthy life naturally.
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📚 Chapters & Time Stamps
00:00 – Healing in Circles: Traditional Medicine Before Colonization
00:33 – Welcome to Pure Black & Week 10 of Intro to Holistic Medicine
01:06 – Why I Started the Afroindigenous Wellness Community
01:41 – What Is Forced Integration? (Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome)
02:13 – How Racism & Power Dynamics Show Up in Healing Spaces
02:50 – Colonial Conditioning: Compete, Comply, or Be Punished
03:20 – Why We Were Taught to Hide Our Pain
03:51 – Growing Up With Ceremonial Healing: My Mother’s Example
04:23 – Collective Healing Is Revolutionary
04:55 – What’s Coming for Pure Black & Our Ancestral Healing Work
05:27 – Are You a Generational Curse Breaker? Let Me Know Below
🔗 Resources & Next Steps
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✅ About Dr. Erica Steele DNM BCND CFMP ND MPH MBA
Hello! My name is Dr. Erica Steele, a board-certified naturopathic doctor with over 20 years of professional experience in natural healthcare. I am passionate about teaching holistic living and combining scientific innovation with age-old wisdom. My goal is to guide individuals toward sustainable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and teach the world true Afroindigenous holistic medicine.
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