Healing by Choice! (HbC!) is a circle of BIPOC women and gender non-conforming health and healing practitioners based in Detroit, MI. As a collective, we gather together a multitude of sacred lineages and healing modalities to co-create healing spaces for communities we live in and are connected to. We believe that each person is an expert of their own experience, body and needs, and that healing is an interrelated process that addresses the roots of trauma and injustice for individual and collective transformation. We seek to find the harmony between the joys and griefs of this life, together, and imagine new conceptions of healing through communal care systems.

How We Do It

Through a holistic healing justice approach, we center our work in Detroit, MI and support  friends nationally with developing tools for navigating emotional, spiritual, and physical traumas created by the conditions of systemic oppression. Our practitioners offer diverse healing skill sets (reiki, massage, tarot, yoga, tai chi, restorative justice, herbalism, etc.) that we share to promote self-sustaining care practices for groups. We integrate these skills into no-cost community offerings for grassroot groups through gift economics to increase access to wellness spaces for marginalized groups.

As the world rapidly changes with a heightened need for healing in response to normalized instances of harm and violence, HbC! is deepening in how we can show up for ourselves and our communities.