Your Healing Nature
Hosted by Brenda Beza, Your Healing Nature centers Black Indigenous People of Color who are reclaiming the outdoors to heal individual and/or collective trauma. Guest storytellers include sponsored athletes, conservationists, outdoor educators, founders of for- and non-profits, urban farmers, creatives and so much more. These innovative, heart-centered leaders redefine the outdoors, the outside, in a way that diverges from what mainstream American culture has traditionally thought of as the “great outdoors.”
Through their root stories, you will begin to hear varying perspectives on our need to redefine the outdoors in a way that is inclusive of our multiple intersecting identities and the way we experience the outdoors via our neighborhoods and/or access to public lands.
Brenda’s promise to you?
You will leave with seeds of inspiration and tools that guide YOU back to Your Healing Nature.
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Brenda Beza
Pronouns: She/her/hers/ella
Brenda currently resides in Riverside, California, unceded ancestral land of the Tongva, Payómkawichum, Cahuilla, and Kizh peoples. Professionally, she works as project director of a federal college access and retention grant that serves students from historically oppressed communities. Additionally, she teaches university-level courses in counseling and diversity.
As a daughter of Central American immigrants, Brenda was raised to value community and service to others. At 6-years-old, Brenda’s mother exposed her to curanderas (healers who use folk remedies) in Tijuana, Baja California. These experiences sparked her curiosity and lifelong spiritual journey. Currently, she is studying intergenerational trauma and somatic storytelling. Nature has been, and continues to be, central to her spiritual sustainability practice. Brenda views storytelling via podcasting as a continuation of the oral traditions practiced by her Maya ancestors.
On weekends, Brenda can be found in the mountains (hiking/backpacking) or ocean (paddle boarding) as she co-creates stories alongside Mother Earth.