Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Sep 6, 2024 6:30-7:30pm
Location
Current Wellness
219 S East St
Details
Event Details:
September 6th @ 6:30PM —- Join us for the official book launch party for tasha hunter’s tell me where it hurts: poetry, meditations, and divinely-inspired love notes. There will be a short reading of select poems, Q &A , and time for attendees to meet the author and get their book signed. Copies of the book will be sold onsight. Whether you are curious about the book or a long-time fan of poetry and self-love, this event is for you.
Book Summary:
tell me where it hurts is a tender, revealing collection of poems, meditations, and love notes. tasha invites readers to join her on this trajectory of honoring all that is hidden, forgotten, and silenced. Relationships and love form a core theme, with poems examining the complexity of connections with family, friends, partners, Self, and the Divine. The poet delves into the nuances of intimacy, the desire for community, and the challenges of communicating the unspoken and often— misunderstood. Through vivid imagery and powerful language, the poet captures the weight of intergenerational trauma. Her verses resonate with authenticity, revealing the truth about her experiences with grief, mental illness, liberation-based healing. Ultimately, this collection captures the importance of healing authentically and shows others how to do the same.
Author Bio:
tasha hunter (she/her/we) is a Black, queer listener, healer, writer, teacher , and advocate. She is a liberation-centered mental health therapist who specializes in working with Black women, femmes, and LGBTQIA communities. She believes that healing happens most often when we are seen, heard, and understood by those who value our existence. tasha also believes that liberation isn’t possible without community and collective liberation. tasha is a Level 3, Certified Internal Family Systems therapist who approaches healing from a non-pathologizing, decolonized lens. She most often provides a safe container for individuals seeking help due to developmental and ancestral trauma, inner child wounding, sexual violence, racism, sexism, oppression, sexual identity/romantic relationship issues, and spiritual/religious deconstruction. tasha’s clinical practice also includes pre and post integration of psychedelic/ entheogenic medicine experiences, breathwork, somatic practices, spirituality, and ancestral wisdom. tasha is a Clinical Cohort leader for Naropa University’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certificate Program.
tasha is the author of the recently released, tell me where it hurts: poetry, meditations, and divinely-inspired love notes. As well as the memoir, What Children Remember. Her writing has been featured in the anthology She Lives Her Truth and Marla Taviano’s book, please cut up my poems. She is the host of the podcast, When We Speak. She lives in North Carolina and owns a mental health private practice.
