Mission & Vision
The Love Practice provides healing services for marginalized people to guide individuals and communities toward fuller lives and a more just world. We envision a restored and transformed world where all people have the resources and power to live with dignity, equity, and joy.
"The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom."
bell hooks
Guiding Ethics
The Love Practice is proudly pro-Black, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and equity-centered. We live, learn, and heal in community with BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and otherwise marginalized people. Here, we center the marginalized, prioritize our voices, and validate lived experiences.
“The longer I live the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each others light"
James Baldwin
What Does Healing Mean?
Our definition of healing is in conversation with the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, which sees healing as work that must address both individual and collective trauma. True healing is responsive to the systemic inequalities that produce, protect, and reinforce trauma.
Therefore, our healing work is justice work; our justice work is healing work.