Rossa Socco and her daughter Tala make offerings of song to Iemanja at the ocean each night. She serves tea to her patients during intakes to honor their often unpaid or unacknowledged labor. She almost died and witnessed the invisible epidemic of organizers dying or suffering silently from chronic illness. She is a teacher, herbalist, doctoral student in Chinese Medicine, and cultural practitioner specializing in depleted mothers/ women + GNC folk/ organizers, pediatrics and PTSD.

 Her teachers and elders prohibit self-description as a “healer”. She is the inheritor of her grandmother’s medicine + facilitates ceremony, acupuncture, reiki, pediatric massage + herbalism to support people through processes including healing ancestral trauma, death/dying and grief work, transitions + transformation, physical manifestations of pain and illness, and more.

She likes to cook ancestral medicine as decolonized food therapy, and has a passion for: historical accuracy, burnout prevention, nourishing the well-within, + how to stay balanced in an unbalanced world.

As a teacher and trainer, She brings 17 years of experience in life trajectory shifts for students, youth leaders, large group facilitation, curriculum writing, systems change, teaching advanced political education + international feminist activism. She has trained over 20,000 youth and adults nationally + internationally.

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Rossa Socco, Soul Mechanic