Meet Linda!
Linda reconnects Haitian and Black communities with their intergenerational wisdom to promote intergenerational healing through mindfulness programming, meditation sessions, journaling workshops, flower essence therapy, wellness consulting, and speaking engagements.
Linda is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a certificate in Mental Health Policy, Economics, and Services at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds an undergraduate degree from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she designed a concentration called “Self-Care, Mindfulness, and Ancestral Healing for Haiti’s Future.” To address the impact of intergenerational trauma within the Haitian diaspora, she used Haitian history, Black Feminist thought, and the epistemology of Haitian Vodou as tools of ancestral wisdom to promote intergenerational healing.
About Linda Duverné
“My college friend first introduced me to flower essences in college. Years later, when I moved out of my childhood home and in need of some emotional support, flower essences came back to me. I researched and started taking flower essences, deepening my heart work and enhancing my well-being.”
What is alive in your practice right now?
Creating formulas for my business and people sharing their experience has been exciting for me. My approach is aligned with my mission statement, to reconnect Black and Haitian people with their intergenerational wisdom to promote intergenerational healing. Haitian Vodou guides my approach to flower essence therapy, offering me insights, direction, and a deeper connection with nature.
I’m currently reading No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz and Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan.
What flower essence has impacted you the most?
Pomegranate flower essence served as an instrumental aid before and after my endometriosis procedure. Some insights that came to me through the Pomegranate flower essence were: I realized I had subconsciously limited my chances for success for the procedure by internalizing negative experiences Black women face in medical settings, especially with gynecological care; I restructured unhelpful thoughts around infertility worries; I became more receptive to healing and receiving nurturing support from women in my community; I connected deeply with my sensual self and it reminded me how alive I feel in my body; and my creativity was at an all time high.
