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This event will take place at iWash Laundry, 2027 45th Street, Galveston, TX.

This event is organized through Nia Cultural Center's Harambee! for Galveston's Youngest Citizens initiative. "Harambee" is the Swahilli word for "Let's All Pull Together". Funded by Episcopal Health Foundation, this effort invites our community to pull together and address the racial disparities in health and education outcomes experienced by Black children in Galveston by strengthening and improving local supports and resources available to families during the most critical time of their baby's brain development, the first 1000 days of life. We will have free baby books provided by SMART Family Literacy as well as diapers from the Angel Bottoms initiative by God's Kingdom & Restoration Ministries in partnership with Galveston Diaper Bank.

 

 

Channel Tabor HP, LMT, CHD
Holistic Practitioner/ Licensed Massage Therapist/Certified Holistic Doula Channel started on her path to becoming a Holistic Healing Practitioner in 2017 after rising from the ashes of her own “tower moment.” Channel had always yearned for children of her own, and when her first daughter came along in 2008, Channel experienced what it meant to feel a piece of her heart beating outside of her body. By 2015, Channel was the proud mother of three beautiful children – Lyric, Braylen, and Phoenix. When she became a single mother, her little family experienced hard times that would forever alter their course. Channel landed at Houston’s Star of Hope, a shelter for homeless families. Star of Hope offered a safe haven while Channel studied to become a Reiki Master through ALOP and CNA/Patient Care Technician at Lone Star College. She had always desired to help others while being a facilitator of healing and felt a career in the medical field may be a career path that would offer professional fulfillment as well as stability for her children. The experience of living in a shelter for seven months gifted Channel with valuable insights. She met many other women, each with their own stories and struggles. She saw first-hand the limitations that confront those in need, as well as the unexplainably limitless strength conjured by a mother’s love. Channel finally understood those infamous stories of mothers defying the laws of nature to save their children.

Channel completed her programs at Lone Star College but quickly learned that a career in the medical matrix did not resonate with her spirit. She was thrust into the business of medicine, working long hours with limited impact on her patients’ true well-being. Channel knew her heart was not in a career that valued profits over people. But it was people in need that called to her - specifically mothers and children - wherever she went. Channel was a healer, and she finally knew that much. She wanted to embody the change she wished to see in the world, and when she discovered the holistic sphere, she found her life’s purpose.

Channel dove headfirst into holistic healing studies over the next four years. Against all odds, she hurdled limitations, discovered financial independence, and earned a Massage Therapist License, Reiki Master Certification, and two Doula Certifications. She knew she could draw from each healing modality to best position herself in the service of consciously aware clients.

Channel credits single motherhood with gifting her the strength to pull her family out of a seemingly hopeless situation. It was for her children that Channel began to carve her own inspiring path forward. Allowing life to be her guide, Channel trusted that all things positive and negative were unfolding as part of a greater plan. Living at the Star of Hope softened Channel’s heart and served as a springboard for finding her true purpose in life – to work as a Holistic Practitioner, Doula, and LMT in the service of women, children and others in need.