Tell It Like It Is: Decolonizing Recovery

Unfolding Faith: Sermons from Foothills Unitarian

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We crave growth and transformation – and yet, we will go to great lengths to avoid actual change. We want to know one another more deeply – but when someone else’s truth challenges our worldview, our first move is often to start building a defense of our own position.

Join Rev. Elaine in leading with curiosity and holding your certainties a little more softly as as Lucrecia Medrano, local leader and co-founder of the harm reduction and recovery groups at the Yarrow Collective, offers us the gift of her truth – a story of recovery from addiction, of liberation and de-colonizing recovery.

When Lucrecia found that a Western model of recovery also snuffed out the spark in her heart, she kept following her inner wisdom — even when it diverged from the advice of the experts. Lucrecia found healing and liberation on a path that defied conventional norms, yet made all the difference.

After taking in her story, Lucrecia joins Rev. Elaine for a time of conversation and reflection.

*Lucrecia Medrano (she/her), a proud first-generation Latinx woman, a wife, and mother of three, is a liberatory harm reductionist rooted in culturally sacred practices and psychedelic medicine. Lucrecia creates transformative spaces for drug users, people of color, those in recovery and those seeking liberation. She co-founded all harm reduction groups and recovery groups at Yarrow Collective, and is a certified Peer Support Specialist devoted to decolonized healing and collective freedom.*

June 1, 2025

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