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R.G. Shore founded Northwest Wisdom, a nonprofit center for spirituality and healing in the Pacific Northwest, with one goal in mind: to help marginalized people heal their wounds, particularly around racial and spiritual trauma. That work began with healing his own.
Born in India and adopted as an infant by a white couple in Oregon, Shore’s struggle with identity and racial trauma began long before he spent 29 months in prison.
“My wounds were unchecked and unaddressed,” he says. “If you don’t transform your pain, you just transmute it. I imagine that’s what I was doing without knowing it. I was projecting whatever unconscious…