Our Country from 공 空 by Melanie Eden
A lay Buddhist in the Thai Forest tradition doing her best to reflect/share dhamma in a accessible way, ‘transforming suffering into the divine’. Mel is a survivor of child abuse and sprout from a family with ‘mad’ folk. Having a ‘spiritual emergency/emergence’ in her early 20s. She situates herself within the psychiatric survivor movement. Creating communities and pedagogies of care.