With humor, gravity, and hard-won insight, Virginia Grise delivers the dazzling but bittersweet dispatches of a journey through the rocky landscapes of healthcare and self-care--the folly and wisdom it takes to arrive at the body's best spiritual medicine. -- Rigoberto González, author of Unpeopled Eden

Virginia breaks the heart open with the poetic force of this work. Ceremoniously / transgressively she calls out the Truth--the Ancestors know that we are all in need of healing, so they've prayed all that we need inside of our blood and bones. This book is the topography of that. -- Sharon Bridgforth, performing artist and author of love conjure/blues

In Your Healing Is Killing Me, Virginia Grise weaves the fabric of her life as an artist with threads from Chairman Mao's 4 Minute Physical Fitness Plan, traditional healing rituals, ancient recipes for the heart and skin, and memories emerging from past suppression--both personal and colonial. This Texicana priestess-poet heals herself and us with these alchemical deconstructions of the pain that comes from picking at the scars of human survival. One remedy: read this book. Just remember to breathe while you do so. -- Migdalia Cruz, author of El Grito del Bronx & Other Plays