She moved to Philadelphia on her own, forged ahead as a Black woman in a predominantly white and male space. Harper made a choice: keep going, keep healing. With the ending of their relationship and her childhood trauma still present in the periphery, Dr. Upon graduation, she and her husband planned to move to Philadelphia, but two months before their scheduled departure, Harper’s husband informed her that he was unhappy in their marriage. Harper attended and graduated from Harvard University - where she met her husband - before eventually settling in the South Bronx so Harper could complete her emergency medicine residency at Mercy Hospital. In that moment, Harper can see herself as an emergency room physician.Īnd so she set out on her journey to heal. Years later, when Harper’s father injures her brother during a violent episode, a teenage Harper drives her brother to the ER, where she observes a preview of her future: disparate patients with disparate ailments receiving help from healers. The book opens with a 7-year-old Harper basking in a tranquil moment with her My Little Pony figurines - though readers quickly learn that peace wasn’t common in Harper’s childhood, as she grew up in an abusive household. Just take the first chapter of her first memoir, The Beauty in Breaking. Michele Harper grew up in Washington, DC, knowing from a fairly young age that healing would be in her future.
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