The Love More Lexicon

Journeyer

Anyone walking the road of healing and transformation. The word leaves room for movement: a person arriving in pain has a life extending beyond the pain.

Land of WizOz

An original Love More universe for simulation, reflection and transformation. It does not include the original cast or storyline of Oz.

Yellow Brick Road

The path through the seven HEAL-IDS chambers. The order is intentional, but transformation is often circular, seasonal, and layered.

Home B.A.S.E.Brave, Affirming, Secure Environment

The cocoon where transformation can happen safely.

Brave Space

A space where people can be honest and take emotional risks, supported rather than judged.

HEALHealing Energy, Affirmations, and Love

The heartbeat of the Love More approach.

HEAL-IDSHealing · Energy · Affirmations · Love · Identity · Dreams · Success

The seven chambers of the Yellow Brick Road.

T.Li.C.H.L.Transformative Life Coaches and Healing Leaders · say “ti-lic-kl”

The Love More Movement's certification: a calling, a lifestyle and a promise to be a Cycle Breaker.

Healing Leader

Healing leadership is expressed whenever a person uses presence, relationship, accountability, cultural humility and Love More practices to create conditions in which people can breathe, tell the truth, reclaim their dignity and imagine a future beyond injury. No formal title required.

Cycle BreakerTurning the Station · Changing the Channel

A survivor who commits to breaking cycles of trauma in their life, family and community.

People are the medicine

“People are the medicine, not the patients.”

Healing Scale

A way of taking measure along the road. Numbers can point to the story, but must never replace it.

Butterfly consciousness

The question of emergence: what form is ready to emerge?

Phoenix consciousness

The question of renewal: what can rise from what has been burned?

Graduation

Emergence from the cocoon into a new form.

SankofaAkan: “go back and get it”

Reaching back to reclaim wisdom from the past in order to move forward.

Love More

The movement and the practice of healing from past trauma through the vibration of Love.

F.E.V.E.R.S.Frequency of Loving More · Energy of Joy · Vibration of Hope · Elevation of Peace · Reflection of Divine Purpose · Scope of Forgiveness

The blend Cycle Breakers align with: a new cultural lifestyle and the recipe for shedding unwanted emotional weight.

Healing Station

A Brave Space, in the community, mobile or virtual, where survivors become Cycle Breakers, led by Transformative Life Coaches and Healing Leaders.

Leaps of Faith

The transformative steps Cycle Breakers take to align with the F.E.V.E.R.S.

Healing Huddles

Listening sessions and interviews with key stakeholders that keep our work current.

S.O.U.L.Seniors Offering Unconditional Love

Our elders, who are B.LISS and W.I.L.L. impact communities.

B.LISSBucket List Inspired Senior Stars

What our S.O.U.L. seniors are.

W.I.L.L.Wisdom, Inspiration, Love & Leadership

What our S.O.U.L. offer communities.

The Goddess in MeG.I.M.

A Brave Space for girls on the journey to emotional healing, self-love and Black Girl Magic.

Be The Butterfly

Our youth healing, leadership and emotional mastery initiative. Honoring where you started without staying there.

OverGround FreeWay

Rites of passage of introspection, genealogy and history to break the mental chains. Where the Underground Railroad was a passage to physical freedom, the OverGround FreeWay is a passage to mental liberation, and it must be visible.

Mental Chains

The fears, beliefs and injuries that limit a person's sense of what is possible, even after outward circumstances have changed.

Two Wings

Love and history. Dr. Bruce's flight needed both the love of Feldon Trail and the inheritance of Nineteenth and Quincy. No one flies with one wing.

Finding My Eagle

From the African teaching story of the eagle raised among chickens: recognizing a capacity that has gone unnamed. Identity changes responsibility.

Liberation Consciousness

Understanding freedom broadly enough to include the emotional and spiritual life, where Love and Joy can be experienced.

SiriusThe North Star of this journey

The brightness of Love and Joy by which Dr. Bruce orients his life.

Social-Eyeez

Love More's creative media division, with arts, video, podcast, recording studio and grassroots radio. You'll know the brand by the Eyeez on the end.

Wearable Love

The Love More brand: wearing love while bringing a culture of love, light, joy, hope, peace, purpose, resilience, liberation and transformation back to the community, and making love cool while doing it.

LEXLived Experience

DC's Lived Experience Advisory Council: people turning lived experience into leadership, advocacy, outreach and systems change. Lived experience is expertise.

First Flight

The first tier of LEX leaders to move from participation to ownership. It honors sequence and responsibility, not hierarchy: the First Flight widens the path for the next wave.

Nightmare-to-Dream JourneyThe Nightmare · The Awakening · The Cocoon · The First Flight · The Dream

The five movements of the LEX journey from survival to thriving.

Dream Lab

Where every person and organization names the part they will play in the next chapter.

Butterfly MondaysEvery Monday · 6–8 pm ET

Our weekly Virtual Healing Station.

Community's Scale for Healing PossibilitiesCSHP

The first scale built to measure healing from community violence, defined by those most impacted. Four dimensions: getting to the core, reclaiming possibilities and hope, faith in healing, and trusting community in healing. The Love More Movement is a founding partner.

P.R.A.Y. for F.L.O.W.Paul Robeson Academy for Youth · Future Leaders of the World

Seven pillars nurturing the whole young person: mind, body, spirit, culture and creativity.

P.L.A.A.Y.Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth

Woven through Be The Butterfly: anger is information, not a verdict.

T.Li.C.H.Y.L.Transformative Life Coaches & Healing Youth Leaders

Youth certification through the Seven Chambers: 30 instructional and 20 applied hours.

Chrysalis

Often mistakenly called a cocoon. The stage where old systems break down and new ones form: healing spaces, Brave Spaces, the courage to pause.

The Healer's StoneThe TLiCHL logo

Ten symbols in one emblem: our search for the sacred portal and wormhole for healing.

C.L.C.B.E.Calculate · Locate · Communicate · Breathe · Exhale · Reassess

A mindfulness strategy to de-escalate stress in real time.

Triggers to Joy

Although triggers to trauma are covered, the TLiCHL cocoon emphasizes identifying what sparks joy.

Shamuized

A state of being brainwashed out of knowledge of self.

HarambeSwahili

Working together, pulling together, helping each other, caring and sharing.

Cocoon

The Brave Space created to hold space for transformation.

Healing-and-transformation-informed

Values the trauma-informed lens but refuses to stop at the wound. We still ask “What happened?” We also ask “What gifts remained alive? What future is now possible?”

No shade on survival

Survival is not a failure, but evidence that something within us kept reaching for life.

TLiCHL Pause

The pause before reacting: Do I have consent? Am I within my role? Am I listening, or trying to rescue?

Healing efficacy

The Journeyer's developing belief that healing is possible and that they can meaningfully participate in the process.

WizzoThe Architect of Illusion

A shadow figure of WizOz: the temptation to seek external answers to internal work.

Next Brick

Each brick on the Yellow Brick Road can represent a decision: telling the truth, asking for help, resting, setting a boundary, reclaiming a gift or believing again.

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