05/26/2026
Healer Spotlight: Deisy Gutierrez
Originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, Deisy Gutierrez grew up immersed in the ancestral medicine of her Zapotec community, learning from the women in her family. Deisy has completed advanced trainings in soul-based healing and Alphabiotics, and through her personal healing journey, she is now dedicated to supporting the well-being of others as a guide and healer within her community and beyond.
En sus palabras: “En ocasiones nos venden o nos ponen otras ideas de que la sanación está afuera, más sin embargo es dentro porque requerimos dar ese clavado hacia nosotros y … ¿de dónde vienen esas emociones? Porque el cuerpo, los órganos, no enferman de adentro hacia afuera, sino de afuera hacia adentro. Por lo que comes, por las emociones, ¿no? Se acumula todo eso en ciertos órganos del cuerpo.”
In her words: “Sometimes we are sold or given the idea that healing is outside of us, but really it comes from within, because we need to take that deep dive into ourselves and ask: Where do these emotions come from? Because the body, the organs, do not get sick from the inside out, but from the outside in. Because of what you eat, because of emotions, right? All that accumulates in certain organs of the body.”
As a partnership between Koreatown Storytelling Program and the Archive of Healing, the Koreatown Archive will facilitate access to the oral histories and knowledge of practitioners, like Deisy Gutierrez, for community members and researchers alike.
Photo courtesy of the Koreatown Storytelling Program.
