Ashira Darwish, who began her career as a journalist in Palestine and then worked for 15 years as TV and Radio journalist and researcher for the BBC, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project in Palestine, which uses the Ashira Active Meditation approach that she pioneered to help people suffering from continuous trauma. Her personal journey of healing from full body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012 has given her a deep insight into the process of recovery, allowing her to offer a highly specialized and culturally sensitive approach to trauma healing.