(Delia Johnson | Cronkite News) Nicolle Gonzales performs a smudging ceremony at doula training in Window Rock, Arizona, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Smudging is the process of cleansing the body by burning herbs and plants in a shell and fanning the smoke around a person as a smoke bath. Gonzales is a nurse midwife and the founder and executive director of Changing Woman Initiative in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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