Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss
#healingjustice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #healingjustice, aggregated by home.social.
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That’s what we’re exploring inside the Profit Without Oppression (PWO) Community, a space to name the harm, reclaim our worth, and co-create new ways of being rooted in care, dignity, and truth. You don’t have to navigate this grief alone.
Because healing is personal, but it’s also political. And it’s always more powerful in community.
Join us: Link in bio
#CollectiveGrief #HealingJustice #ProfitWithoutOppression #CommunityCare #LiberationWork #RestAsResistance #PWOCommunity #AntiOppression
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This is the paradox of truth-telling in community building and in defining/establishing cultural norms: it’s liberating, but it’s not always comfortable. And yet, once you see the full picture, you can’t, and shouldn’t, look away.
#Leadership #LiberatoryEducation #Mentorship #TruthTelling #SystemicChange #ProfitWithoutOppression #TraumaInformed #HealingJustice #EquityInAction #UnlearningToRebuild
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@theneurotrust crucial conversation indeed!
Just recently listened to Cara Page on #healingjustice... Some notes and emerging thoughts:- Not all healers are political but I bet true healing is.
- Asuming one self a healer is different to finding pieces of collective health within me
- collective memory and mediation by other languages confirms once and again to be strategic, so the individual painful narratives turn into deep treasure searching and other metaphores...
- when certain metaphores build #CollectiveCare?
- How to walk together thru the broken twigs of deep shared losses? How to build bridges collaborativelly for not falling into power unballances?
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$20,000 to #BlackEmotionalandMentalHealth #Collective (#BEAM) to sponsor up to 25 #scholarships for Black #MentalHealth and #HealingJustice #PeerSupport #Training for #trans and #genderexpansive #youth.
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chilean-canadian woman seek aid to complete the research for her disseration involving Mapuche people. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mutual-aid-to-complete-doctorate?utm_medium=email&utm_source=lifecycle&fbclid=IwAR1zce64gijQERkAwmMTSv1Sodi1tOjTVIUDTNSbOcc1yisCVGOf6Mhrbxg#/
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@markhenick
As a mental health professional, this is in my wheelhouse. I discovered Vikram Patel, Sangath, and Friendship Benches around the same time as I was training for my Peer Specialist career. In 2017, I had a option to intern with the NYC Thrive 'friendship benches' but other people in my class got it. The US is part of the great colonizers for Western Bio-medical psychiatry. The world doesn't need more colonization. I think the community MH model is correct for many reasons. The article mentions the Community MH act on 1963 and sort of leaves out the fact that it never got funding for the community mental health part. This issue is the same today. No one wants to invest in MH. Or they only want to invest in the neoliberal part of they think of as cost-effective. And the carceral part. And that is racist. No one talks about how the current paradigms is racist or eugenicist. And not even effective. The whole focus in the article on psychiatry is a mistake but that's to be expected because of the West's influence. Or at least they should call it biopsyciatry because before pills, it was more about phenomenology. What they really meant to say is that they want to 'fix' people's 'brain diseases' by getting highly paid people to give them pills. It would benefit the global supply chain of Big Pharma. But they neglect to say how fracking expensive that would be. And that not even the West is going to shell out for that, let alone foisting it on the global south who is dirt poor. What is called 'Mental health" is more than brains. People deal with distress because of environmental factors (ACE, systems of oppression, lack of affordable housing, food, medical care). That is 'mental health care'. Or consider Johan Hari's "Anti-depressent Cow" story-- a poor man had life difficulties and became depressed and stopped farming. Someone gave him a cow to continue farming and he was no longer depressed.
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"The term #HealingJustice refers to an evolving political framework shaped by economic, racial, and disability justice that seeks to transform, intervene and respond to generational trauma and violence in our movements, communities and lives; and to regenerate our traditions of liberatory and resiliency practices that have been lost or stolen.
Healing Justice recognizes the role of collective trauma (such as the shared experience of slavery or genocide or ableism) and historical trauma (the holding and passing down of collective trauma from one generation to the next) as causing or influencing community survival practices and endemic community health issues, and seeks to lift up these experiences for the possibility of resilience and transformation.
Healing Justice also recognizes the role of individual and relational trauma and its impact on collective process."
Additional documentation exploring the theory,
practice, and history in more depth will be found at
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What opportunities can be gained from building a community of practice centered around #HealingJustice within the #fediverse?
What kinds of risks should we be aware of when #CommunityOrganizing in a virtual environment like Mastodon?
What kind of resources will we need to create a safe container for folks engaging in any #SocialJustice organizing in the #fediverse?
For context, here is an excerpt from #AlliedMedia describing what we'd like to create here
What is a #HealingJustice Practice Space?
"A Healing Justice Practice Space (HJPS) is an all-gender, allbodied, inclusive and accessible space for practicing and receiving healing that is built in partnership with social justice movement work and sites of political action.
These spaces typically offer a wide variety of health and healing services, including (but not limited to) first aid, counseling and crisis support, mediation services, massage therapy, acupuncture, energy work, herbal therapy, divination, art therapy, nutritional counseling, and yoga.
Sometimes they are aligned with public healthcare systems and sometimes they are independent.
Sometimes they include opportunities for building analysis and sharing political education, sometimes they focus solely on individual and collective healing."
https://alliedmedia.org/resources/healing-justice-principles-guidelines
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@theneurotrust
as someone from the disability and mad movement, I have come to understand the difference between #DisabilityRights and #DisabilityJustice. the former is about legal battles to force our humanity into the public space and demand some basic recognition. But the ADA is toothless as written, so we need lawyers to get anything material to happen (curb cuts, busses with wheelchair lifts, extended time on tests). The latter is holistic. It's about creating a society where we are seen as equals and our presence is expected. #HealingJustice is a very complex topic. It has so many moving parts. It's healing me, it's healing you, its about creating community, accountability, rupture, and reconciliation. It requires people to facilitate safer healing spaces. It requires emotional labor to recognize oppression in many guises. -
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My group (NYC icarus project) considers all modalities including those under #healingjustice , including radical, non-patholgizing, psychedelic, somatic, spiritual, environmental, etc. -
Would something like this work to help us get started?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VxIN0YWwPKY938oWpR3nZthEe9DOB2yFUiK3fMxKzOk/edit?usp=sharingAlso, my capacity will be a bit limited once the next semester starts, so I've reached out to #AlliedMedia and #CaraPage to see if they can recommend someone with the capacity to moderate and/or coordinate virtual programming.
I agree that its important to include many more voices around this topic and it would be nice to work with folks who have experience doing virtual #CommunityOrganizing around #HealingJustice
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@schock @meoutloud That's right! I forgot the #AlliedMediaConference had a #HealingJustice track.
I look forward to digging into the material you've shared.
Thanks for checking in
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@meoutloud @theneurotrust hello! Ty for tagging me :) #AlliedMedia started more than 20 years ago f2f and had grown intentionally and organically ever since. #HealingJustice has had growing presence there, including network gatherings, workshops, plenaries, and whole tracks! A few resource links:
* organizing hj spaces: https://alliedmedia.org/resources/healing-justice-principles-guidelines
* Healing Justice resources https://alliedmedia.org/resources/healing-by-choice-additional-resources
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Will work on creating a shared doc in the next day or so.
I'm wondering whether it would be helpful to reach out to @schock
I'm wondering whether they can provide any insights about how the #DesignJustice network worked together to structure, #coalition-build and facilitate their movement at the #AlliedMediaConference
I might also reach out to #CaraPage who has an organization on IG to get a sense of what work and conversations already exists around the topic of #HealingJustice
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@meoutloud In answer to your question about what it means to practice #HealingJustice in our lives.
I think both individually and collectively we have to build the skillset of #resourcing and building a safe, healthy container where we can hold space to build our #healingintelligence so that we can attend to our #attunementwounds and respond in a way that makes us feel seen and heard
I'm know I'm going to have to provide definitions of the terms that I hash-tagged, but I look forward to discussing the topic further
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@meoutloud These are all important questions. My understanding of the concept of #HealingJustice came from the work of #CaraPage
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@theneurotrust my first question would be how are we all thinking about #HealingJustice? What does it mean in practice in our lives? For us individually and collectively, in a space we don't physically inhabit. I'd like to hear what others think about it.
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@meoutloud I just realized we already talked a little about your book and the lineage of authors that influenced it.
Perhaps a better question (and you don't have to be the one to answer this) is how do we approach building an authentic #HealingJustice community within the #Fediverse?
Are there strategies from your own work you've found particularly helpful?
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@meoutloud awesome. I would love to build more community around the topic of #HealingJustice
Are there any authors, podcasts, or other resources you've found helpful on the topic?
If so I'd love to hear what you found compelling or useful.
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@meoutloud that's awesome. I wasn't familiar with Dr. Nichols but his work definitely sounds in alignment with #abolition and other justice-aligned values.
I'm a huge fan of #BellHooks & #Freire and adore the work of #AdrienneMareeBrown
#ResmaaMenakem's work is so provocative. I've only read about half of #MyGrandmothersHands (Mostly because i needed time to process) but I really appreciate his candor and the way he addresses how the trauma of oppression gets stored in the body.
His book was the reason I started seeking more information about #somatics and the work #healingjustice practitioners in #movement spaces
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Reading a paper on #HealingJustice with a colleague where they used meditation and yoga in participant workshops focused on traumatic topics. We were wondering whether this would be excluding to some people.
What do you think? Would you enjoy having guided meditation or yoga after a difficult group discussion, or is that just weird?
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Recently reading about some #TraumaResponsive and #HealingJustice approaches, and thinking about researchers as #healers. Healing can be an unintentional outcome of work, but how (and should) it be intentional? Obviously most researchers aren't trained healthcare professionals, but can we be healers in a more general way?
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Any folks interested in discussing #healingjustice and healing #modalities like #somatics #polyvagaltheory #ifs etc?
Haven't read #BesselVanDerKolk's #TheBodyKeepstheScore but I've read about half of #ResmaaMenakem's book #MyGrandmothersHands and taken a somatics course.
Would love to be in a community of practice with other folks who find this information useful
