Reader,

Last year I talked to you about Healing through Trauma-Informed and Liberatory Relationships. I encouraged you to see healing as resistance, not as your efficiency as a therapist or healer. And I’ve been sitting with this reminder: healing is not about how efficient or productive I am as a therapist or healer.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of measuring your worth by how quickly you help clients “get better” or how many people you serve. But that mindset is rooted in the very systems we’re trying to dismantle—systems that value output over presence, speed over depth, and doing over being.

Especially nowadays, when clients may be bringing even more emotional knots that take time and care to gently untangle, it’s tempting to feel the pressure to do more, fix faster, enroll in another training, or hold everything. But healing, especially within a decolonial and liberatory framework, is not linear, quick, or easily measured. It is relational. It is layered. It is often slow, sacred, and messy.

When we center rest, connection, ancestral knowledge, and collective care, we’re actively resisting a system that says we have to hustle, produce, consume, and fix.

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So here’s a gentle reminder for you:

You are not a machine. Your value is not in your output. And your healing—just like your clients’—is a form of resistance.

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And here's your decolonial prompt to reflect on this week:

✨💫 What would it look like to measure your impact not by outcomes, but by presence? Not by productivity, but by connection?

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Here’s to less fixing and more resisting 🌿

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In solidarity,

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Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice​

PS. You can read previous Liberatory Letters here.

PPS. Join me! ⬇️

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⬆️ Let's connect!