I help clinicians, healers, and coaches incorporate decolonized and liberatory values in their practices so that you can have a practice and/or service-based business that is truly affirming and welcoming to clients who hold marginalized identities.
Intergenerational strength
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Reader, This has been the topic this week in my clinical practice with other clinicians... ...Maybe this week (especially if you are in the US) you:
I hear you and I see you. I have felt all of the above as well…
Then I recalled the other side of that coin (of how you felt this week) is intergenerational strength.
Meaning: you (or your clients) may not have been in this exact situation before, but you and generations prior have been met with challenges, oppression, attempts at erasing you and your identities. And yet, generations prior (I mean our blood and non-blood-related ancestors of minoritized identities) resisted. Side comment: My former corner of the world and adjacent areas went through this in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. We got terrorism, dictatorships, coups, totalitarian governments that took advantage of existing problems and imposed change at the speed of light so that we could not keep up the pace and panic instead. It was “la doctrina del shock”—the shock doctrine.
And we survived.
And what is happening in my current corner of the world has a very similar (same?) flavour to la doctrina del shock.
And we (marginalized communities and allies) will survive.
So please remind your clients —and yourself— of the inherited and acquired resilience and power from those who came before you, even when the world tried to take it away. What intergenerational strengths have sustained you? What practices help you remember them? Hit reply and let me know! In community & in strength, Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice PS. You can read previous Liberatory Letters here. Let's connect! |
Hi! I'm Silvana.
I help clinicians, healers, and coaches incorporate decolonized and liberatory values in their practices so that you can have a practice and/or service-based business that is truly affirming and welcoming to clients who hold marginalized identities.
Reader, Keeping it short and sweet and honouring my current bandwidth (because i want to support my clients and myself as we navigate oppression) From educators I have learned from and would learn again and again: Akilah Riley Richardson is offering a free webinar entitled “Becoming the B.I.O.M.E - The Therapeutic Presence for Marginalized People.” You can register here. Lily Zheng tells you What Comes After DEI here and the IG tldr version here. From educators I don’t know yet: Dr. Pavna...
Reader, You are receiving this (pre-scheduled) email while I transition back from a break. So it doesn’t address or reflect on anything that might be happening in the world at the moment. (And honestly, I’m really hoping nothing major is happening… because we’ve all had plenty happen already.) These are some of the people I started following this year. They’re far from being your traditional therapy resource. None of them are therapists (in the Western sense), but they are IMHO amazing...
Reader, You are receiving this (pre-scheduled) email while I transition back from a break. So it doesn’t address or reflect on anything that might be happening in the world at the moment. (And honestly, I’m really hoping nothing major is happening… because we’ve all had plenty happen already.) Short and sweet: Here are a couple of articles I was glad to come across last year... This is one that made me think the most: Why We Should Stop Saying “Underrepresented” by N. Chloé Nwangwu Why?...