I help therapists, healers, and space-holders bring decolonial and liberatory values into their work—so you’re not just saying you’re aligned… you’re actually practicing it. ⬆️ More integrity, more connection, more liberation. ⬇️ Less burnout, less performative wokeness, less colonial residue. If you want a practice where marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and honored—and you want to feel more grounded and intentional in your work—subscribe and join a growing community of practitioners doing this work differently. You practice can be liberatory-- let's get you there!
reimagining self-care
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Reader, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we define self-care in session, what we ask our clients to do—and how much of that definition not only holds a lot of privilege, but was shaped in times that felt more predictable, more containable, more… survivable. But what happens when the world doesn’t feel survivable in the same way? In a recent conversation, I found myself naming what so many of us feel: I’m trying to support clients through trauma while living in it myself. It’s a level of overwhelm that makes old self-care practices feel like they barely scratch the surface. So I asked a new question: What does self-care look like now? Not the version we were taught in grad school or the one you see curated for Instagram. But the kind that meets us in the collapse of right now. So, in other words, what does decolonial self-care look like? Here’s what I came up with:
Self-care is communal. Even if we call it SELF-care, it’s understood that the community is part of the self, and the self is part of the community. When I tend to myself, I’m also tending to the people I love, serve, and struggle alongside—and vice versa. When I care for myself, I’m fortifying our shared resistance—and when we care for one another, we’re practicing liberation. 🌱 Reflection for you: What Does Self-Care Mean Now?
Let this be a place of gentle reimagining. 🔥 Share your reflections with me, I want to know what's happening in your world! Here’s to more communal care and resistance 🌻 In community, Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice PS. You can read previous Liberatory Letters here. ⬆️ Let's connect! |
Liberatory Letters
I help therapists, healers, and space-holders bring decolonial and liberatory values into their work—so you’re not just saying you’re aligned… you’re actually practicing it. ⬆️ More integrity, more connection, more liberation. ⬇️ Less burnout, less performative wokeness, less colonial residue. If you want a practice where marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and honored—and you want to feel more grounded and intentional in your work—subscribe and join a growing community of practitioners doing this work differently. You practice can be liberatory-- let's get you there!
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