Some reminders about mental health liberation


Reader,

  • Never forget that we all have some internalized oppression to unlearn.
  • Liberation work is communal work.
  • True healing (in mental health, in coaching, or in any other service based business) means connecting with the people you serve, it does not mean providing them band-aid treatments.
  • If you want to decolonize your practice, you have to begin by decolonizing yourself (decolonizing yourself is decolonizing your practice).
  • Healing from burnout is also decolonial work.
  • Working within the mental health industrial complex with a decolonial mindset means you are resisting oppression from the inside.
  • Stop feeling concerned of engaging in virtue signaling and saviorism and start doing something about it, e.g. learn from someone with lived experience and pay them for their labor.



The free monthly Q&A sessions (a.k.a. Decolonized Consultation Sessions) are back

If you participated last year, you are automatically signed (but can opt out here if this is not the right time).

🌈 These are 55-min Q&A sessions where you get to ask all the questions you have about decolonizing and liberating your therapy and healing practice. You get to create community as the group will also offer feedback and suggestions that have worked for them. These groups are a wealth of communal knowledge!

☀️ I’ll answer as many questions we can cover in one meeting.

☀️ The meetings are recorded and shared for a limited time if you can’t attend.

☀️ You can attend to one or all meetings.

If you have not joined yet, you can sign up below:

And share this email with ALL your therapists and healer friends, I want EVERY therapist and healer to decolonize and liberate their practices. We are causing too much harm and we need to STOP doing so NOW.

In solidarity,

Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice

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