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!
Winding down as a Liberatory Practice
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Reader, We’re still a couple of weeks away from the (Northern) winter solstice, but I can already feel the season shifting in my bones. Not in a depleted way this time — but in a settling way. A rooted way. Some of you might remember that in past years , I arrived in late fall already wrung out. Exhausted. Carrying more than my body could hold. But something different happened these last two years: I slowed down. Really slowed down. I honored what my body kept trying to tell me. And — if you can believe it — it’s working. Resting, pacing myself, refusing the productivity myth… it is changing me, slowly. It has allowed space for clarity, for steadiness, for being in this work in a way that doesn’t burn me to ash… knock on wood! It is not all positive of course... But beneath the grief is a calm, assertive hope — a confident hope — that our collective resistance is not wasted. Every time we slow down, resist grind culture (rooted in capitalism, oppression, and perfectionism), unlearn the -isms, tend to one another, and keep showing up… we are planting seeds. Cultivating soil. Composting what no longer serves. Modeling that for clients and peers. Preparing something better for the next generation of therapists, healers, and space-holders. This work is not linear and we may never see the “end,” but we are part of its becoming. And because slowing down has been my teacher these last two years, I’m honoring that wisdom again. I’m beginning my end-of-year wind-down — intentionally, not urgently. I’m slowing down because my body asks for rest, warmth, and slowness. And because the more I practice living in alignment with my politics, the more natural it becomes. As I settle into this slower rhythm to hibernate and be away from my computer, here’s what you can expect from me in the next few weeks: Reciprocity (ayni): 1. From you: An important question coming next week. Your responses will shape what I offer next year — whether that’s reviving Q&As, creating new live or self-paced courses, holding group supervision-style spaces (but expansive), a Voxer community (or similar) or something we haven’t imagined yet. 2. From me: My annual end-of-year resource roundup in the following weeks. And throughout the rest of the year I’ll share the books, essays, thinkers, organizers, artists, and teachers who shaped me this year — and I want to hear what moved you, too. I’m grateful you’re here. I’m grateful we get to do this work collectively. And I’m grateful that even as the world aches, we keep resisting, radically imagining, and tending to what comes next. With warmth and conviction, Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice PS.
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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!
Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 🛋️ The Practice of Liberation, a slower, more intimate space and deeper look into what decolonizing my work, my connections, and my inner world actually looks like.It comes from the same heart as Liberatory Letters, but moves with a gentler, more vulnerable rhythm — one that centers lived practice and honest reflection, not just the professional role.It’s for those of us who want to live liberation in real time, not just intellectualize it.You...
Reader, We talk a lot about “success” at the end of the year — how much we achieved, how much we accomplished, how many milestones we hit. But if we’re honest, most of us inherited a definition of success that was never ours to begin with. Success, for many of us, was shaped by systems that taught our families that safety had to be earned. That rest was conditional. That slowing down was dangerous. That productivity was proactivity.There is nothing wrong with wanting more: more ease, more...
Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 🛋️ The Practice of Liberation, a slower, more intimate space where I share how I’m decolonizing my work, my relationships, and myself in real time.This space grew from the same heart as Liberatory Letters, but moves at a gentler, more vulnerable rhythm — one that centers practice, reflection & the person, not just the profession.It’s for those of us ready to live liberation, not just think about it.You can learn more about it in the P.S. below...