Reader,

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One of the quieter ways many of us feel inadequate as therapists, healers, service providers, educators?

Being relentlessly bombarded with trainings.

One after another promising the tool, the modality, the framework that will finally help us feel competent.

Finally heal our clients.

Finally feel knowledgeable enough.

How consumerist.

How capitalist.

How deeply commodifying.

Because here’s the truth:

No one can certify your capacity to sit in presence with another human being.

No one can accredit your ability to energetically attune to your clients through the noise of the world... (side note: and the world is VERY loud right now!)

That is not a product to be bought.

That is a practice.

A commitment.

A muscle we build over time—especially when we carve out space to ground ourselves in the middle of systems that are designed to disorient us.

Don’t get me wrong: modalities aren’t inherently bad.

Many are useful. Provide us with a blueprint to follow. Some are even liberatory.

But there’s something profoundly extractive about the way big training companies flood our inboxes and social feeds with messages that prey on our professional insecurity.

Messages that whisper:

“You need this to be legitimate.”

“You’re not doing enough.”

“You don’t know enough.”

It’s a setup.

And it mirrors the larger colonial systems that condition us to distrust ourselves. To look outward for permission. To commodify our healing, our labor, and our worth.

But knowledge lives within you.

And within your clients, too.

Your intuition is not a last resort—it’s a source of wisdom that has survived generations of erasure.

So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the flood of trainings, let this be your reminder:

You’re not behind.

You’re not broken.

You’re being sold a story.

There are more grounded, more liberatory ways to learn.

Ways that don’t require you to pay more to be more.

Ways that reconnect you to what you already know—and to what your ancestors knew, too.

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🌱 Reflection Prompts for you:

• What stories have I internalized about what makes a “good” therapist? Where did those stories come from?
• When was the last time I trusted my intuition with a client—and what happened when I did?
• What is my body’s response when I see yet another training offer in my inbox or scroll? What does that sensation want me to know?
• In what ways have I commodified my worth as a therapist? Where did I learn that my value is tied to productivity, credentials, or performance?
• What kinds of learning feel expansive and grounded for me? What feels extractive or anxiety-inducing?
• What practices help me return to presence with my clients—and with myself—outside of formal modalities?

🔥 Hit reply ad share your reflections with me, I want to know what's happening in your world!

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Here's to more decolonial presence and less imposed knowledge,

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In solidarity,

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Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice​

PS. You can read previous Liberatory Letters here.

PPS. Sign up for a 1:1 Decolonial Consultation here before the price goes up in July. Therapists and healers have been using this meeting to process how their decolonial work is pivoting to ground and remain grounded during during these extra uncertain times.

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