Activist Trauma Support – leaflets on Trauma and Burnout
Listing Tag: psycho-emotional health
Some self-care tips written for and with Black Lives Matter on dealing with trauma, grief and depression
A series of five articles about massage and body-work with survivors of abuse.
This is post #3 in a series of posts that are designed to help illuminate WTF is going on in a life/body that has been shaped largely by neglect, personal and/or cultural traumas.
As part of my deep dive into trauma I wanted to write a post about the way trauma works in the body and brain, and the implications of this when we’re working with trauma personally. I want to understand which kinds of practices are likely to be helpful, and which risk retraumatizing us.
Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system.
In his last years, Brazilian writer and torture survivor Roberto Freire leads viewers and film-maker Nick Cooper into the world of Soma. Therapists and clients help show the exercises and processes of this “anarchist” therapy, which also strives to include the philosophies of Wilhelm Reich and the vibrant culture of the Afro-Brazilian martial art / dance “capoeira angola.”
Article about some experiences and benefits of cold water swimming
Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health. Article about decolonising mental health
This meditation is for the purpose of expanding body awareness and deepening relaxation through focused breathing.