Some tips for safer chest binding – breathing, stretching and self-massage.
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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
Great pdf of zine all about consent in relation to intimacy, sex, accountability.
pdf of useful general ideas around consent, accountability etc, lots of which is relevant to bodywork practice.
Useful article about actively checking in and working with boundaries, and honouring resistance, and fostering consent based care working with and as part of healing trauma.
Useful podcast conversation discussing some research done about gaining good, clear, informed consent, about negotiations of consent, and client autonomy in sessions, when practitioners work with multiple therapies. It discusses ethics, and different approaches and contexts to consent.
Useful article about clear communication and informed consent in massage practice contexts.