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Radical Healing

"You are the peaceful warriors of political advocacy.

You are battling one of the greatest ethical and moral battles of our lifetime in one of the most challenging professions in the country. You are engaged in fighting a war of words.

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That is heavy. The weight of your jobs is heavy. Just know that. Recognize that you are seen. You have one of the most critical jobs in our profession to work within social justice policy. To be the voice to those who are silenced. Most oppressed."

​-Elizabeth Fuchs, MSW

"We need you. All of you. You cannot burn out.

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The point is to feel it. So you don’t project or displace the emotions when you do not want to. This controlled and targeted release is so you stay aligned when you need to maintain your composure when facing tough conversations and emotions. How we use this in everyday life? Find out what works for you. Therapists are amazing. Community healers are, too!"

​​-Elizabeth Fuchs, MSW

 

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"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation,

and that is an act of political warfare"

- Audre Lorde

 

 “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”

-Bayard Rustin

Healing Tools

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Grounding

  • Close your eyes and establish where the grounding chord between you/her and the center of the earth. Take a minute to feel it. We are all tethered to the Earth’s core by a chord. Once the chord has been established, start to imagine energy coming up from the Earth’s core through the chord. Give it a color. What color is it? Usually, they are earth tones. Once the energy is flowing up, breathe in for four and then hold your breath for four in your heart center. Then breathe out the crown for eight counts, imagining gold and violet light are shining down and entering through the crown of the head. Repeat this cycle for several breaths.

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Cutting Cords

  • When doing the work, we may find that we have attachments to certain people or ideas. Finding where on the body we feel those attachments and then cutting the cords of the attachment is important. Once the cord is cut, determine if there is something that was released. If so, fill the void with light and love. If there was no release, as your guides to help you patch where the cord was cut.

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Treating the Shock

  • When doing this work, our nervous system gets engaged. Talking about traumatic events triggers where they are stored in our body, and triggers the body’s protection system. The body doesn’t know that we aren’t experiencing the event again in that moment. The mind stores the information in the body. So, when we start talking about it the body engages, sending us into shock. To treat the shock it is important to have hot and cold options available. Ice on the neck. Heat on the belly. The body will know what it wants and where it wants to put it.

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Build a Toolbox

  • Heat, Ice, Essential oils, fidget items

  • Giving the brain something else to do

    • Gratitude list

    • Alternating feet and hands

  • Release the emotions --> Identify what you are feelin

  • Figure out how you want to treat or release it

    • Cry or yell into a pillow

    • Throwing a tantrum on the bed

    • Write it out, Draw it out, Dance it out

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