📚Mental health resources for the Black community 🎤 Arts Mental Health 💻 We’ll help you find a therapist // FREE therapy for formerly incarcerated POC
I’ll put it this way — if you have a tight-knit ANYTHING
• friend group
• church
• neighborhood
• workplace
• school
• arts community
Those are the most likely areas of your life that can become more organized and coordinated, with political study & action
Trauma did NOT make you stronger.
It changed the structure and function of your brain, put you at risk for hormone imbalance chronic pain, made it hard to discern between calm chaos.
Let’s not glorify trauma.
Let’s GET REAL about healing:
It. Is. Possible. XO, Dr. Jen
Not a single person will be reimbursed for the damage done by ICE in Chicago.
Not a single therapy offer to deal with the trauma of the raids.
Not a single right will be restored.
Not a single family will be unbroken.
Not a single child left unscarred.
This is America.
Thank you @_beamorg and @YoloAkili for an incredible Black Mental Health & Healing Justice Peer Support Training last night 🙌🏾
So many gems. So much impactful information.
We’re grateful to @LMTischFund for making this training possible for us.