12/15/2025
Where were you taught to blame yourself instead of the system?
So many of us were trained—consciously and unconsciously—to internalize harm. To believe we are “losing it,” failing, not resilient enough, not healed enough. But we are not the problem. The systems are. Systems that overdiagnose, pathologize survival, and then ask us—softly, politely—“What do you need?” after they’ve exhausted our nervous systems and stripped away our trust in ourselves.
Decolonizing Therapy names what so many bodies already know: healing cannot be neutral. Therapeutic spaces can be untherapeutic. Grief and rage are not symptoms—they are healthy, embodied responses to colonization, violence, and ongoing extraction. Emotional–decolonial work cannot be rushed or intellectualized. It asks us to return—to intuition, to lineage, to community—and to remember that what actually combats trauma is not perfection or compliance, but connection, boundaries, and collective joy.
📘 Excerpted from pages 29-35 Decolonizing Therapy — national bestseller. Available on our website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.
