Suzette Winona Summers•Sacred Wild Healer

04/13/2026

We’re imprisoned by consumerism, and they are intending on cinching the bars of freedom even tighter through the weaknesses of our dependence on and addictions to consumption.
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You’ve probably heard that 🧊 is buying warehouses around the country for more detention centers— have you considered why? We don’t have that many immigrants here—never mind the fact that our country should not be detaining immigrants in these inhumane conditions anyway.
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We must resist.
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The language the billionaires and corporations understand is economics, and we have the power to impact them by refusing to purchase things—at least cutting back as much as possible.
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Building toward a General Strike is one way the people can stand together and make an impact they can feel.
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Start learning about the components needed for a General Strike: organizing, mutual aid, canvassing, communication.
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We can move together as one to put an end to their agenda. We must.
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May 1st 2026– NO BUYING! NO WORKING!✊🏽🙌🏽
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04/13/2026

We’ve been trained, brainwashed, convinced to consume — newer, bigger, better, more— it has become a means of social competition, and “retail therapy” has become a tactic to soothe our collective anxiety that stems from living in a society trying to convince us that we’re not “enough” without special things, and we don’t have enough of anything.
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And the machine of capitalism wants us to be unsatisfied with what we have and our sense of adequacy because it knows that in this way it can keep us plugged into the cycle of consumption. The more we consume, the more or harder we will need to work to be able to afford to consume more.
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But what if… what if we were able to truly reflect on “do I need it,” or “do I want it?”
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Wanting something is not bad or wrong, but if we find that we are not able to distinguish between the two (need and want), then we may want to pause and reflect.
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If we think we NEED everything we want, like, or admire, then we may want to reflect on whether we are in control of our choices, or we are programmed into choosing.
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I find it valuable to pause and reflect on this question in many areas of my life when I am getting unbalanced.
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Recognizing a sense of enoughness or subconscious feelings of “need” can show up in what I purchase, what I eat, what I watch, what I participate in, or countless other ways.
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When I ask myself “is what I have enough?” The answer is usually, “yes, more than enough.” In so many ways I am surrounded with abundance, and still, the programming of lack (or fear of lack) is deep.
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The more I can pull my support away from corporations, and plug my support into my local community, the more I am participating in the radical act of changing the systems which have been exploiting us all.
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Let’s get free together… for a new world, a healthier planet, a more connected community, a deeper sense of belonging.
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You are enough. You are worthy. You are love. You are light. You are re-membering.
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💗🙏🏽💗
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04/10/2026

What CPTSD Really Is

CPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) doesn’t come from one bad moment.
It comes from being in survival mode for a long time—especially in situations where you couldn’t just leave.

It’s not one accident.
Not one situation.
It’s what happens when you feel unsafe over and over again, usually in relationships.

Where it usually comes from:
• Emotional abuse growing up
• Psychological manipulation
• Narcissistic or controlling parenting
• Being neglected or overlooked
• Long-term toxic or abusive relationships
• Feeling trapped (mentally or physically)
• Being controlled or silenced
• Constantly being invalidated
• Losing your sense of self just to survive

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PTSD vs CPTSD (simple):

PTSD:
“Something terrible happened to me.”

CPTSD:
“Something terrible kept happening to me… and I had to change who I was just to survive it.”

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What CPTSD looks like

1. Your nervous system is always on edge

Even when nothing’s wrong, your body doesn’t feel safe:
• Always on alert
• Easily startled
• Constant anxiety
• Freezing or shutting down
• Random panic
• Energy crashes
• Feeling overwhelmed for no clear reason

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2. Emotional flashbacks

Not memories you see—but feelings that hit you out of nowhere:
• Feeling small
• Ashamed
• Trapped
• Worthless
• Helpless
• Unsafe

No visuals—just intense emotions that take over.

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3. Losing your sense of self

You had to become who you needed to be to survive:
• People-pleasing
• Over-apologizing
• Perfectionism
• Always fixing others
• Taking on too much responsibility
• Blaming yourself
• Carrying deep shame
• Feeling like you’re the problem

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4. Trauma in relationships

You learned love wasn’t safe:
• Getting attached to unhealthy people
• Fear of being left
• Fear of getting too close
• Doing everything alone (hyper-independent)
• Accepting less than you deserve
• Confusing intensity with real connection

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5. Burnout in your body

Living in survival mode for too long shows up physically:
• Constant exhaustion
• Body pain
• Gut issues
• Brain fog
• Trouble sleeping
• Stress-related illnesses
• Feeling drained no matter what

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These aren’t flaws—they’re survival skills

Everything you learned had a purpose:
• Fawning = staying safe by pleasing
• Freezing = staying safe by shutting down
• Fighting = staying safe by controlling
• Running = staying safe by escaping
• Fixing = keeping peace to stay safe
• Perfectionism = avoiding criticism
• Hyper-awareness = spotting danger early
• Dissociation = numbing to survive

None of that makes you weak.
It means you adapted.

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Healing CPTSD comes with grief

You’re not just healing pain—you’re grieving:
• The childhood you didn’t have
• The safety you never felt
• The version of you you couldn’t be
• The time you lost just surviving
• The love that didn’t feel safe

And that grief can feel like:
• Anger
• Sadness
• Emptiness
• Regret
• Confusion
• Longing

That’s all normal.

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Healing isn’t about forcing yourself to “get over it”

It’s not about:
• Pretending it didn’t hurt
• Forcing forgiveness
• Staying positive all the time
• “Just letting it go”
• Ignoring your feelings

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Real healing looks like:
• Learning how to feel safe in your own body
• Regulating your emotions
• Getting the right kind of support
• Doing deeper, body-based healing
• Setting and holding boundaries
• Figuring out who you really are
• Processing grief instead of avoiding it
• Building safe, healthy relationships
• Learning what peace actually feels like
• Trusting yourself again
• Resting without guilt
• Knowing the difference between past and present
• Giving yourself compassion
• Taking your power back
• Learning you have choices now
• Learning it’s okay to say “no”
• Letting safe people in

04/08/2026

04/05/2026

This beautiful blooming dogwood tree captured in photo under the full pink moon the other night speaks to me of resilience, renewal, nourishment.
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Halloween photos, prom pictures, graduation and first day of school captures have all taken place under this tree’s canopy.
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My cats have chased squirrels who would eat the profuse red berries in fall.
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As my children were growing, they would climb all over this tree.
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My oldest son would often cozy himself in the cradling limbs and read.
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I have photos from an ice storm that occurred 15 years ago where this tree’s buds were encased in ice… and still, in spring, she bloomed.
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No matter how cold or harsh the winter, no matter how many tears I cried, or how broken my heart had been, this tree bloomed with her bounty of 4 petaled flowers—life continues.
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Nature is one of my greatest and enduring teachers.
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I’m still reckoning with what it means to live in this world. So much doesn’t make sense— I shift between worlds often— one physical, one spiritual— and probably several others I haven’t even identified.
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Nature, though, is the bridge for me that connects the divine to the mundane. Her lessons anchored in what is eternal, and changing.
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I’ve had to reconcile beauty and devastation, regret and gratitude, unfathomable love and unimaginable heartbreak in this world.
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My heart has broken open and expanded more times than I thought I could survive, and continues to do so.
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There is a gratitude in the gift of feeling so deeply.
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And though it sometime feels like an unbearable curse, some mysterious alchemy, maybe love?, keeps opening me to more grace.
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I break and open, freeze, and bloom over and over and over again— learning the medicine of flow from the dogwood in my front yard.
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May the miracle of death and rebirth echo into your body, mind, and spirit on this day and every day.
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03/30/2026

We ARE the movement that liberates. We are the changemakers.
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No longer are we waiting for politicians or systems designed to imprison us to protect us. We’ve awaken from that fantasy and are embodying our people power!
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The people are moving.
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The people are organizing.
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We will not be silenced.
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We will not back down.
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We have re-membered our collective power.
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Watch what we can do together as one united people.
✊🏽💗🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🙌🏽
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LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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03/30/2026

03/28/2026

Always! ✌️❤️✨

03/27/2026

Can you hear her? The new world being born. Can you hear her soft breathing beneath the loud madness all around?
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03/26/2026

This culture has coaxed us towards separation, hyper-independence. We’ve forgotten the value of true interdependence.
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The good news is… we now have the opportunity to practice expanding our circle of belonging.
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03/23/2026

We have the opportunity to create the future we desire and it begins right NOW.
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Not tomorrow. Not next year. Not when we figure it all the details. Not when we connect with the “right” people.
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Right NOW.
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The dreaming is part of the process, and we must also go beyond dreaming— creation happens in the moment.
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Here are some questions I ask myself as I stretch into the world I want to create:

🌸What are my values? How can I practice those NOW? (While remembering I may fall short of those ideals; I do my best to practice everyday.)

🌸How do I want to feel each day? Calm? Patient? Nurtured? Nourished? How can I welcome those into my life now? And how can I share this with others?

🌸What do I need help with? Can I practice asking? Can I practice receiving? Can I consider that giving and receiving are reciprocal and one is not more or less than the other?

🌸How can I support those around me or interconnect with those outside of my own sphere? Can I expand my circle of belonging?

🌸Where can I gain wisdom from others? And how can I share and explore my thoughts, desires, and ideas with others?
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These are a few of the ways I practice self-inquiry that leads me into actions that create the world I desire to live in.
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What are some of the questions you ask yourself?
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