Decolonizing Therapy (2026)

29/01/2026

We’re taught really early that rage is the problem. That if it shows up, it means something is wrong with us.

But rage doesn’t just come out of nowhere.

It comes from loss.
It comes from harm.
It comes from having your agency taken and never given back.

And this is especially true for people the state already treats as disposable— women, Black and brown folks, immigrants, children.

So instead of listening, we rename it. We diagnose it. We push it away. We call it “dysregulation” instead of a response. We call it “too much” instead of information.

Grief is allowed.
Rage is punished.

But rage isn’t the opposite of care. Rage is grief’s twin. It’s the part that says, this should not have happened. And avoiding rage doesn’t actually make us safer.

It just forces it underground—
into our bodies,
into our relationships,
into our politics.

So what if rage isn’t something to get rid of… but something to listen to?

What is it trying to show you?
What boundary is it naming?
What needs protection?

That’s where kinship begins.

28/01/2026

The clinical mental health system isn’t broken. It’s doing what it was built to do.

It turns crisis into revenue. Distress into documentation. Control into something called “care.”

People are stabilized just enough to keep the system running while money, safety, and authority move upward.

This is why naming harm isn’t the same as repairing it. Without redistribution, critique becomes moral cover.

If your stability, income, or professional legitimacy is tied to this system, repair requires more than reflection. It requires material redirection.

Financial reinvestment is not charity. It’s accountability.

Project LETS has spent over a decade doing what the clinical system refuses to fund: peer-led crisis response, rapid intervention to prevent psychiatric incarceration, emergency stipends, and healing justice clinics led by survivors themselves.

This is care without cages. 
If you benefit from the system, reinvest. If you’ve been harmed by it, know there are other ways to survive.

💸 Support Project LETS. Link in bio.

26/01/2026

In the era of self-care, softness has been sold back to us as a luxury product. Something private. Individual. Apolitical.

But what if softness is actually a collective practice?

In this episode, Dr. Jenn sits down with EbonyJanice Moore to talk about what she calls real soft girl sh*t as a devotion to love, sovereignty, and shared survival.

This is a conversation about:

👉🏾 nervous system care that doesn’t stop at the self
👉🏾 tenderness as a political stance
👉🏾 joy and softness as technologies for Black futures
👉🏾 what it means to care with your people, not away from them

EbonyJanice is a Hip Hop Womanist, scholar-priestess, sovereignty mentor, and revolutionary dreamer. Founder of Emma’s Legacy. Author of All The Black Girls Are Activists and Sacred Text For Black Folks Soul. And soon, Real Soft Girl Sh*t—a book rooted in ancestral wisdom, womanist theology, and the audacity of knowing you’re worthy.

If you’ve been wondering how to stay soft without turning away from the world this episode is for you.

Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts

🎧Listen now. Comment “PODCAST” for the link.
❤️ Connect with EbonyJanice: ebonyjanice.com
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24/01/2026

Marrow is where we go beneath the surface.
Past the talking points, past the coping strategies, past the polished beliefs.

This season lives at the living core.
Where belief meets body.
Where history shapes power.
Where things are being made and unmade in real time.

Marrow is not theory.
It’s what keeps you alive.
It’s what gets protected, extracted, politicized, inherited.

If you’ve been feeling the tension in your bones between what you were taught, what you’ve survived, and what you’re trying to build…this season is for you.

Come sit with us as we deep dive into the marrow of….everything.

❤️‍🔥 New season coming Monday, Jan.26th

✨ Season 2 we’re in conversation with:

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22/01/2026

What if the way you experience love, identity, urgency, and burnout isn’t personal—but programmed?

Neurocolonization 101 is a 6-part workshop series examining how colonial modernity conditions nervous systems to normalize hypervigilance, scarcity, emotional endurance, and relational collapse—then labels those adaptations as love, maturity, productivity, or “just how things are.”

This series brings together somatics, decolonial analysis, attachment theory, and relational inquiry to trace how power organizes sensation, timing, desire, and connection—not just institutions or beliefs.

Join Dr. Jenn for Tapping Into Our Ancestral Technologies!

Dr. Jenn’s class turns toward remembrance rather than repair, exploring how colonial psychology severed people from ancestral, collective, and somatic ways of knowing, particularly through the pathologizing of neurodivergence.

She offers a pivotal reframe: nervous systems as intelligent, spiritual gifts as real data, and regulation as something that happens in relationship.

This session is a grounding anchor inviting us to reclaim what was interrupted and to relate to our bodies with context, care, and dignity.

If you’re ready to explore how to replace intensity with intimacy, control with care, and exhaustion with devotion, this space is for you.

🗓 Sunday, March 22
🎓 Part of Neurocolonization 101 (6-part live series)
💸 Scholarships available
👉 Register now: bit.ly/neurocolonization101

08/01/2026

Softness as Resistance
Every winter, I fall to my knees.
This falling is to my own altar — to my body, my rhythms, my practices. It is a return, not a collapse.
My abuela would say that our people get quiet around the solstice. Winter is not a season of pulling or demanding. The snow slows things down. The animals rest. Food digests more slowly. The body listens.
We don’t pull on our viejos — our elders — during this time. We let them rest. We thank them. We practice gratitude and humility. We remember them not as mighty superheroes, but as humans — with tenderness and harm, growth and rupture, beauty and contradiction. As fallible souls in an ancestral line that continues through us.
Winter doesn’t ask us to grind.
It asks us to remember.
Remember who taught us to brace.
Remember who taught us to soften.
Remember when tenderness became dangerous — and why.
This month inside Office Hours, we are practicing softness not as collapse, but as lineage repair.
A soft body.
A strong spine.
A refusal to harden in order to survive. Where are you allowing the meat to fall off your bones?
What’s fallen off mine:
The need to emotionally caretake everyone, just because my enurodivergence converges with my Knowing does’t mean it is my responsibility.
The need to make everyone happy. This is an old imprint from my childhood to survive- and the matriarchial line of linegae did and do this for social capital- no more.
:date: January 8, 2026 — 4:00 PM ET/ 1:00 PM PST
Inside Office Hours

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06/01/2026

“Decolonizing S*x Ed Is Not a Metaphor”

S*x education has never been neutral.
It was shaped by colonial agendas, purity culture, medical violence, and the erasure of ancestral knowledge about body, pleasure, gender, and autonomy.

So when we say decolonizing s*x ed, we’re not talking about updating curricula.
We’re talking about truth-telling.
About repairing the severed relationship between body and land.
About confronting how harm was taught as “health,” and how silence became a tool of control.

Decolonizing S*x Ed is a return:
to pleasure as wisdom,
gender as fluid,
autonomy as sacred,
and literacy as liberation.

This work isn’t metaphor.
It’s political, ancestral, embodied.

Huge thank you to for bringing this offering forward.

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BREATH TO SOIL: THEORY TO PRACTICE

Decolonizing (S*x Ed) Is Not a Metaphor
🗓 January 22–23, 2026 (Virtual)

A two-day gathering centering s*xual literacy as movement and medicine, featuring
✨ Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke
✨ Dr. Autumn Asher-Blackdeer

For educators, clinicians, healers, and anyone ready to unlearn colonial harm and reclaim liberatory approaches to s*x education.

👉🏽 Register: tinyURL.com/DecolonizeS*xEd

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06/01/2026

“Energetic boundaries differ from physical boundaries in the fact that energetic boundaries can move far and wide from one’s physical structure. Our energetic boundaries have a tendency to raise or lower others’ energetic boundaries as we come into contact with each other. It is possible for energy to lay stagnant or dormant until there is ‘room to explore.’ Our energy system holds emotional patterns, memories, pain, health problems, and even proclivity to addictions from our ancestors and our experiences.”
— Decolonizing Therapy, pp. 286–287

And I want to be clear:
I have felt this in my own body — the weight of stories, expectations, and inherited wounds that were never mine alone to carry.
I am constantly unlearning what the world told me I “should” hold, and reclaiming what actually belongs to me.
If you want more of my experiences, teachings, and the deeper stories behind this work, you can read the full chapter — and the whole journey — in my book.

05/01/2026

Welcome back, beloved community. 🫂

I hope your winter break offered rest, warmth, grief space, joy space—and a moment to feel yourself again in a world that keeps demanding we split from our bodies.

As I return, I’m grounding into why this work exists and why 2026 is asking for deeper clarity, courage, and connection.

From Decolonizing Therapy (pp. 44–45):
“Colonialism is a subversive force and a purposeful one… creating false narratives that have stayed tucked within our families, institutions, self-concepts, and ‘treatment’ for decades.”

This passage feels especially resonant right now.

Many of us are feeling the cracks—in systems, in relationships, and in our own internalized survival patterns. Emotional decolonization invites us to name these fractures without fear, unlearn the lies that trained us to shrink, and reclaim the parts of ourselves colonization taught us to mute.

This is deep work.
This is political work.
This is healing work.

This month, I am honored to uplift an offering that expands this conversation into embodiment, s*xuality, gender, and community care. Special thanks to for sharing this with us.

BREATH TO SOIL: THEORY TO PRACTICE
Decolonizing (S*x Ed) Is Not a Metaphor
🗓 January 22–23, 2026
💻 Virtual

A two-day conference for s*xuality educators, clinicians, teachers, birthworkers, and healers confronting how colonialism shapes s*x education, pleasure, gender, and care—and learning how to move forward with integrity.

Featuring keynotes by Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke and Dr. Autumn Asher-Blackdeer.

👉🏽 Learn more & register: tinyURL.com/DecolonizeS*xEd

We’re grateful to begin the year with you.
Let’s keep unlearning, remembering, and imagining together.

22/12/2025

“Joy is not made to be a crumb.” — Aurora Levins Morales

Let’s be clear.

Aurora Levins Morales—Puerto Rican, Jewish, feminist, disabled, justice-rooted—was not talking about vibes.
She was talking about distribution.
About who gets ease, safety, rest, housing—and who is told to survive on leftovers.

Joy, in this lineage, is not a mood.
It is not seasonal.
It is not something you earn after suffering “correctly.”

Joy is structural.

And when joy is hoarded—when safety is rationed, when housing is precarious, when survival is individualized—what we are witnessing is not a personal crisis.
It is a systemic one.

Today, we are sharing a mutual aid request for someone deeply rooted in our community:
A recently graduated, first-generation Latinx master’s-level clinician, a former student, a caregiver to a mother with cancer and a younger sister—who, after surviving years of homelessness, is now facing the possibility of losing housing again.

This is not about charity.
This is about collective care.

Mutual aid is how we practice the world we say we want.
It’s how we refuse crumbs.
It’s how we say: your stability matters. your family matters. your joy matters.

If you are able to give, please do.
If you are not, sharing is also medicine.
And if all you can offer today is witnessing—thank you for that too.

Joy was never meant to be a crumb.
And none of us are meant to carry this alone.

22/12/2025

The Solar year closes not with fireworks —
but with a pause.

A holy slowing.
A turning point conceived in the dark.

This is the season of returning.
Beneath the noise.
Without performance.
At the root.

The Solstice reminds us that you are not here by accident.
You are part of a pulsating lineage — here by sacred design.
Your life is meaningful.
Your longing is meaningful.

This is Seed Receiving time.
Not rushed.
Not forced.
Not loud.

The instructions for your next becoming don’t arrive through urgency —
they arrive through trust.

And this year, the Solstice meets the final New Moon in Sagittarius, asking one thing of us:

👉 Stop shrinking.
👉 Stop calling yourself “too much.”
👉 Move toward what can actually hold you.

Because your longing is not a flaw — it’s a compass.
Growth does not require abandoning yourself — only devotion to truth.
And you are allowed to take up space without betraying your spirit.

May this Solstice be both a resting place and a launch pad.
May it recalibrate you gently.

Blessed Solstice ❄️✨

Grateful to Dawn M. Harrison () for this transmission.
Dawn and Dr. Jenn go way back, and she serves as Decolonizing Therapy’s resident astrologer, offering deep, grounded guidance rooted in lineage and care. Honored to share her words. 🙏🏽

19/12/2025

Energetic boundaries can stretch far beyond the body.
They show up as style, movement, artwork, personality — an energetic signature that communicates without words. These boundaries can sit close to us or radiate out wide, depending on what our spirit is willing to project.

And because energy is always in motion, our boundaries are constantly brushing up against each other. Sometimes they raise the room. Sometimes they dim it. Sometimes they send ripples through thousands. Our energetic signatures evolve — shaped by family, culture, environment, and the patterns we’ve inherited or resisted.

Patterns that root us in peace, creativity, collaboration, and upliftment are constructive.
Patterns that thrive on separation, minimization, and the denial of basic human expression are destructive.

Acknowledging the energy we hold — with curiosity and support — gives that stuck or dormant energy somewhere to go. It gives it room to breathe, move, evolve.

And joy is a part of that evolution.

Joy is an energetic boundary too.
Dance is how that boundary moves.

When we let our bodies sway, shake, glide, or soften, we’re practicing emotional freedom — the kind our ancestors used to survive, remember, and reconnect. Movement reminds us that our energy can expand without collapsing, that our spirits can shift without breaking.

Excerpted from pages 286–287 of Decolonizing Therapy
—available on our website or wherever books are sold.

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Credits & Notes

With deep appreciation for the embodied wisdom and joy shared here:
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