Decolonizing Therapy (2025)

30/08/2025

I am not too much.
I am not too sensitive.
I am not just wrong.
My neurodivergence is more than just a diagnosis, a difference, a deviance.

What if it’s an ancient pathway home, back to our Original Instructions, as my friend Jen Maramba puts it. Back to the ways our Ancestors, bodies, and Spirit already know how to move, feel, sense, and respond.

What if it is a moving towards alignment with our own bodies and systems rather than assimilation with the societies and systems around us?

Join me in conversation with the BRILLIANT Jen Maramba, a sacred witness, decolonizing energy healer, integrative somatic trauma therapy practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, and parent. Their work bridges ancestral connection, ceremony, and embodied creativity to support deep healing and remembrance. Jen lives at the intersections of queerness, neurodivergence, and diasporic identity, and brings deep-rooted authenticity, wisdom that honors the natural rhythms of our bodies and minds, AND a glorious, grounded presence.

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28/08/2025

Shame was never your soulmate.
It was the mothertucking messager — passed down like debt, chained up like inheritance, but never chosen like identity.

It silenced your mama. Your granny. Maybe even your great-granny.
Shame kept generations alive, but it was never the truth.

Back then, they used torches and trees.
Now? They use starvation. Mind control. Divide & Conquer.
They use bots, doxxing, and faceless “bravery” behind a screen.

And us? We shrink. We slink away.
Because sometimes swallowing feels safer than speaking dafuq out.
That’s natural — but you, sweet one? You deserve that voice.
What that throat chakra do? 👀

Shame ≠ humility.
Healing ≠ performance.
Liberation is the lesson. Burn that mothertucking playbook.

Your wholeness begins where shame ends:
Compassion. Boundaries. Safety. Nature. Strength.
Messy truth-telling. Asking. Walking away.

Nothing reciprocal will demand your silence.
You glow where you are safe to rise. 🌱✨

27/08/2025

Deep sigh.
We are not broken for needing rest. We are not weak for pausing. We are not lazy for slowing down.

We are human.
And humanity has been exploited, extracted, and worked to the bone by systems that profit from our exhaustion.

So let this land:
🌱 Rest is not indulgence.
🌱 Stillness is not failure.
🌱 Fatigue is data—an ancestral whisper saying “enough.”

Our bodies remember what our ancestors never had space for. Rest becomes resistance. Rest becomes medicine. Rest becomes repair.

My Good Peoples, claim your rest. Lay down the lie of laziness. And let your body catch up to your Spirit.

06/08/2025

✨PARTS WORK MEETS DECOLONIZATION. LET’S TALK.✨

What if our “inner parts” weren’t just personal—but political?
What if healing our exiles meant reckoning with colonial violence?
What if our protectors were shaped by ancestral trauma, survival strategies, and spiritual memory?

This month’s Office Hours with Dr. Jenn dives deep into Internal Family Systems (IFS) and asks the bold, necessary questions:

Can therapeutic models truly hold the politicized pain of our people?

Are we healing in frameworks that ignore the systems that harmed us?

What unlearning do WE need to do as therapists, space holders, and healers?

Joining Dr. Jenn is the brilliant — therapist, writer, and truth-sayer — as we explore how Parts Work can expand when held in community, history, and liberation.

Come with your curiosity. Come with your rage. Come with your longing to do this work differently.

🗓️ August 14, 2025
🕓 4 PM ET
Use WELCOMEOHX50 for 50% off your first month.

Drop “OFFICE HOURS” below and we’ll DM you the details 💌

25/07/2025

Living life under the foot of oppression means living under daily, cumulative trauma from ongoing systemic violence - including racism, colonialism, ableism, homophobia, and capitalism. This isn’t metaphorical, My Good People. It’s real, it’s embodied, and it’s chronic.

To be marginalized in this world is to be in a near-constant state of inescapable nervous system dysregulation, exhaustion, terror, and grief. And yet? You and I? We’re STILL HERE. Still standing, breathing, rising, and fighting back with resistance, brilliance, and a throbbing radiance of pain and pleasure that says, “Yes, I’m hurt AND I still shine.”

Living with trauma doesn’t mean you’re broken — the sensations you feel are just confirmations of the truth. Your body keeps the score of what the world tries to erase. This isn’t about victimhood - but SURVIVAL in the face of dehumanization. The sacred stamina and sophisticated strength within your nervous system, your bloodline, and your intuition.

Your RAGE is not an overreaction, but an overt correction of a dialogue designed to make you appear complicit in the attempted brainwashing and erasure of your spirit for the sake of “the empire.” These systems were built to silence you, but they had no idea who they were playing with.

You’re not a victim. You’re a fu***ng throbbing star. Let your radiance be your resistance.

Decolonizing Therapy is designed to help you reclaim your ancestral, instinctual, and natural right to embody, express, and execute change on behalf of YOU, YOURSELF, and YOUR PEOPLE. (Who live and breathe through you... and have prayed for their blessings to reach you.)

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24/07/2025

Might f**k around and become the very presence I craved when the world called my fire “too much.”
When they labeled my spirit “defiant” instead of divine.
This isn’t a redemption arc—it’s an evolution.
We heal forward by becoming the ones who don’t flinch at disruption. We build new lineages through radical acceptance.

23/07/2025

For some time I thought I was broken. Wrong. Alone. “Too much, too angry, too sensitive.” “Too angry!” This is a result of emotional gaslighting. Of the coloniality surrounding us all.

Rage is not only a healthy response to a multitude of blocked goals for POC, but a by-product. Part of what has continued to be transmitted to many of us is perpetual gaslighting. Being told (verbally or not) that we are “too smthg or another” makes us feel “wrong” & contributes health dis-ease. We are disconnected: from each other. From our ancestral lineages. From our own trauma & healing stories.

We can CHOOSE to see things differently. Our feelings of righteous rage are not only understandable but necessary.

What would happen if we had spaces to collectively and responsibly grieve? To cry and scream and pound the floor and heave?

What would happen if our very ancient tears were received with more compassion, not just from others but from ourselves?

If we actually honored our enraged aspects of Self, and instead of “fixing” how we FELT? And then felt some more?

If we created more time to simply slow down? Sign out? Recuperate from the atrocities we have witnessed?

What would happen if we allowed ourselves a refuge in the grief and in the rage and saw the two inextricably connected?

In my own experience of healing (it’s always going to be a process and a journey) I have found the most love for myself and others, when I have shown up and allowed vulnerability to take center stage.

In these spaces I became fully transparent for myself.
In these spaces I parented myself.
In these spaces I valued and had deep empathy for myself—for the very fabric of my existence that needed witnessing.

It was only then that all the theories and politicizing became vital. It was then that things made sense. It was then that I could gently place my “need to be right and seen and heard” aside to simply acknowledge that my Rage at being lied to and violated was a vulnerable and selfless act.

Our feelings of rage are valid. 💜

22/07/2025

Originally reposted May 20, 2024 from

I really think folks are struggling with abandonment issues of a historical type.
We can’t trust the “criminal justice systems.” We can’t trust our education systems—and the mental health complex is stuck… stuck on pathologizing and symptomatizing and overanalyzing—with a side of gaslighting people globally.

Many of us are clear that mainstream media is not serving anything palatable or healthy. So we need to plug into other sources of knowing and the mobilizing work that folks have been engaging in for yearssss—way, way behind the scenes.

We don’t need systems that have harmed us and our ancestors to legitimize our peoples’ struggles. Even the highest international court is not needed to legitimize our people’s struggles and the violence of what they face.

21/07/2025

Trauma doesn’t just live in the mind—it embeds itself in the body.

Unresolved trauma can shape our posture, breath, digestion, immunity, and even how we express or suppress emotion.

These aren’t just “bad habits.” These are survival codes passed down through bloodlines.

Our cells remember what our minds can’t always articulate.

The body becomes the record keeper when language fails.

👉🏽 This is why emotions like rage, grief, fear, or shame aren’t just feelings—they are biological responses tied to lived experience, stored memory, and ancestral imprint.

You may not “remember” the trauma, but your nervous system does.

You may not “see” the history, but your fascia, breath, and tears often reveal it.

This is why somatic therapy is vital.
Because healing isn’t just cognitive—it’s cellular.
It’s political.
It’s embodied.

📚 Decolonizing Therapy isn’t just a book.
It’s a reminder that your emotions are not weaknesses.

They are data.
They are lineage.
They are sacred signals pointing toward your liberation.

18/07/2025

Mandela’s legacy often reads like legend—but beneath the icon was a human who leaned into simple acts of care to stay whole. He turned a prison yard into a garden, let novels be his secret escape, and used movement to remind himself that freedom begins in the body.

We may not face decades behind bars, but we all carry our own forms of confinement—historical trauma, systemic harm, open wounds. What if we met those edges with Mandela’s curiosity and grit?

Drop your go-to self-care ritual below and let’s build a toolkit of generational wisdom. Because liberation work isn’t just systemic— it’s personal, somatic, and wildly human.

July 18 is my birthday.

But it’s always very like a cosmic reminder that even resistance can be braided with thick moments of joy, thick moments of truth - and with an intimacy to the shadow aspects of humanity.

a cosmic reminder that even joy comes braided with resistance.

17/07/2025

Let’s name it plain: Western therapy didn’t just evolve—it extracted.
It lifted rituals, breathwork, plant medicine, communal care, and somatic wisdom straight from global Indigenous and ancestral traditions.

Then, after centuries of criminalizing those same practices—
🔹 beating them out of children
🔹 calling them “primitive”
🔹 burning entire belief systems to the ground—

…it rebranded them as “cutting-edge,” slapped a price tag on healing, and marketed it back to the very people it helped colonize.

All while ignoring the fact that much of today’s trauma was manufactured through colonization, forced displacement, medical apartheid, and cultural erasure.

The system created the wound.
Then stole the remedy.
Then sold it back under white coats and licensure boards.

We were bled dry, then handed a for-profit clinic to “help us” on the same land stolen from us.

This is why we Decolonize.
This is why we Remember.
This is why we Rage—and Reclaim.

16/07/2025

Healing isn’t a destination—it’s a radiant ripple.

You don’t have to “fix” your lineage to be worthy of rest, joy, or love.

You being you, in your full expression, your sacred rage, your trembling voice, your belly laugh—that is the healing. That’s the medicine your bloodline has been waiting for.

Healing generational trauma is not a checkbox.
It’s a frequency.
It’s a love song to the ancestors who weren’t allowed to cry, scream, or breathe freely.

So live boldly. Express loudly. Glow on purpose.
And know this: every time you reclaim your voice, your lineage exhales.

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