Healing Roots: Decolonizing Therapy
In a world often shaped by colonial narratives and systemic oppression, true healing requires a decolonized approach. At Heart Body Therapy, we believe in the power of "global decolonial practice" to foster whole-person mental health fitness. This means acknowledging the impact of historical and cultural trauma on our bodies, minds, and spirit, actively navigating/working to dismantle structures of violent extraction, and uprooting internalized oppression. We honor the gifts found in our ancestral inheritances and use these strengths to heal ourselves and our lineages. Let us embark on a journey of emergent somatic liberation, where your body becomes a vessel for living dreams, healing liberation, and empowered wisdom.
Our approach integrates emergent somatic liberation, interpersonal neurobiology, and nature-based therapeutics to address the complex layers of collective, ancestral, global, and personal trauma. We understand that trauma is not just a mental experience; it is stored in the body, impacting our physiology and emotional well-being. Through somatic therapy, we help you reconnect with your felt-sense, allowing you to release the grip of trauma with each exhaling breath, and cultivate a sense of courage to meet life. Techniques like functional core integration, body/breath practices, acuwellness, and contemplative movement training empower you to reclaim your body and rewrite your story.
We also delve into the powerful realm of interpersonal neurobiology, exploring how attachment-based survival, cultural neuroscience, and the physiology of oppression shape our daily experiences. By understanding these dynamics, we can address chronic symptoms, conflict, and harm, to foster internal harmony, promote co-regulation and build healthier relationships. We explore the transgenerational epigenetic impact of trauma in the body, bringing awareness to present time and place, and the importance of ancestral root healing rituals.
Our practice is inclusive and affirming, embracing neurodiverse queer ecologies and global majority perspectives and liberation psychologies. We understand the ongoing challenges faced by individuals navigating social injustice and discrimination, through survival strategies of internalized oppression, code-switching, masking, and dissociation. Our work creates future legacies, weaving through embedded histories to explore the choices from the realm of possibility and restory narratives of present life. We create a sacred connection to context for you to express your authentic truths and human realness.