Liberation Is Work (Even When We’re Tired)
Liberation and Community Care, Grief and Loss, Rest and Resistance, Mental Health and Seasonal Changes, Community and Connection, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Liberation and Community Care, Grief and Loss, Rest and Resistance, Mental Health and Seasonal Changes, Community and Connection, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

Liberation Is Work (Even When We’re Tired)

This year has been wilder than most.

Uncertain in ways that feel both global and deeply personal. Marked by loss—of people, of safety, of illusions we may have once held about progress, protection, or care. It’s been a year shaped by ongoing genocide, by systems that hoard wealth while communities are left to ration breath, shelter, and grief. A year where the gap between what could sustain collective life and what is actually shared feels almost unbearable to witness.

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Decolonizing Mental Health: Indigenous Wisdom, Land, and Liberation
Land and Liberation, Ancestry and Remembrance, Community and Ritual, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Land and Liberation, Ancestry and Remembrance, Community and Ritual, Healing and Resistance, Culture and Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

Decolonizing Mental Health: Indigenous Wisdom, Land, and Liberation

Mental health didn’t start with therapy. It didn’t start with Freud. It didn’t start with the DSM or CBT worksheets or mindfulness apps.

We always had ways of tending to the mind and body long before any insurance company decided what counted as a billable hour.

But here we are—trying to heal inside systems never built with us in mind. Systems that pathologize grief but ignore genocide. That diagnoses anxiety but says nothing about displacement…

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