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…