complex racial trauma

Weekly Consult #14: Palestine, Privilege, and Ancestral Resistance

Palestine, Privilege, and Ancestral Resources | Weekly Consult #14 The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/reOFEquhRwQ Let me tell you something. You can’t meditate your way out of a system that’s trying to destroy you. Of course, we’re fans of self-care, but this individual self-care thing is not going to cut it. We need to think about

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Weekly Consult #13: Suicide, Allostatic Load, and Complex Trauma

Why do suicides happen? | Weekly Consult #13 The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/jIOpR12dgqY So when trauma happens to you over and over, it’s not only that your brain is taking in the stress, it’s also altering its predictions that it’ll have about the future. This is why for complex trauma survivors, it feels like there’s

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Weekly Consult #12: What do we do about Climate Anxiety?

Climate Anxiety and Climate Change | Weekly Consult #12 The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/ei0qu6mKfCQ Let me tell you a story. Two years ago, my house was flooded. I don’t know if you saw in the past few weeks, the past few months, terrible images in Canada, the sky being orange, burning forests, wildfires spiraling out

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Weekly Consult #11: Why do I feel numb? Dissociation.

Weekly Consult #11: Why Do I Feel Numb? Dissociation and Resource Integration The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/F-4BOJvi11E Hey, so you ever meet someone who you ask them what’s going on and they quite literally cannot feel any emotions in their body? Or maybe you ask them a bit about their childhood and for some reason

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