complex racial trauma

Gender, Violence, and Betrayal | Weekly Consult # 16 The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/RifJnzXNchI Why is it that when someone who’s not a stranger is the person who victimizes you, the damage hits like 10 times harder than if it is a perfect stranger? For this month of domestic violence awareness, we need to know

Every Child Matters | Weekly Consult #15 The Archer Therapy Blog https://youtu.be/-W7pR8ezwuI On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we must also understand that the suffering from the residential schools that were meant to eliminate the culture of the Indigenous people was not something that just happened in the past. Colonization continues to affect

Palestine, Privilege, and Ancestral Resources | Weekly Consult #14 The Archer Therapy Blog 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 community

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

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