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Decolonizing Therapy How to Make Space for Culture and Identity

Decolonizing Therapy: How to Make Space for Culture and Identity?

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Traditional therapy—built on Western, white, individualist frameworks—has often excluded, pathologized, or ignored the cultural identities, spiritual beliefs, and lived realities of people from marginalized communities. Decolonizing therapy means intentionally creating space for culture, ancestry, and identity within the healing process. It’s about restoring what colonization tried to erase: that mental health is not separate from […]

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How to Return to Safety Using Polyvagal-Informed Practices

Fight, Flight, or Freeze? How to Return to Safety Using Polyvagal-Informed Practices

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When you’ve been through trauma or chronic stress, your nervous system may get stuck in a pattern of survival—fight, flight, or freeze. Even when there’s no immediate danger, your body may still respond as if it’s under threat. Polyvagal Theory gives us a roadmap back to ventral vagal, the state of calm, connection, and safety.

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Polyvagal Theory Explained A Beginner’s Guide to Nervous System Healing

Polyvagal Theory Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Nervous System Healing

Mental Health /

Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, offers a new way to understand how your nervous system responds to safety, threat, and connection. It explains why sometimes you feel calm and connected, while other times you shut down, lash out, or freeze—and how those reactions are biological, not personal failings. If you’ve ever wondered why

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