Are you struggling to keep up with the news today because it’s too upsetting? 

Are you overly involved in community action but not taking care of your own mental health?

Over the last decade, tension has escalated so much in politics, with the climate crisis, and most recently with the pandemic. Collective trauma responses have been pouring out of us as a species.  

Where is the middle ground between self-care and community-care?

Historically, there has been an absence of spirituality in the activism space and a lack of activism in the spiritual space - this is beginning to shift as we are seeing the intersection of healing and trauma resolution in activism spaces. 

By bringing more activism into the spiritual space, and more spirituality into the activism space; there is more embodiment and cohesiveness when we bridge the two. 

*If we want to be liberated, we need to work for the liberation for all beings.*

When we focus too much on our own experience and our own narratives we can lose context of the whole community.

In spiritual spaces it is often about what we can do as individuals to become healthy. Since we are all interdependent there is no such thing as individual liberation.

In this episode we discuss:

How highly sensitive people can stay informed without traumatizing themselves with the news.

What anger is and what we can do with it.

Why we are becoming more traumatized these days and what can we do about it.

How we can protect ourselves in spaces of conflict on the front lines.

Practices that can help you heal, ground, and remember that we are all greater than our individual selves.

How to navigate conflict better.

How to avoid burnout.

And more…

We are interdependent beings. We live in an interdependent world and there is nothing we can do to separate ourselves from other living beings.

As we come up against more crisis we have more opportunities to come together. 

Rooted Souls Hostess- Becca Speert is a Personal-Growth Coach and Astrologer who has been helping people on their spiritual-growth journeys since 2007. She has been an environmental and social justice advocate for more than 20 years. 

Guest: Kazu Haga is the founder of East Point Peace Academy. He is an experienced trainer, certified in several methodologies of nonviolence and restorative justice. Having received training from elders including Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Rev. James Lawson and Joanna Macy, he teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, and mindfulness in prison, jails, high schools, youth groups, and with activist communities around the country. He is also the author of the book Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. 

Mentioned Resources:

We Will Not Cancel Us

Fierce Vulnerability Network- climate justice and racial justice trauma healing.