Organizations, Programs, & Services
Brown Girl Yoga Tribe
The Brown Girl Yoga Tribe was created by Jowa. She hopes help women of color “heal, ascend, and maintain a high vibration, through yoga, meditation, and other self-healing modalities.” BGYT has a number of workshops, classes and methods to maintain a safe community among those who want to better themselves in any way.
Colorism Healing
Dr. Sarah Webb’s Mission is below:
1) Raise critical awareness about colorism as a global issue by providing a hub of information and resources
2) Foster healing through creative and critical work. Healing includes 3 key components:
Individual healing includes personal mental health and reprogramming implicit bias.
Collective healing involves repairing relationships between individuals and among groups of people.
Systemic healing entails structural changes throughout all sectors of society.
My intention is that the community feels informed and affirmed.
The Body Temple
“The Body Temple is an online community where women and femmes circle to rediscover the sacredness of themselves.” Founded by Carmen, she aims for every home to have a healer. She focuses and trains on “Sacred Ritual Dance, energetic healing techniques, body-centered meditations,”and other holistic healing practices.”
We R Native
We R Native is a “ a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. They strive to promote holistic health and positive growth in our local communities and nation at large.”
The Nasiona
“The Nasiona is a movement and non-profit organization that advocates for and centers, elevates, and amplifies the personal stories and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and of those Otherized by dominant cultures.”
Seeding Sovereignty
Seeding Sovereignty is “an Indigenous-led collective, works on behalf of our global community to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land.”
Books
Decolonizing Trauma Work
Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities.
Children of Blood & Bone
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy.
Women Who Run w/ the Wolves
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.
Whereas
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics.
Homie
Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer.
Neon Soul
In short, powerful verses, Alexandra Elle shares a hard-won message of hope. Alexandra Elle writes frankly about her experience as a young, single mother while she celebrates her triumph over adversity and promotes resilience and self-care in her readers. This book of all-new poems from the beloved author of Words From A Wanderer and Love In My Language is a quotable companion on the road to healing..
The 5 Levels of Attachment
In The Five Levels of Attachment, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. explains how what we believe becomes intimately connected to our identity, or who we think we are. This belief of what the truth is in turn creates all our attachments and all our emotional responses.
The Yamas & the Niyamas
The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment they seek, and gain the skills to choose attitude, thought, and action.
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories.
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Diaz’s debut collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of the mythological intensity of tribal life and a deeply rooted cultural history. In these distinctively voiced poems, a sister struggles with a brother’s addiction to meth, while everyone, from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus, is invited to hash it out.
My Grandmother’s Hands
The first self-discovery book to examine white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
Well Read Black Girl
NOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD - An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.
Other Organizations & Social Media Groups
IG: @BlackGirlsWritePoetry
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IG: @Brown.Girl.Garden
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IG: @Az.NoMoreTrauma
✨ Certified Trauma Coach & Yoga Teacher #BYM
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IG: @Making_of_Mercia
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IG: @MelaninMvskoke
•Afro Indigenous
-AA
-Muscogee (Creek)
-Shawnee|Yuchi|Quapaw|Cherokee Descent
•Affirming Black Indigeneity
•Black Liberation
•Indigenous Sovereignty
IG: @MyMendu
A journaling companion for POC. We’re about anti-racism and dealing with racial trauma. 📝 By a writer👩🏽🦱 & therapist👩🏻.
IG: @Hood_Yo9a
a collective effort dedicated to representation + translation in wellness
IG: @DecolonizeMyself
First Nations Personal journey. Exploring colonization, decolonization, healing, & culture.
IG: @HouseofUmiWellness
🌿PlantCentric Health Coach Training for BIWOC
🌿Medicinal Herbs at Online Boutique Apothecary
✊🏾 Free FB Community: Wealthy in Wellness for WOC
IG: @DecolonizingTherapy
Decolonizing Therapy™
🌘Author
🌗”The Rage Doctor”
🌖Ancestral Trauma Healer +
🌕Liberatory Activist & Creative
🌒Sacred Rage www.honoringrage.com
IG: @IndigenousWomenRising
Working to make sexual health and reproductive justice accessible for our Native fams.
IG: @Dr.Thema
Psychologist, Minister, Author: Thriving in the wake of Trauma, Homecoming Podcast Host As seen on CNN, HLN, OWN TV, WE TV, BET, CBS, NPR, VH1 She/Her
IG: @ThatGalRei
Mental & Sexual Health #LifestyleBlogger. Counseling Student. Reiki Healer. Author. Inspiring Naturalistas while catching ’s | thatgalrei@gmail.com
IG: @The Bohemian Socialite
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IG: @az.nomoretrauma
Trauma Survivor, Coach, & Mental Health Facilitator
Journey to heal your trauma 🙏🏾
Publisher #TheHappydeck
#Nomoretrauma Podcast
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