Naming our Feelings for Healthier Communication

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I feel ______. In order to state what we feel we have to know what we feel. To know what we feel we draw on our experience of inner looking. To gain more experience, every time a sensation shows up or you sense you might be feeling something -pause- and -get curious! Use this list to help you fill in the blank.

“I wonder what this feeling is? Could it be anger, sadness, fear, joy, relief?” Keep guessing until it feels like you’ve hit your mark. More often than not we feel more than one thing at a time.

Reducing Our Biases as Practitioners: For Therapists, Coaches, Caregivers and Healers

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Reducing Our Biases as Practitioners: For Therapists, Coaches, Caregivers and Healers

As practitioners committed to providing quality care it is important to evaluate our own biases and how they may unintentionally invalidate our client’s experiences.

As practitioners committed to social justice, we can work within the worldview of our clients, while also addressing oppression that may be affecting their growth or the growth of others.

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Showing Up for Social Justice Action→

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Showing Up for Social Justice Action

A lot of us have been awoken into action in the past weeks. As a privileged, able-bodied, white person without much political education it has taken me a while to figure out how to be more of an activist. I’m not perfect. I don’t think I am doing ‘enough’. I get overwhelmed and say the wrong thing sometimes. I’m going to share with you here what I’ve learned in case it supports you on diving deeper into this journey that is so important, but will never end.

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