Really Healing Trauma

Language, Perception & Decolonization (expanded thoughts)

Introduction

In the following blog post i will expand a bit on a note i wrote about how i see what is really going on with trauma and colonized culture, and why the master’s tools won’t dismantle the master’s house when it comes to moving the needle of health & wellbeing.
This article mainly focuses on language and the cognitive function of language but keep in mind that my practice and understanding of cognition is not in competition with the body, emotions or somatic felt sensations. The western model of pitting the body (sensations) against the heart (emotions) against the mind (thoughts, language) is absolutely part of the overall colonialism that makes real transformative healing impossible in such a worldview. I get into that in this writing.

At the end i will compile some recent ephemera, videos and various things.

Before i get into it, a request:

the work i do combined with my fate, appearance and position in society makes it so that what i offer is routinely diminished and willfully misinterpreted by folks. Essentially, people want to own my narrative for themselves while constantly positioning me as a perpetrator against them and their sacred cows. (to be fair, none of our cows are sacred enough to be exempt from critical analysis.)

Add to the fact that i’m anticapitalistic and averse to cringe marketing tactics makes it so that paying my rising and ongoing medical costs and regular bills is a constant looming threat. As one of the folks in the last few years to be talking openly about decolonial somatics, i see a new legion of well-polished, well connected and financially able people (usually with masters and doctoral degrees) now adding to the discourse, which in the long run is great, but in the short term is a version of the hunger games.

Every way that you, the readers, students and clients who have been positively affected by my work can assist is necessary for my continued ability to subsist in being able to do this. Sharing my articles, referring potential clients, donating and booking private sessions are all ways you can help this neuro-decolonial worldview to benefit more beings.

I have to take 2024 to refine my “brand” in order to stay true to the vision of the work and this requires an immense amount of craft, practice, time, care, astrology and divination. This work is the long game, perhaps the longest game ever (death practice), and is anathema to this culture, society and economy. If you ever wondered where all the elders went, it’s because we all starved them and left them to die, or worse, never gave them the chance to become elders. Revolution takes cycles, generations (it’s literally in the name). There’s no quick fix for karma except getting to work and refining our practices. I wish i was in a position financially to subsidize a certain number of sessions a month, but this work IS work. There are energetics involved and like it or not, money represents energetic reciprocity. The spirits come when they are respected and when the container is respected, which includes the wellbeing of the practitioner.

Take it from someone who was also willfully MIS-educated by a colonial school system and oppressed society: these lessons are hard earned and are carried on the bitter waters of regret. The blessings cannot be separated from the burdens. Those who can do, ALSO teach.

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Western imperial indoctrination aka colonization aka abuse dynamics teaches the child mind a framework of (often coerced) behavior based on valuations that are mismatched to reality and biology.

When this happens in the family and in the culture at large, by the time a child is an adult they have incorrectly named and incorrectly perceived the processes of life and death to such a degree that they then perpetuate their own problems (internalized oppressions & learned helplessness) and police each other in ways that also uphold the oppressive and disease-causing relationships.

As an overarching symbol of this issue, this is also why most well-meaning white people on the internet cannot think critically for themselves in ways that garner actual results without also upholding various oppressions like casual and systemic racism, implicit bias and dominator behaviors.

Tldr: Whiteness is a SYSTEM. Anyone can learn to uphold it whether they are conscious of it or not. (watch these two brief videos)

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When a person’s choice making and meaning making processes (how value is perceived and assigned) have been corroded at such an early stage (from birth or in utero) and in such sustained ways (via the dominant popular culture), this corrosion and the processes the corrosion obscures are largely invisible to the mind.

This “double invisibilization” is a hallmark of neuro-colonization. I position neuro-colonization to be a colonization of the senses (how we sense, our perceptual optionality) leading to an overall behavioral maladaption that affects every relationship we have and every choice we make.

The further in time this process continues without purposeful disruption, the more entrenched certain behaviors become in the nervous systems of people and their offspring.