Day 4: Healing from Systemic Oppression
Healing is not just personal—it is collective.
Many of us carry not only our own wounds but also the imprints of generational trauma, cultural conditioning, and systemic harm. The structures we live within—patriarchy, religion, colonialism, and rigid gender roles for example—don’t just shape our thoughts; they shape our bodies, our breath, our sense of safety.
At the Somatic Wisdom Institute, we recognize that healing must go beyond the individual—that true liberation happens when we acknowledge the ways trauma is woven into the systems around us and work to break those cycles.
The Body & Oppression
Oppression is not just something that exists outside of us—it is something we feel.
💨 The tightness in your chest when you feel unseen.
🔥 The exhaustion of always having to fight for your worth.
🌊 The fear stored in your nervous system from generations of survival.
For those in the queer community, for women, for people of color, for gender-expansive people, and for anyone who has been told to shrink themselves to fit into a world that does not fully honor them, the body often holds the residue of that struggle. Healing is not about adapting to harmful systems—it is about releasing what was never ours to carry and reclaiming the full expression of who we are.
Healing as Liberation
At the Somatic Wisdom Institute, we approach healing as an act of resistance and reclamation through:
💫 Embodiment work—to undo internalized oppression and restore a sense of belonging in the body
🔥 Somatic processing—to create safety and ease in the nervous system
🌍 Community healing spaces—because true healing happens when we are witnessed and held
This is the work of liberation.
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