Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Therapy is not neutral ground. It is a practice of naming what others would rather leave unsaid. 021
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Reminder: there is no liberation without Black liberation. 🦋 Join us: Loving Community for NBPOC. Registration closes TONIGHT at 11:30pm EST. Sign up. Like. Repost. Share. www.eventbrite.com/e/loving-com...eventbrite.comLoving Community for NBPOCThis 4 hour workshop centers on how anti-Blackness operates within POC communities and the ways it harms both groups. 010
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🦋 Protecting children means transforming ourselves. Join us in that work: www.eventbrite.com/e/practicing...eventbrite.comPracticing Decolonized Parenting When You're Triggered & TiredHow do we struggle well while showing up as the parents/caregivers we know we can be…most of the time? 010
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Our culture pressures us to sanctify the dead, but death doesn’t erase the damage they caused. Grief can be freedom. Grief can be justice. Grief can be the release of knowing they can never hurt you again. 021
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Liberation work is relational work! On Sept 13, we’re gathering for the NBPOC Workshop: Loving Community for Non-Black People of Color. We’ll unpack internalized anti-Blackness and build practices that move us closer to real solidarity. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/loving-com...eventbrite.comLoving Community for NBPOCThis 4 hour workshop centers on how anti-Blackness operates within POC communities and the ways it harms both groups. 010
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkSoleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 19/08/2025And you my sw community, are exactly that already. I’m offering supervision for folks making the transition. You already belong. 031
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Hot take: Kink can be more trauma- informed than most therapy. 😬🔥 030
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 31/07/2025a lot of us weren’t taught how to be well. we were taught how to be useful. and now we’re trying to remember what it means to just be. how are you unlearning that? 061
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 29/07/2025just a reminder that if you’re helping someone “regulate,” you also need to know what’s deregulating them—especially if it’s the state, racism, debt, or burnout. not everything can be deep-breathed away. 000
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 28/07/2025The name on your birth certificate isn’t always the name your spirit answers to. Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh’s latest blog is about naming as resistance — not assimilation. 🌿 Read + share! #NameReclamation #BlackLiberation #QueerVoices #DiasporaTruths #DecolonizeEverythingliberatorywellnessnetwork.comBlogOur blog features stories, insights, and educational articles written by LWN community members. Topics include mental health, decolonizing therapy and healthcare, disability justice, Indigenous sovere... 010
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Sometimes healing isn’t soft. Sometimes it’s sweaty, consensual, and full of safe words. What if we honored kink as one of many valid tools in the trauma healing toolbox? Learn how in our workshop: BDSM & Kink as a Trauma Integration Tool Aug 23 on Zoom | Link in bio 010
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 15/07/2025what if your client isn’t “resistant”— they’re just exhausted from surviving capitalism? 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Join us for a 2.5 hour workshop where we’ll rethink how we move through burnout! Using disability justice frameworks such as interdependence & crip time, we’ll dive into ways to support ourselves & each other through burnout. 🧵 131
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 24/06/2025If your therapist centers compliance over consent, neutrality over justice, or diagnosis over your lived experience, they might not be supporting your healing. 111
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Where all my abolition, liberation focused therapists & healers?? 020
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/06/2025We don’t need more liberal therapists. We need more anti-capitalist, abolitionist, socialist, communist, land-back, power-to-the-people mental health workers. 030
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A quick note from me (Pat) 💛, this new site has been a long time coming. We listened to your feedback, learned from the bumps in the road, and poured a lot of love into making the directory more accessible, more community-rooted, and more aligned with the vision we hold together. 010
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkEquitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Equity is at the center of everything we do at ECC. We are proud to offer an 'Equity Rate' of $675 & 'Pay What You Can' option for those who wish to take the certification but cannot afford the full price. If you are experiencing financial hardship, we also provide a limited amount of scholarships. 141
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Join us for a 2 hour thought provoking workshop and discussion designed to explore how clinicians understand class consciousness in therapeutic spaces and within mental health systems. We will examine how class shows up in therapy - with clients, in supervision, and within ourselves. 121
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025As radical mental health workers at LWN we reject carceral psychology that labels resistance as pathology. We stand with LA protestors shutting down ICE raids. 🔥 We stand with Madleen. 🇵🇸 We stand with every person who’s been told they’re “too much” for daring to feel in a fascist world. ✊🏾 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025As radical mental health workers at LWN we reject carceral psychology that labels resistance as pathology. We stand with LA protestors shutting down ICE raids. 🔥 We stand with Madleen. 🇵🇸 We stand with every person who’s been told they’re “too much” for daring to feel in a fascist world. ✊🏾 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Using disability justice frameworks such as interdependence & crip time, we’ll dive into ways to support ourselves & eachother through burnout. This workshop will include a reframing of burnout, practical steps, & end with an artistic practice. 161
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 05/06/2025LWN stands in deep solidarity with our Indigenous kin- especially those who are Two-Spirit, queer, and trans. Your lives matter. Your safety matters. Your liberation is tied to ours - the collective. 🫀 021
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 04/06/2025🦋As radical providers we know it is vital that we create radical spaces to discuss our clients that are not based in pathologizing them, hence the creation of this group. This will be a closed group in order to build rapport and community. 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Healers Are Human 💛 We hold space for others, but who holds space for us? We need spaces where we don’t have to be “strong.” Where we can be witnessed in our full humanity - raw, unraveling, uncertain, and still worthy of care. 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Looking for a virtual event to celebrate pride? Queer Creative Cosmos is for folks to come together to imagine, create and share queer worlds of love, joy, peace and safety for the individual plus the community. #pride2025 #LGBTQIA+ #lwn #virtualworkshop #community #liberatorywellnessnetwork 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Want to be the first to know when we publish an event? When you follow our profile on Eventbrite you will get emails as soon as a new event is published. Don’t miss any of our amazing new workshops, support groups, and more we have in store this summer! 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/05/2025At the LWN, we don’t separate healing from history. We know mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum - it exists in systems: carceral, colonial, white supremacist, ableist systems. This reading list is for those of you unlearning the lie that healing has to come from a license. 110
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkZepp Wellness @zeppwellness.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We'd like to introduce our new fiscal sponsee @liberatorywellness.bsky.social 🗣️ The Liberatory Wellness Network (LWN) is a community-based project born from a desire to transform mental & physical healthcare access. Patricia Duggan, our founder, saw a critical need for radical care. 011
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Join us in a loving container to explore what it means to return to the body after psychosis. We will share grounding practices that center the voices of Mad Folks with the intention of solidarity, liberation, and hope. Facilitated by Lychelle Kime, a Mad queer counselor. 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Ways to Support LWN: * Donate: Every contribution fuels our mission for accessible, anti-oppressive care. * Share Our Mission: Share our posts, amplify our voice. * Engage: Like, comment, connect with us! * Join Us: Be part of the network, help us create a liberatory community. 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 14/05/2025We need more representation for various lived experiences of inclusive queerness. At Queer Creative Cosmos we engage with playfulness to make way for new characters, clues, metaphors, maps, and more, which celebrate the entire queer spectrum, with fun yet mindful formats. 110
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Join us for a 4 hour workshop invented for white mental health practitioners, healers, social workers, peer support workers, community organizers, homeopathic or otherwise nontraditional medicine practitioners & community care workers. 100
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkEquitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 36 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. 111
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkEquitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Taking the Equitable Care Certification means expanding your knowledge around sex work, how trafficking & SW are different, why decrim is important, how the mental health industry does harm and strategies for competent care! EquitableCareCertification.com/the-certification 121
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 08/05/2025We need spaces where we don’t have to be “strong.” Where we can be witnessed in our full humanity - raw, unraveling, uncertain, and still worthy of care. This is why we created Healers as Humans, a processing space for healers living with SI. 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Meet one of our Featured Providers for May: Nicole Zegiestowsky 🌿 "My therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, strengths-based, humanistic, feminist. and emotion-focused. I actively incorporate our relationship, the “therapeutic alliance.” 000
Reposted by Liberatory Wellness NetworkZepp Wellness @zeppwellness.bsky.social · 02/05/2025💻 Working with Sex Workers 101 is a comprehensive, introductory workshop designed to equip clinicians with some of the knowledge and skills to effectively work with sex workers as clients. Sign up at linktr.ee/equitablecarecertification 111
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 05/05/2025BIG NEWS, FAM!!! This upgrade is rooted in love, vision, and belief in what we’re building together. Thank you for rocking with us, believing in this work, and dreaming bigger with us. We’ll be back by the end of the month ✨ Stay tuned. It’s only up from here! 010
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 02/05/2025"I attune to issues/products of systemic oppression such as racism/white supremacy, mestizaje, indigenismo, colonization, capitalism, ableism, patriarchy, fatphobia, and other forms of structural violence and its related traumas" 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"As a healer, I integrate anti-oppression, anti-racism, liberation, and decolonial practices by acknowledging the deep historical and systemic roots of health disparities and actively working to dismantle them in my practice. This begins with centering the lived experiences of those I serve.” 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 29/04/2025If you claim to be sex positive, feminist, radical, and liberation-focued: sex workers should feel welcome in your practice. THIS WORKSHOP is the perfect start to that journey! 122
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 25/04/2025We have so many exciting new offerings launching this summer! 👀 Make sure you subscribe to our newsletter & follow us on Eventbrite to be the first to hear when the events go LIVE 💻 #lwn #liberatorywellnessnetwork 000
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Let’s break down these common reactions to sex work 🗣️ Join us for our Working w/ SWers 101 workshop on on Thursday, May 15 from 5:00-8:00pm Eastern. Sign up at the 🔗 in our bio! 221
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Instead, we should be asking: Who benefits when care is stripped of context? When survival is labeled a disorder? When therapists are told neutrality is ethical, but naming oppression isn’t? 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 22/04/2025🌱 What’s Blooming at LWN? Your monthly dose of radical care, joy, and liberation is here! We’ve got some soul-nourishing offerings blooming this month, and we’d love for you to join us in whatever way your body, heart, or spirit is craving. We have exciting new offerings launching this summer! 👀 100
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Our blog features so many amazing stories, insights, and educational articles written by LWN community members! Read this Featured Post by Aster Varess at liberatorywellnessnetwork.com/blog 000
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 16/04/2025What did you learn about sex workers in your graduate program? 👀 All 3 of these topics are rookie mistakes therapists make that directly harm sex worker and non-sex worker clients, alike. Let’s unpack these topics as a brief guide for working with sex workers! 132
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Creative Resistance: Activism & Healing Through the Arts 🎨🖌️ We will examine the intersection of activism and the arts (“artivism”) and review examples of how creativity challenges systems of injustice, amplifies marginalized voices, and fosters community resilience. 130
Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Healers Are Human 💛 We hold space for others, but who holds space for us? This is why we created Humans as Healers, a processing space for healers living with SI - a space where we are not pathologized, not punished, not shamed for struggling. 130