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Liberatory Wellness Network

@liberatorywellness.bsky.social
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A community of radical healers and practitioners committed to anti-oppressive, anti-carceral, and anti-colonial healing practices. www.LiberatoryWellnessNetwork.com

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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Therapy is not neutral ground. It is a practice of naming what others would rather leave unsaid.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Reminder: 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...
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Loving Community for NBPOC
This 4 hour workshop centers on how anti-Blackness operates within POC communities and the ways it harms both groups.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🦋 Protecting children means transforming ourselves. Join us in that work: www.eventbrite.com/e/practicing...
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Practicing Decolonized Parenting When You're Triggered & Tired
How do we struggle well while showing up as the parents/caregivers we know we can be…most of the time?
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Our 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Liberation 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...
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Loving Community for NBPOC
This 4 hour workshop centers on how anti-Blackness operates within POC communities and the ways it harms both groups.
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Soleil Merroir (they) @soleilmerroir.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
And you my sw community, are exactly that already. I’m offering supervision for folks making the transition. You already belong.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hot take: Kink can be more trauma- informed than most therapy. 😬🔥
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
a 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?
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
just 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The 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 #DecolonizeEverything
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Our blog features stories, insights, and educational articles written by LWN community members. Topics include mental health, decolonizing therapy and healthcare, disability justice, Indigenous sovere...
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Sometimes 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
what if your client isn’t “resistant”— they’re just exhausted from surviving capitalism?
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Join 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. 🧵
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If your therapist centers compliance over consent, neutrality over justice, or diagnosis over your lived experience, they might not be supporting your healing.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Where all my abolition, liberation focused therapists & healers??
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We don’t need more liberal therapists. We need more anti-capitalist, abolitionist, socialist, communist, land-back, power-to-the-people mental health workers.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A 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.
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Equitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Equity 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Join 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As 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. ✊🏾
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As 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. ✊🏾
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Using 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.
Image Description: Graphic that reads Rest as the Heart of Resistance: Using Disability Justice Frameworks to Move Through Burnout. Saturday, July twelfth from three to five thirty P.M. Eastern time on Zoom. In this workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of disability justice as it helps us move through burnout. As interdependence is key for disability justice, we'll also have space to talk about burnout in our lives, and to create new methods for leaning on each other and making it through.Second Image: A photo of Sanzari Aranyak, the presenter of the workshop then their bio that reads Sanzari Aranyak (he/they) is a disabled and desi southern organizer and artist who's been burnt out for years. After organizing in college and working at a nonprofit, he's currently focused on disrupting urgency culture by resting, drawing outside, and spending time with their friends. You can find them online @diasphoriaart for his digital art and tiger balm candles, and find him in the world on a picnic blanket by the trees.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
LWN 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. 🫀
Black paper background with text that reads: Under colonialism, Pride Month will always be a performance if it doesn’t protect the most intentionally targeted communities. It becomes a hollow celebration full of rainbow capitalism, corporate marketing, and performative allyship - while queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people are being hunted, harassed, and killed. If Pride isn’t about dismantling the systems that harm us; if it isn’t about naming the violence, defending the vulnerable, and centering those at the margins, it’s not Pride. It’s pinkwashed propaganda.The second slide shows an image of Jonathan Joss and his husband as well as an image of Jonathan playing the character Ken Hotate on the show Parks & Recreation. With text that reads: To every queer Indigenous person: I see you. I believe you. You deserve to live and be safe, not just survive. You are not alone. We need you here. LWN 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.
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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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Healers 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Looking 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Want 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!
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
At 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.
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Zepp Wellness @zeppwellness.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We'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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Join 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Ways 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Join 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.
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Equitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This 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.
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Equitable Care Certification @equitablecare.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Taking 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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. This is why we created Healers as Humans, a processing space for healers living with SI.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Meet 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.”
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Zepp 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
BIG 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!
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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"
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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.”
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If 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!
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Let’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!
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Instead, 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?
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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! 👀
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our 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
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What 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!
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Creative 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.
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Liberatory Wellness Network @liberatorywellness.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Healers 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.
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