self-worth & oppression

🔎It is well researched in psychology that we continuously recreate our sense of self-worth.

👉This is based on approval / disapproval from our caregivers first, and then from others & society.

These messages can:

💜promote, validate, empower

or conversely

💔dismiss, marginalize, criticize

our experience of "self" 

🔹As a psychologist, I see oppression and its expressions as causing clear psychological trauma.

💥We know that Trauma, especially when systematically reproduced by
racism and discrimination, has generational impacts on the health and well-being of people.

➡️Breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma depends on all of us, especially those who are P R I V I L E G E D

🔆Being trauma-informed includes preventing, recognizing, and responding to many types of trauma.
🔆Crucial to this recognition is understanding that
different forms of systematic oppression, including discrimination and exploitative practices, are traumatic.
🔆This cycle of trauma and oppression calls for healing-centered solutions that have an impact on multiple generations simultaneously (Center for Hunger-Free Communities)

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