
Is Your Healing Work Anti-Oppressive?
Anti-oppression, anti-racism and intersectional feminism are important frameworks through which to approach any kind of healing work, including recovery from trauma, addiction and mental health challenges. I believe these frameworks must be integral to the work, lest that work is insincere and ineffective because it is founded on cognitive dissonance. Healing is a form of liberation. We are shedding toxic thought and belief patterns, detrimental behaviours and abusive ways of