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Ive been telling people there are multiple layers of trauma here
1) we are all being chased by a bear
2) our leaders are hoping get their hands on more resources when many of us are eaten by bears.
1) we are all being chased by a bear
2) our leaders are hoping get their hands on more resources when many of us are eaten by bears.
3) there is a group of people who insist there are no bears
4) While we are busy running from a bear our resources, security, savings, homes and income are being taken from us.
4) While we are busy running from a bear our resources, security, savings, homes and income are being taken from us.
It is almost impossible to know at any moment which layer of active traumatization we are contending with, or to prioritize among them.
Insecurity, poverty, death, all loom alongside abd simultaneously with a cluster of psychopathic traumas: sadisim, power, contempt, exploitation, racism, ableism, theft, indifference, ego inflation
Oh: also:
5) we are watching loved one and community members being eaten by bears all around us
6) while others insist our lives and our loved ones are expendable.
5) we are watching loved one and community members being eaten by bears all around us
6) while others insist our lives and our loved ones are expendable.
If we happen to forge some moment of peace, or acceptance or insulation or rest with regard to one layer of trauma - the others all still exist, unprocessed.
This is all to say:
This is exhausting for a reason. For multiple, impossible, horrific incomprehensible reasons.
This is exhausting for a reason. For multiple, impossible, horrific incomprehensible reasons.
