Kate Nulty, LCSW

Please read this:

https://www.nytimes.com//o/coronavirus-mental-health.html

Body-Settling Hold Africans were brought into this country not to settle but to be sold into slavery, submit to white supremacy and to suffer. For centuries we... have not been able to safely settle . As mental health clinicians who incorporate the body into our practice, we have to help this population find a way to settle into the body, into story, into healing and into a home where we can feel safety and belonging. This hold is a great way for black bodies to learn to reclaim our bodies and settle into ourselves and find healing and hope from racialized trauma. Non-blacks can do the hold as a way to birth compassion, empathize and settle into others’ pain. Some statements for non-blacks include: I am settling into others’ pain right now. I make space for empathy. I am aware my body can pass harm to vulnerable people. I release compassion from my body. I hold space for others who don’t look like me. (Hold by Peter Levine)

"Planning for forever is essentially impossible, which can actually be freeing: It brings you back into the present. How long will this pandemic last? Right now, that’s irrelevant; what matters is eating a nourishing meal, telling someone you love them, walking your dog, getting enough sleep. What matters is that, to the degree you can, you make your own life sustainable every day."

Body-Settling Hold Africans were brought into this country not to settle but to be sold into slavery, submit to white supremacy and to suffer. For centuries we... have not been able to safely settle . As mental health clinicians who incorporate the body into our practice, we have to help this population find a way to settle into the body, into story, into healing and into a home where we can feel safety and belonging. This hold is a great way for black bodies to learn to reclaim our bodies and settle into ourselves and find healing and hope from racialized trauma. Non-blacks can do the hold as a way to birth compassion, empathize and settle into others’ pain. Some statements for non-blacks include: I am settling into others’ pain right now. I make space for empathy. I am aware my body can pass harm to vulnerable people. I release compassion from my body. I hold space for others who don’t look like me. (Hold by Peter Levine)

Very grateful to be able to connect with my clients online during these difficult times. written by a colleague but echos my position exactly.

White folks, you must dig into your embodied racism, evenespeciallyif you think it’s not there. And this is not just to shift what you say and how you shape your arguments, questions, Facebook posts, tweets. It’s not about performing your wokeness. This isn’t about what you sayit’s about how you act; how your body might be predisposed to rely on a racial inheritance that endangers the lives of others. What’s in your guts, in your muscles, in your blood? What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world? How can you train your bodies to respond differently when you are triggered, when you’re in fight-or-flight mode? How can I help you stop yourselves from killing us?

Very grateful to be able to connect with my clients online during these difficult times. written by a colleague but echos my position exactly.