Climate Repair: Healing Through Trauma

Part 3 in the series: Toward a Somatic Understanding of Climate Change, Trauma, and Transformative Healing

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash

What do you yearn for? What’s getting in the way?

We repair.

Climate repair understands climate change as a systemic stress response from trauma.

Climate repair is an iterative process and a practice.

Climate repair is not prescribed.

Climate repair is a way of being.

Climate repair demands accountability.

Without acknowledgement and accountability, not only will the wound remain, but it may fester…If the opposite of denial is truth, then truth is the predicate for a society of inclusion and belonging. — Stephen Menendian [2]

Climate repair is re(-)membering: recalling and bringing together again.

‘Remember’ is a particular type of word. That means it’s part of my body. What happens when I remember is that whatever else I’m remembering, what I’m really remembering is that nothing is separate from me. — Alexis Pauline Gumbs [5]

Re-embodiment

I feel, therefore I can be free. — Audre Lorde

Self-work // self-healing

Collective healing

Reparations, abolitionism, and new economies

Co-futuring and co-creating

Fumbling Towards Repair

References

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(they/them) educator | designer | somatic coach | climate x healing | emwright.co | founder webecome.us

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Em Wright

(they/them) educator | designer | somatic coach | climate x healing | emwright.co | founder webecome.us