Speak gently to yourself today. You are enough. Your heart deserves care.

Your body & heart need your own kindness. This meditation invites you to speak gently to yourself, release self-criticism, & honour your inherent worth. You deserve the care you freely give to others.

Supremacy lied to you. You are not what it told you. You are more.

Supremacy lies to you about who you are & what you’re worth. This meditation invites you to release internalized shame & remember your wholeness. Supremacy is a system, not your truth. You are more than what it told you to be.

Grief is love that survived. Honor it. Feel it. Let it move through you.

Grief lives in the body. It is love that has survived across generations. This meditation gives space to feel & release ancestral grief, honouring those who came before you & the love that still flows through you.

You are not alone. Connection is survival. Interdependence is your truth. Feel it in your body.

Individualism isolates us. It teaches you to carry everything alone, even when your body is breaking under the weight. This meditation helps you reconnect with the truth that interdependence is survival. Feel how belonging lives in your body. Remember you were never meant to go through life alone.

Your body is allowed to feel safe. Slow down. Breathe. You are held.

Safety is not something society hands to you. It is something you can practice in your body. In this meditation, you’ll slow down, breathe, & notice the places where safety can take root. Even in small moments, your body is allowed to feel safe.

You are part of a web of care, seen & unseen. Let connection hold you today.

Community is not optional. It is life. In this meditation, you’ll ground yourself in the truth that you are part of a web of care, seen & unseen. Let yourself feel held by connection, by the people who love you, & by ancestors who walk with you.

Rest is not lazy. Rest is sacred. Rest is yours.

Rest is not laziness. Rest is not a privilege you must earn. Rest is resistance in a world that demands constant productivity. This meditation guides you into stillness, reminding you that rest is sacred, necessary, & yours.

You are allowed to receive. You are allowed to love yourself fully. Let your heart soften.

Love is not something you have to earn. Care is not something you need to prove yourself worthy of. This meditation opens space in your body to receive love, to soften, & to remember that love is your birthright.

The harm was never yours to hold. Let your body remember freedom.

This meditation supports the release of internalized racial harm held in the body. Oppression teaches us to turn against ourselves to stay safe. In this space, you’ll witness those patterns without judgment and begin to let them go. Each breath is an act of return, an act of self-liberation.

Survival is resistance. You are resilient. You are sacred. You are here.

To survive oppression is an act of resistance. This meditation honours your endurance & the sacredness of your survival. Your continued presence is a form of resistance. Feel into your body & recognize your resilience.

I’m alisha, the person behind Traumatized & THRIVING and the host of Decolonize Your Mind. I’m a neurodivergent mama of five, and a human who has lived through addiction, betrayal, racial trauma, grief, and survival in systems that demanded my silence.

Those lived experiences shaped me, but they also pushed me to ask better questions: Why do we accept systems that harm us? Who benefits from our exhaustion? And what could it look like if we chose community and care over profit and productivity?

This podcast is where we’ll explore those questions. We’ll weave together somatic meditations, critical reflections, conversations, & decolonized tools that move trauma out of the body instead of trapping it there.

House Rules for This Space

+++Discomfort should be expected. We’re gonna have to learn to lean into it—it’s how we will grow.

+++Abusive or oppressive language will not be tolerated.

+++Accessibility matters. If you need support, I’ll do my best to meet you there. Please reach out directly & let me know how I can make my content more accessible.

+++Creating a safe space for people to ask questions without being attacked or shamed requires that no single person, or group’s, comfort is prioritized over another. Everyone’s humanity matters here.

+++This is a space for learning, connecting, & healing, not perfection. It’s never about perfection.

+++Please know, I’m not here to debate or convince anyone. I’m here to educate, learn, & connect with those who feel the same ache, the same knowing, that there’s more to life than survival inside these systems.

If you’re here, it means you’re ready to detox from capitalism, reclaim your nervous system, & reimagine a life, & a world, where community & justice come first.

I’m so glad you found me.

You belong here.