Suggested by CD Cheryl De Guzman Capadocia over 1 year ago
Leaders and subscribers to the 'wellness' space are often not populated with immigrants or BIPOC individuals and communities. Immigrants who lack the time, finances or accessibility to this type of education, coaching, etc. are marginalized from being able to access greater quality of life for themselves and their following generations.
Poor coping mechanisms for stress either become self-harming behaviors or internalized within the body. For generations of families who do not have the opportunity to navigate their health and wellness with community spaces, or even solely to talk about it, get more sick, and live shorter lives.
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Entreprenuer @ Living Divina Yoga
Holistic modalities like meditation, breathwork, therapy, and yoga, prove to be a catalyst for healing intergenerational trauma. The means to provide these services are becoming more available, but generally not readily made aware of.
The approach to provide organizations with the tools to offer these types of services requires a grassroots movement, boots on the ground approach. From my experience, creating local community alliances that fortify the efforts are far more effective than just creating ads and flyers circulated via email.
Curating community events and inviting these power partners to participate, leverages their network and extends the reach to provide marginalized communities new ways to cope, heal, and live more meaningful lives!
Founder @ CultureLancer
A lot of the issue with addressing trauma comes from the lack of education and understanding of it. In my experience, creating spaces to educate and normalize the experiences that grow out of trauma open people up to explore holistic methods and seeking them out. Community alliances are powerful but I feel often the educational or psychoeducational piece is often overlooked and underestimated.
Founder and Conscious Fitness & Nutrition Coach @ CD FITNESS
Thanks for your input, Jessica! I agree with you and find those modalities to have been particularly helpful for myself in practice, and supplements to my clients' success in their health and fitness journey.
I am also interested in training programs that address intergenerational trauma for those experiencing body dysmorphia, body shame, and even eating disorders for health and fitness coaches/professionals.
I'm curious as to what methods you took to establish those alliances within your community, and your strategies that have been successful. Starting my online coaching in fitness and nutrition amidst the pandemic posed challenges on making in-person connections, but community events whether virtual or in person have been enjoyable, but particularly difficult to gain traction with larger audiences, especially for those in marginalized groups.
Entreprenuer @ Living Divina Yoga
I worked for a non profit in Chicago serving trafficking survivors and used these modalities to equip them with the tools they needed to overcome their trauma, while breaking the stigma that society labeled them as. We created partnerships with organizations that aligned with our mission to create a stronger network of resources for each client to shift form survivor mindset to THRIVER mindset.
Rallying community alliances take time. When you listen to your clients, they share a wealth of information on various programs they have tried. You do your research and start networking. Inviting these alliances in on a conversation fortifies everyone's efforts to support the people they are reaching.
Most victims of trafficking are also living below the poverty line, have criminal records, have lost their children to the system, have no access to psychiatric care, etc, Rather than trying to resolve every need ourselves, we leveraged our network and provided these resources to our clients. It wasn't just our job, it was everyone's job to provide support where it was needed.
For example: for just one client we would gather resources for record expungement, therapy, medical care, housing referrals, nutrition, stipends for public transit, out patient therapy for addiction, and so much more.
Best way to get more connected is to check your state website and look for any social services that fill the needs of the people you are looking to serve. Everyone is a master of their craft. Lean into leverage the network you create! Hope this helps.
Founder and Conscious Fitness & Nutrition Coach @ CD FITNESS
This is incredibly helpful! I didn’t think to look into the state website either. Thank you for your advice.
Technology and National Security Fellow @ National Security Innovation Network
Perhaps an unsatisfying perspective@Cheryl De Guzman Capadocia : a people-centered focus ironically often starts with infrastructure. Integrating programs into schools, advocacy platforms for elevating local environment quality standards, fortifying the community with easily-accessible "health hotspots" (e.g. grocery stores w/in walking distance). Perhaps a grading rubric + platform that helps local governments (district-level platforms) assess and organize the likes of all of this.