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Explore a wealth of articles on relational trauma, systemic burnout, and decolonizing well-being. Whether you're seeking practical guidance or transformative perspectives, you'll find resources to help you nurture connection, resilience, and collective healing.
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As a scholar and researcher, I am committed to ethics and transparency in my work. All academic-related writings are rigorously cited and will not appear on this site, while fully original pieces are shared on my Substack. On this blog, I use AI tools to support clarity, structure, and flow, helping translate my detailed, dense writing style into accessible posts for wider audiences. All ideas originate from my own research and writing, with AI serving as a supportive tool. As an Autistic researcher, this helps me to make complex topics more engaging. I also use midjourney to produce artwork for the site, along with use of open-source images.
I explore AI, post-humanism, and cyborg futures in my academic work, reflecting critically on its potential and ethical implications. This is my ‘stance’ today, the ground on which my feet are held. This could change tomorrow. Life is dynamic, and so is technological ‘innovation.’ If you wish, you are welcome to write me to share perspectives, or to ask for references and guidance.
The End of the World (As We Know It): On Trauma, Collapse, and the Possibility of Otherwise
What if healing wasn’t about resilience or repair, but about releasing the world as we know it and imagining something beyond its limits? Denise Ferreira da Silva challenges us to see the end—not as catastrophe, but as an invitation to unmake and remake the very structures that have sustained violence.
Why Is Trauma Such an Overused Word These Days?
The overuse of the word trauma risks diluting its meaning, but reclaiming a relational understanding can help us address its systemic and collective dimensions.
The Hidden History of Trauma: How Our Understanding Was Shaped by Systems of Power
From railway spine to PTSD, the biomedical model of trauma reflects a history of prioritizing individual pathology over relational and systemic realities.
What Is the Biomedical Model of Trauma?
The biomedical model of trauma frames it as an individual pathology, but relational approaches reveal its systemic roots and call for collective healing.
From Dualism to Relationality: Redefining the Self in Healing Work
Relationality invites us to move beyond dualism, redefining the self as part of a vast web of relationships where healing is a collective and systemic process.
Woundscapes: Mapping Trauma as a Geography of Pain and Possibility
Woundscapes frame trauma as a geography of relational ruptures and openings, revealing pathways for collective healing and transformation.
Trauma and the Land: Why Healing Must Include the Earth
Healing from trauma requires reconnecting with the land, recognizing that our well-being is inseparable from the health of the Earth.
Decolonizing Trauma: Reclaiming Ancestral and Relational Knowledge
Decolonizing trauma invites us to reclaim ancestral and relational knowledge, moving beyond individual recovery to collective healing and systemic transformation.
What is moral distress?
Moral distress arises when systemic barriers conflict with ethical values, reflecting a need for relational care and collective action to transform systems of harm.
How are compassion fatigue, moral distress and burnout related to each other? How do they impact people working in helping professions?
Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and burnout intersect in helping professions, compounding emotional and systemic challenges, and highlighting the urgent need for relational and systemic approaches to care and sustainability.