When social movements and social change organizations face significant external political pressure and backlash, it can turn inward, and they can fracture along the lines of individual and collective unaddressed traumas. They break apart in places where we are replicating patterns that harm others and ourselves. We cannot ignore our wounds, nor can we work over or through them, nor mine them for energy. Instead, it’s through an orientation toward healing and repair for ourselves and others that we recover our capacity for feeling, for relationship, and, with that, the ability to strengthen our
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