Healing in solitude eventually brings us home only to realize that what causes us pain, what causes many others pain, are issues much bigger than our singular lives—and those issues remain: income disparity, generational trauma, isolation, the slights and violence of being made a marginalized other. Such widespread systemic and historical injustice limits our capacity, and even when we are able to address trauma through individual healing, it’s not enough. Only when we come together to shape, dismantle, and rebuild the world can we start to end the ongoing cycles of collective trauma caused by
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