Decolonization isn't about shame or blame, it's about remembrance, reconnection, and return.

It's about restoring right relationship with land, lineage, and self in ways that honor our differences while recognizing our interdependence.

This isn't to equate different forms of harm, the material consequences for Indigenous, Black, and other colonized peoples have been devastating in ways white communities haven't experienced.

But recognizing how colonization has wounded everyone helps us move beyond guilt toward collective healing.

But colonization also wounded white communities in ways rarely acknowledged.

To become "white" (a category that didn't exist before colonization) European peoples had to sever connections to their own ancestral traditions, healing practices, and relationships with land.

For Indigenous peoples, it meant genocide and land theft.

For Black communities, enslavement and systematic oppression.

For immigrants, displacement and pressure to assimilate.

Colonization operates through division
It creates hierarchies that separate us from each other, from the earth, and from our own wholeness.

Understanding who decolonization is for helps us move beyond guilt, shame, and isolation toward collective action and healing.

None of us can heal in isolation—we need each other's wisdom, perspectives, and unique gifts. We need each other's medicine to become whole. 6/6

It's also for those who've lost connection to their own ancestral wisdom and healing practices—a loss with profound consequences. 5/6

Decolonization isn't just for Indigenous peoples, though their leadership is essential. It's not just for those directly harmed by colonial violence. 4/6

The truth is more complex: while our experiences differ dramatically, our liberation is bound together. The systems that harm some ultimately harm all, though in different ways and to different degrees. 3/6

Colonization thrives on making us believe we're separate—that our struggles and healing are disconnected from each other. 2/6

Yet our ancestors knew other ways of being—and these ways still live in our bodies, in our dreams, in our deepest longings for connection.

The antidote to fear isn't courage—it's connection. When we face these fears together, we discover capacities for transformation we didn't know we had. 5/5

Perhaps the deepest resistance comes from the challenge of imagining alternatives—of envisioning ways of relating to land, to each other, to knowledge that aren't structured by extraction, hierarchy, and separation.

Colonial thinking has convinced us there is no alternative.
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The fear lives in our bodies, not just our minds. For some, it's the discomfort of confronting historical injustices. For others, it's the pain of reconnecting with historical trauma and grieving what was lost.

In both cases, the body's resistance makes perfect sense—it's trying to protect us. 3/5

Resistance to decolonization isn't simply about defending privilege. It's about our human relationship with the unknown.

Decolonization asks us to question frameworks that have structured our entire understanding of reality. Even when these frameworks cause harm, they're familiar. 2/5

This work isn't meant to shame anyone, it's meant to invite more freedom.

When we recognize how colonial thinking has shaped our perception, we create the possibility of seeing differently and reclaiming ways of being that support our full humanity. 5/5

Decolonizing the mind means developing "relational sight": honoring multiple ways of knowing, being, and healing.

It means reclaiming ancestral wisdom while remaining open to the wisdom of others. 4/5

For colonized communities, this manifests as *internalized oppression*: seeing ourselves through the colonizer's eyes and finding ourselves wanting.

For colonizing communities, it creates *internalized superiority*: the unconscious belief that colonial ways are inherently more advanced. 3/5

"Colonial sight" shapes what we find beautiful, what we consider intelligent, and what we value as knowledge.

We call Indigenous healing "alternative medicine", but alternative to what?

To European approaches positioned as universal, objective, and simply "medicine." 2/5

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What ancestral connections live inside you, waiting to be remembered?
What cultural or ecological threads were cut in your story?

Let’s listen.
Let’s trace the severed roots.
Let’s begin the restoration. 🌱

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