Trauma Skill Submit Day 3 - Transmuting Trauma and Oppression: Embracing Our Wholeselves

When we embraced ourselves 

Know that we are resilient and wrong 

Intersexuality

Call rebellious morning

There are risks and facts of healings


Stop CVE


What can our healing look like?

to be trauma informed.

How do we therapy join our clients?

work towards the world that can keep our people safer.

Embracing our whole-self!

Injustice can feel so overwhelming, the world can be so overwhelming

Write down your multiple identity on different bubbles

many values that you hold deep, family, justice, healing, spaceousness, compassion, wisdom, gardening...

What are the different support system?  people, community, spirituality, centers, books, practices that support you in affirming your identity, your values.

to explore, affirm ourown strength, gifts, contribution and talents

what are unique, truth of myself? what can I explore of my gifts that align with my identity and my values?

There is a lot more supports that i received from life that help me reaffirm my values

look at the relationship we already have around us that bring us hope about the world we can create together.

tracy widened the trauma to include systematic embedded traumatisation.


Embracing our intersecting identities is essential in the ongoing process of trauma healing, especially for individuals with multiple marginalized experiences. As a queer, nonbinary therapist of color who actively engages in community organizing, traci ishigo will share personal anecdotes and discuss themes of how creative action, solidarity, and transformative justice can support a sense of wholeness, hope, and healing—particularly around trauma that is intergenerational and perpetuated by the state.

Session Highlights:

Why an intersectional and systemic perspective matters in your process of finding healing, wholeness, and empowerment

The risks of and threats to creating safety and trauma healing for individuals and communities with intersecting marginalized experiences

A grounding meditation and creative reflection to invite remembrance and reconnection with your values, resourcefulness, and purpose


traci ishigo, MSW
Therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, organizer

traci ishigo is a politicized therapist, trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, and creative community organizer. As a queer, nonbinary femme, survivor, Japanese American, Buddhist, and associate clinical social worker, ishigo is committed to deepening the sense of interconnectedness in healing and living with dignity. Her approach to intergenerational and intercommunal healing includes cofounding Vigilant Love, which creates spaces for connection and grassroots movements to protect the safety and justice of communities impacted by Islamophobia in the greater Los Angeles area. Through her private practice called Webs of Well-Being, ishigo provides individual and couples psychotherapy; trauma-informed yoga and meditation; and politicized, healing-centered consulting with community-based organizations. ishigo has completed 200-hour yoga teacher training, along with additional trauma-informed yoga trainings with Zabie Yamasaki and Hala Khouri, and she has shared trauma-informed yoga and meditation throughout various communities in Los Angeles. She earned a master’s in social work from the University of Southern California, where she specialized in studying adults, mental health, trauma, and wellness.

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