what experiences they’ve had, traumas they’ve faced, what healing they’ve had, what practices they have for regulation, and importantly what behaviors they know shut down the dysregulating experience for them.
I’ll talk about this a bit more over time but am happy to answer questions. My big lesson of the last decade is we keep asking for people to show up to our institutions with a 2 gallon jug in a country that thrives on 2oz shot glasses to keep us apart.
If we want different, we will have to build different at all levels. We can’t expect magical thinking to create a new set of emotional regulation skills.
And if we’re keeping it 💯, the reason we don’t have these skills in our systems is because misogyny taught us that care work is not valuable and important work that should be invested in - women are supposed to just do it for free.
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