Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration Camille Sapara Barton: Tending grief and rebuilding our capacities to sense more deeply
Jul 23, 2024
Camille Sapara Barton, an advocate for grief practices, shares profound insights on embracing grief rather than overcoming it. She discusses the challenges of information overload in modern life and how it affects our emotional well-being. Exploring the impact of capitalism on our humanity, Camille highlights the importance of community rituals and somatic practices for deeper self-awareness. She encourages reconnecting with our bodies and honoring traditions, particularly in helping future generations navigate unresolved pain.
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Reclaiming Sensation
- Reclaiming our capacity to sense and feel is crucial for cultural change and right relationship with life.
- Western societies, influenced by industrialization and capitalism, have conditioned us towards numbness and disconnection from our bodies.
Systemic Mental Health
- The mental health paradigm often pathologizes individuals, blaming brain chemistry rather than systemic issues.
- Conditions like anxiety and depression are understandable responses to harmful systems, not solely individual problems.
Navigating Numbing
- Acknowledge that numbing and dissociation can be helpful survival strategies in challenging situations, but avoid making them your default state.
- Develop the capacity to move between states of numbing and feeling, regaining agency over your responses.