Here at Mind Atlas, I also am a firm believer that our mental wellbeing is not separate from the context and systems in which we’re part of. Our healing and wellbeing does not happen in a vacuum and is not decontextualized.
We live in a world unraveling, where we’re severed from our emotions, our roots, our communities and each other. No wonder many of us feel emotionally unwell and chronically lonely.
Systems that were once designed to protect us are silencing, controlling, pathologising and oppressing us. We are expected to fit into impossible narrow norms that are not based on what we need, but rather what is profitable.
I know from lived experience what it’s like to get oppressed into impossible standards and norms and ways of being. And how healing begins when we speak boldly, connect deeply and confront what harms us.
Here at Mind Atlas, I believe that psychology can be used to help challenge capitalism, colonialism, and the myths they’ve sold us about what it means to be whole. Below you’ll find a recent article I wrote, inviting other psychologists to accept this challenge.
