It's mental health month. I've been checking out what lessons we can carry forward from last year. Trauma is a growing field here in Kenya. I feel like more people are becoming aware that it's not all in our minds. We have been hurt by the system, government, and society.
Part of this hurt comes from being in a dysfunctional system starting from the home and immediate family. Which then trickles to the different regions and countrywide. This dysfunction I speak of is because of living in adverse environments which make it impossible to be a healthy, functional human.
Some of the adverse experiences in Kenya include poverty, disease, lack of education, children being forced into marriages, sexual assault, police violence and sexual gender based violence. Such experiences affect how we see the world, treat ourselves and other people.
Our healing on a collective level demands that we learn from our environments and work to gradually transform them into centres for healing.
Read our full review of 2021 here: https://growthcatalysts.org/20...ma-awareness-review/
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