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Appreciate this podcast? Then please, help us reach our goal of 7,000 pre-orders for Secure Relating, Holding Your Own in an Insecure World. Click here to learn more about the conference!!Discomfort is a necessary part of liberating ourselves from patriarchal and white supremacist ideologyArt by Nisha K. SethiThis is part two of a two-part series with the founder of Inclusive Therapists, Melody and TU Co-host, Sue Marriott. This episode features challenging yet important conversations on active anti-racist practices, exploration of oppression, and dismantling whiteness in mental health structures. Melody emphasizes the need for white clinicians to examine their own complicity in upholding oppressive systems and to listen to and center the experiences of marginalized communities. They also highlight the interconnectedness of healing and the power of collective liberation through rehumanizing.“…if I uphold a system that I know is dehumanizing someone, I become less human myself.” – Melody Li, LMFT (they/佢)About our Guest – Melody Li, LMFT (they/佢) Melody Li, LMFT (they/佢) is the founder of Inclusive Therapists: a mental health directory, resource hub & community centering marginalized communities. They also founded Mental Health Liberation, a non-profit bridging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with free, quality therapy, and empowering Students & Clinicians of Color. Their activism focuses on decolonizing mental health care and dismantling the industrial complex. The colony-born migrant and settler on Turtle Island advocates for Landback, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Black Liberation as a priority.Time Stamps for Decolonizing the Mental Health System (Part 2)8:20 – Understanding cis-gender identity 15:34 – How white feminism can be exclusionary 17:06 – Dismantling whiteness from the mental health field Resources for today’s episode – Decolonizing the Mental Health System (Part 2)Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire – Literature recommendation by Melody LiMelody Li’s Website Melody Li’s Instagram ProfileInclusive Therapists Resource LibraryOpen Letter: End Mental Health Field’s Complicity to GenocideSteadfast for Collective Liberation Newsletter: Confronting our Bullshit & ToxicityPalestinian Liberation: Lessons in Solidarity for Mental Health ProvidersPalestinian Liberation ResourcesWhen is exploring whiteness clinically relevant? (Melody Li, LMFT)Dismantling whiteness, white feminism and supremacy delusion: resources by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (Li advised against buying white authors on this subject)Decolonizing Therapy (Dr. Jenn Mullan)Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being (Hussein A. Bulhan)All psychologies are indigenous psychologies: Reflections on psychology in a global era (Anthony J. Marsella)Mental Health Liberation: Website | Instagram | Facebook | BIPOC Therapy Fund | Liberatory Student Support CircleInclusive Therapists: Website | Instagram | FacebookDon’t forget to register for the May 2024 Conference! Plus there is a whole weekend of fun built around it – Click here!! Questions? Email us at info@TherapistUncensored.comCheck out our Sponsors Get 15% off your first OneSkin purchase using the code TU when you checkout at oneskin.co Go to Zocdoc.com/TU Check out Athletic Greens!!