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Hello everyone!
I’m taking a moment to say hello and thank you to folks who have recently subscribed to this newsletter. If you’re new here and you’d like to get oriented, this post talks about what structural violence is and how it works.
Structural violence lands on the body, but what do we—we in mental health, in medicine, in healing practices—really mean when we use the word “body”? In my view there are three very different definitions of the body, or “embodiment,” currently being used in these fields, but I rarely see anyone specify which “body” they’re talking about. So this post will clarify the subject by discussing the universal, somatic, and situated definitions of the body. These two pieces are a foundation on which many other posts rest, so they’re worth checking out.
I also want to say thank you to the people who been part of this newsletter community from the beginning. I can’t tell you enough how grateful I am to have you here!
I just finished a big writing project that I’ve been working on in the background, so I’m taking a break this week.
Take good care of yourselves!
xo
Rebecca
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