Trina joins Next Question with Katie Couric and shares the importance of Parenting for Liberation in this moment of multiple pandemics of COVID-19 and racial violence, and how Black families can return to healing through community and ancestral ways towards wholeness and liberation. "It has been a brutal year. Not only for the loss, heartache … Continue reading “When trauma is shared: How to heal together”
Category: Grief
Parenting for Liberation is honored to co-host a Grief Circle with Spiritual Alchemy. "As Black parents in the Americas, we are no stranger to harm to our communities and the killing of our children at the hands of law enforcement or vigilantes. However, what has sustained us is our ability to gather in community to … Continue reading Community Care: Grief Circle
“Black mothers require these healing resources because of the pre-existing disparities in access to both physical and mental health resources, coupled with the added pressures of round-the-clock caregiving, financial uncertainty, school closures, and social isolation that is uniquely impacting Black mothers,” - Trina Greene Brown Please read this important piece by A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez #freeblackmotherhood Read … Continue reading The unbearable grief of Black mothers
Yesterday while I was still reeling from the fact that George Floyd, yet another loved one , has been taken by an act of police cruelty, my soul brother Eric Darnell Pritchard began sharing this poem as a resource. I wrote this poem in 2014 and first shared it at the BOLD national gathering as … Continue reading Coming Back to Breath
They say grief is like an ocean. Well on January 14, 2020, a volcano erupted under the waters of my heart causing a tsunami of grief for me when my daddy passed away unexpectedly. My dad, so full of life, my number one supporter, always rocking his Parenting for Liberation shirt was gone from this … Continue reading Note from Trina: Parenting & Leading with a Grieving Heart
