Resources
Places of Healing
Kubota Garden — A free, 20-acre Japanese-inspired garden in south Seattle. Wander, breathe, restore.
Rage Industry — A rage room in north Seattle where you can smash things. Cathartic and surprisingly healing.
Somatic Bodywork - SPRE — Body-centered work in Wallingford that helps release what you're holding.
El Centro de la Raza — A Beacon Hill cultural anchor for community, belonging, and collective care.
Rainbow Lodge Retreat Center — A peaceful retreat space in the Cascades, ideal for rest and reflection.
Visual
Disclosure (2020, Netflix) Trans representation in media, featuring Laverne Cox. Connects to gender identity and cultural narrative work.
The Waiting Room (2012) A quiet, humanizing documentary about people navigating a public hospital.
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) Cultural identity, Black excellence, embodiment, and collective joy.
Stutz (2022) A therapist-client documentary exploring the therapeutic relationship itself, mental health tools, and vulnerability.
Gather (2020) Indigenous food sovereignty and healing as resistance. Connects to intergenerational trauma and reclaiming cultural identity.
Books
My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem. Somatic healing from racialized trauma, by a therapist who focuses on somatic work.
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk. The foundational text on how trauma lives in the body and how we heal it.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Queer BIPOC survival, collective care, and disability justice as a framework for healing.
Pleasure Activism — adrienne maree brown. Healing through joy, pleasure, and liberation.
All About Love — bell hooks. A deeply personal exploration of love as a practice and its role in healing self-worth and relationships.
Local
Sankofa Impact — Place-based history education through immersive journeys and community programs, rooted in collective healing and memory.
UTOPIA Washington — Queer and trans Pacific Islander-led org rooted in South King County community care and healing justice.
API Chaya — Support for South Asian and API survivors of gender-based violence.
Queer The Land — QT2BIPOC collective on Beacon Hill focused on housing, healing, and community self-determination.
MEND Seattle — QTBIPOC-centered low-cost counseling with an anti-oppressive lens.
El Centro de la Raza — Beacon Hill anchor for Latinx and multiracial community life, collective care, and cultural belonging.
Creative
The Nap Ministry: Tricia Hersey's project reframing rest as resistance and reparations for Black and brown communities.
Healing Justice Podcast: Conversations at the intersection of healing and social justice, centering BIPOC practitioners.
Brown Girl Therapy: Instagram community and podcast by Sahaj Kohli for children of immigrants navigating identity and mental health.
Funny You Should Ask zine series: Community-produced mental health zines by and for queer and trans people of color.
Liberate Meditation App: Meditation app by and for the Black community; one of the few BIPOC-centered mindfulness platforms.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”