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🎙️ New Episode: Healing Trauma, Dismantling Whiteness, and Building Community with David Archer
Welcome back to Empowered Through Compassion. You won’t want to miss this powerful and deeply inspiring episode.
Today, I sit down with David Archer, Today, I sit down with David Archer, the author of Anti-Racist Psychotherapy, an EMDR therapy trainer and complex/racial trauma specialist from Montreal Canada and the founder of Archer Therapy (https://archertherapy.com).
He is a brilliant voice in trauma-informed care, and we explore the vital intersection between personal healing and collective liberation. We dive into what it means to practice trauma-focused care in a way that honors ancestral wisdom, community connection, and cultural context.
Together, we examine the construct of whiteness and white supremacy in America—not just as historical realities, but as living systems that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the land. David invites us to consider how colonization continues not just through land and violence, but through language, ideology, and the very ways we understand healing.
We reflect on how internal healing fuels social change, and how reconnecting with indigenous perspectives and ancestral cycles can lead us to greater joy, justice, and wholeness. As David beautifully shares, healing is not just personal—it’s communal, spiritual, and revolutionary.
David is currently collaborating with Thomas Zimmerman, developer of the Four Blinks approach to Flash. David himself is the creator of the Rhythm and Processing strategy, and together, they’ve developed a groundbreaking presentation:
👉 “Foundations of Trauma-Focused Care” — an experiential training designed to support healing from complex trauma and dissociation.
This innovative approach invites you not only to learn, but to become part of a growing community of healers. Participants engage in real-time practice and biweekly consultation groups—forming a movement toward a more connected, compassionate, and inclusive model of care for the 21st century.
🌱 Join the revolution in mental health.
Visit their site for registration and more information:
You won't want to miss other books by David Archer:
Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma (https://amzn.to/3aYwxSs)
Black Meditation: Ten Practices for Self-Care, Mindfulness, and Self-Determination (https://amzn.to/3JEnhm7)
Racial Trauma Recovery: Healing Our Past Using Rhythm and Processing (https://amzn.to/3C8HY89).
Black Mountain: Fight for the Future (http://amzn.to/3qhKTYP).
Transforming Complex Trauma: Reflections on Anti-Racist Psychotherapy (https://amzn.to/48Wff3r)
