Beginings
Mishara is an adventurer since childhood, trauma worker since youth & therapist for almost a decade. Her life experiences include seperating from a multi-generational "faith-based” family cult at age 18, which influenced her commitment to whole community healing through self awareness, self accountability and self compassion. She continued that work through curiosity and deep faith in individuals / communities and their ancestors as experts on their own healing.
Curiousity
As a multi-faceted Black Healer and retired licensed mental health therapist for almost a decade, she examines healing systems with questions such as:
“If the point of healthcare is restoration / recovery...but the European founders of psychology, social work and therapy had never seen safe thriving BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ or spiritually diverse folk as a wellness standard
- what exactly are we restoring BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ & spiritually diverse folks to?
And what in the world is happening internally to our healing professionals in these systems? Who looks out for their mental wellness thriving?”
Contribution
As Black Woman, lover of culture and land Mishara reminds us our ancestors were already mental health experts- before colonial trauma and this care was sustainable, accessible and affordable - with no one falling between the cracks because it was communal.
Collaboratively she creates whole hood, whole city, whole society healing models that encourage communtiies to take up space to gather, play, feel and heal as sustainable alternatives to individual only therapy.
““I wonder, what’s the point of getting better, if everyone we work with, love & connect to is sick?
What’s the point of mental health care if it doesn’t include folks like your cousins, your Mama or your Dad?
And what are we going to do when we run out of [particularly] Black, Brown and Indigenous to the land therapists, covered insurance payments and younger psychology students willing to learn European American healing mindsets?
We deserve healing models that support where we’ve been as a society and where we’re going as we grow together. “ ”
Mishara believes bodies remember healing experiences, just like they remember harm. Playfully & creatively she invites all community members to engage in their own daily mental wellness, education and communal support alongside fellow decendants of mental health expert ancests like you.