Values | Whole Care Wellness

Guiding Priciples

“Trauma-informed care is rooted in anti-oppression and anti-racism efforts. It intimately knows that the healing journey is complex, nuanced, and person-specific. It is an accountability practice for professionals that hold space for healing and, more expansively, a culture that we all have a role in shaping and are worthy of. Trauma-informed care prioritizes the lived experiences of survivors, their intersectional identities, and the impact of targeted harm across generations. To be trauma-informed is to know vulnerability in healing and to avoid causing further harm or retraumatization as much as possible. Trauma-informed care celebrates and nourishes the truth that every Being everywhere is their own guru or awo.” — Body Rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma, psy.d Shena J. Young

Every village must be deeply rooted in order to have a strong foundation. Inspired by Dr. Shena J. Young & the National Sexual Violence Resource Centers principles for trauma-informed care, I present to you the essence of Whole Care Wellness. These guiding principles are what drive this space to continue to exist. Take what resonates and hold it close to your heart onward.

Empowerment: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to feel empowered to take an active role in their mental health journey by being provided with the tools, resources, and knowledge they need (and have forgotten) to make informed decisions.

Safety: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to feel safe in their bodies, relationships, and restorative spaces. It’s a process that takes time.

Trust: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve relationships and communities they can trust. Trust is to be earned, watered, and cultivated. Allow your experiences to shape that feeling for the better.

Choices: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to reclaim their freedom of choice. Reconnecting with your intuition and receiving the invitation to do so is a birthright.

Cocreation: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to have an active role in what’s best for the moments on their journeys. It starts with mutual understanding, an open mind, and a listening ear.

Culture: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve a community that understands its limits and biases to avoid causing harm. Your lived experiences and intersectional identities will always be centered in content and recommendations; this is what cultivates competence.

Self-determination: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to decide who and how they want to BE in this world. It is your birthright to make intuitive and informed decisions based on what you need at that moment, even when it doesn’t align with what others think is best for you.

Accessibility: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve support regardless of their location or income. Due to erasure, your livelihood, resources, and knowledge have been hindered; that's changing because of spaces like Whole Care Wellness existing.

Confidentiality: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve sacredness when sharing the adversities of their journey. Whole Care Wellness would NEVER disclose any information shared in confidence without consent; let us show that same love to our peers.

Respect: BIPOC & QTBIPOC deserve to be validated, seen, heard, understood, empathized with and loved. These are basic human rights. It is our responsibility to respect the space, the feedback, our peers, the knowledge, and the ancestors.