The world is boiling and we’re out here offering deep breaths & meeting norms like that’s enough. We worked with LA County DPH to train hundreds in actual trauma-informed embodiment. Not just policies. Practice. More of this, please.

Workplaces are under pressure—budget cuts, burnout, anti-DEI backlash, you name it. If your team is already struggling, hoping things will “settle down” isn’t the move. LA County DPH didn’t wait. 656 staff and leaders got trauma-informed for real, building internal safety, collective capacity, and p

We keep hearing: “We’re doing trauma-informed work.” But if your staff are dissociating in meetings and your leaders can’t regulate in a crisis... are you though? LA County DPH got real about the gap—and closed it. lumostransforms.com/ladph

Public health workers are collapsing under systems that demand endless care without offering any. LA County DPH tried something different. They let staff and leadership name the shared trauma. Then they gave them tools to survive it together. Read how it worked →

2025 has been ROUGH for organizers, public health folks, nonprofit teams. But here’s a quiet success story from LA: over 600 public health workers built actual trauma-informed capacity. Not vibes. Not jargon. Real skills. It’s possible. Even now.

The systems we’re up against are coordinated. Our resistance has to be, too. These 15 orgs are weaving care, clarity, and courage into their strategies. We’re learning a lot. And we’re just getting started. 🌀

This isn’t just support. It’s strategy. Each org gets: 🔹 A deep dive in the Resilience Toolkit 🔹 Practice groups to embed the work 🔹 Certification & long-term mentorship. This is what real capacity looks like. 🔗lumostransforms.com/announcing-t...

Too many capacity-building programs focus on performance. This one centers relationship. Whole teams. Real tools. Room to feel. And a pathway to integrate it all. Here’s what’s happening inside: lumostransforms.com/announcing-t...

These orgs are led by trans people, disabled people, Black and brown folks, immigrants, survivors. They’re pushing back against burnout, scarcity, and systemic harm. We’re resourcing them for the long haul. 📍

We said: let’s design a program for rights orgs that centers healing, sustainability, and collective care. They said: finally. Meet the orgs who said yes—and what they’re doing with that yes. 🧵

When I’ve highlighted the madness of MAHA, I’ve always tried to also emphasize its evils. The indifference to human suffering, the disdain and even hatred for the neurodivergent.

🎉 Meet the cohort. 15 justice-driven orgs across the U.K.—from mutual aid networks to legal clinics to survivor-led collectives—are diving deep into embodied resilience. They’re not waiting for change. They’re building it. 🔗

If you’re a therapist, coach, healer, etc… this is where your clients need to start. It gives them tools to regulate so they don’t get retraumatized by the deeper work. Also the first step if you want to get certified in The Resilience Toolkit. lumostransforms.com/survival

Most people dive into trauma healing, skipping the part where they actually learn how to stabilize.

Imagine if your entire org knew how to: 💠 Sustain itself through conflict 💠 Work across difference 💠 Stay grounded in crisis 💠 Keep dreaming of freedom That’s what we’re building. Here’s how it’s going so far:

Some funders say they understand the need for healing and resilience in movement spaces. But when it’s time to invest? Crickets. 🦗 Meanwhile, UK funders are saying: “We see the writing on the wall. We need to do this now.” Full reflections:

You ever see someone crash out, then launch back into chaos like nothing happened? Most people aren’t lazy or dramatic—they’re dysregulated.

The work of justice isn’t just strategic—it’s embodied. No movement can survive if its people are exhausted, disconnected, or afraid to dream. This is why we’re resourcing rights orgs in the U.K. for resilience. Here’s what we’re learning:

Some people can’t relax even when things are “fine.” Their body’s still braced, waiting for the next blow-up. It’s not a mindset problem. It’s a nervous system issue. There’s a class for that.1

Rights orgs aren’t just burned out—they’re under attack. Austerity has become authoritarianism. We launched a program to help orgs withstand and reimagine. What we’ve seen so far is urgent, sobering, and deeply hopeful. 📍First reflections:

📣 Abolition. Reproductive Justice. Disability Rights. Indigenous Sovereignty. Climate Justice. 22 orgs across the U.K. applied to a new resilience-centered program for rights work. What we learned from them—and what it means for all of us—is in our first report. 🔗

From Survival to Stability. 3 Thursdays: May 15, 22, 29. 12–2pm PT / 3–5pm ET / 7–9pm UTC. Sliding scale down to $0. No story-sharing required. Just simple tools for getting out of chaos. lumostransforms.com/survival

“We don’t have the luxury of waiting. Waiting is creating its own reality.” Why a trauma-informed capacity-building program for UK rights orgs couldn’t wait—and what the U.S. funding world could learn from it. 🧵First reflections from Lumos:

"Dissociation saved my life. But do I need to be dissociated as much as I needed to when I was going through trauma? The answer is no.” Check out Nkem's interview with PiZetta media for more!

If survival mode has become your baseline, that’s not a failure. It’s your body doing what it had to. And there are ways to shift it. lumostransforms.com/survival-to-...

Healing trauma isn’t just personal. It’s political, cultural, spiritual. It’s how we stop carrying what was never ours to hold alone. That's why we do it in community!

TFW your nervous system finally realizes it’s safe enough to feel. 🥹

If you want a clear map of how trauma healing actually works, we’d love to share one. Roadmap to Trauma Healing is a free live session. Next one is Tuesday 4/29!

Our culture teaches us to avoid discomfort at all costs. But healing asks us to do the opposite: to stay with what’s hard, without turning away. A lot of people need help re-learning this innate skill.

Numbness isn’t always apathy. Sometimes it’s the body doing its best to keep us from drowning in what we’ve never been safe enough to feel.

A lot of us are carrying so much grief and fear under the surface that it feels dangerous to slow down and feel it. So we stay busy, hyper-functional, managing everyone else’s needs while quietly bracing for the next thing.

People are struggling under relentless pressure—stuck in survival mode, unable to organize, resist, or imagine something better. We need body-based tools for self-regulation to get people out of freeze.

They’re counting on your collapse.

From Lumos Transforms: “But we don’t need another great leader. We need leaderfulness—a movement of people who recognize their own power and take action, no matter how small those actions may seem.”❤️‍🔥💐💗 @lumostransforms.bsky.social ✨ lumostransforms.com/weve-seen-th...

Don't waste your energy explaining why DEI is beneficial. The opposition isn’t about policy—it’s about power. They aren’t debating merit; they’re rejecting the idea that Black people belong in positions of leadership and influence.

If you feel frozen or hopeless, tend to your body first. Find steadiness so that you can respond with clarity, not collapse.

Overwhelm is the goal of these tactics. We need to settle our nervous systems—not to disengage, but to sharpen our perception and sustain our ability to act. Here's how: lumostransforms.com/survival-to-...

We don’t need one person to fix this. We need many people stepping into their own capacity to act, however small those actions may seem.

Stress and trauma push people into black-and-white thinking—either you’re a movement leader or you’re nobody. This keeps people from seeing the power they already have.

Frozen? 🥶 If you're paralyzed with overwhelm right now, you may need a little help to unthaw so you can ACT and stay in ACTION. We need you and we are here for you. lumostransforms.com/individuals-...

DEI is right work. Rolling it back is harm.

Activism and healing work are deeply connected. We need trauma-informed tools in our movements in order for people to be able to stay in the work.

What tools are you bringing to your community to navigate what’s ahead?

Just 10 days in. How will you get your people through? lumostransforms.com/survival-to-...

"...freeze isn’t apathy—it’s overwhelm." @nkem-ndefo.bsky.social www.sheknows.com/health-and-w...

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

Free session this weekend. Most of our staff is LA based so there will definitely be space held for folks navigating wildfire aftermath. lumostransforms.com/individuals-...

everything is pretty bad and it's going to get worse and I think we need to remember to give ourselves license to post about silly things too losing our minds to despair isn't going to do any of us any good

Smoke activates primal defense responses. Remember to leave lots of grace for irritability and distractibility. Per @nkem-ndefo.bsky.social.