Lauren Pedersen (she/her) on Clubhouse

Bio

🌎Systems Thinker • ⛑ Licensed Trauma Therapist • 🧱Community Builder • 🤲🏼Mentor • 🦄Badass Boss • 🥾Patriarchy Smasher • 👩🏼‍🦳Oma • 👩🏻‍🏫Professor

A fierce human 🌈 with a bunch of titles and creds and a habit of keeping 💩 real no matter what I’m doing or who I’m in community with.

My current exploration of personal growth and expansion is about the reclamation of my whyteness 🤍and ancestry so that I can be a better intersectional ally and 🚫-racist.

I’ve survived and am thriving through trauma, addiction and depression because of the privileges I have been afforded as a white cis able-bodied woman.

🌀My life’s work is guided by these principles:
🌟I use my power and privilege to build communities of understanding and compassion;
🌟I provide high-quality intersectional mental health service and clinical training
🌟Through my work and interpersonal interactions I reduce stigma associated with mental illness and addiction.
🌟All forms of trauma are very real and everyone deserves the opportunity to heal from their trauma

〰️other jams〰️
▪️crystals and making jewelry
▫️animal rescue (in particular National Great Pyrenees Rescue, with whom I volunteer)
▪️meditation & mindfulness practice
▫️cooking
▪️eating & preserving what my garden produces
▫️cannabis
▪️making more space for self care
▫️supporting small BIPOC and women owned businesses
▪️making cool stuff with essential oils