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While my home-base is in Colorado—on the stolen, ancestral lands of the Arapaho, Ute, and Cheyenne tribes—I work with people and communities across the Dreaming Earth. You can send me a digital howl using the button below or by emailing support@hollytruhlar.com. If you want to know about upcoming workshops, groups, and in-person events sign up for my newsletter below, connect with me on instagram, check out my substack, or explore my Events & Offerings page.

 

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As someone who’s survived sibling loss twice, a As someone who’s survived sibling loss twice, a violent near-death experience, and years of leftist activism, I never expected to be writing about love and alchemy. It can seem kind of out of touch when devastation is permeating our lives. But after years of practicing collapse skills, grief tending, and cultural repair, I can say with some solidity: something deeper is stirring in this time of collapse. This is an excerpt from my most recent essay, titled Because Everything I Love is Disappearing: Tending Grief, Collapse, and the Work of Repair at the End of Empire. I wrote it in response to the despair so many are feeling right now. It’s also a tribute to my sister Ivy, who died six years ago. She would be 45. She never made it to 40. We never got to be in our 40s together, and I’ll never get over that. Ivy was a neuroqueer artist and poet who was chronically ill and disabled. She was a weaver of fiber and words. I carry her in every group I facilitate, every word I write, every ritual I steward. She’s a big part of why I deepened into collective grief tending and collapse psychology. Right now, as many honor the lives of Andrea Gibson and Joanna Macy (and I’m so glad they are), I’m also honoring Ivy. Her life was just as sacred. She’s just as important. All our Mighty Ancestors are. And she is mine, and I am hers. Ivy and Holly. Read the full essay on my Substack. Check the portal in my bio. . . . #SiblingLoss #Collapse #Polycrisis #ClimatePsychology #ColapsePsychology #GriefRitual #Grief #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #Bereavement #AndreaGibson #JoannaMacy #TheWorkThatReconnects #AncestralMedicine #CulturalRepair
Dear Soul Activists, Liberationists, and Heart-ful Dear Soul Activists, Liberationists, and Heart-full Humans, We’re feeling the pull to gather, not around a fixed agenda or polished plan, but around a shared field of grief, soul, and liberation. A place where we can listen to what is breaking, and what might be breaking through. We’re calling this space UN/KNOWN because we truly don’t know what it will be. And because, in times like these, not knowing is a worthwhile practice and form of devotion. But it’s also about something else, something tender and courageous. The aching human desire to be deeply known: in our longings, in our wildness and weariness, in our pain, and in our hope. We want to practice both: the humility of not knowing, and the radical act of allowing ourselves to be known. This will be a 2-day, in-person gathering at Lone Hawk Farm in Longmont, Colorado (August 16–17, 2025). It is non-residential. We’ll provide water and snacks, you’ll bring your own lunch. We’ll meet from 9:30am to 5:00pm, surrounded by land, open air, and each other. We’ll create shared altars. We’ll grieve, rest, breathe, and move together. We’ll likely explore the Long Dark, collapse, grief, soul, beauty, and creativity. We’ll let conversation, ritual, and connection arise organically. There will be some facilitation, but it’s not a planned workshop or ritual. There will be some structure, but no real agenda. This is a space to practice emergence, co-creation, collaboration, discomfort, and belonging. Before we commit to hosting this event, we’re asking: Is there enough interest? If at least 20 people express a clear desire and ability to attend, we will move forward with the gathering. So if you’re feeling the call, please take a few minutes to fill out our interest form. While filling out this form is not a commitment to attend, please only fill out this “interest and application form” if you’re seriously considering coming. This space will not center ease or certainty, but it will invite what’s emergent, honest, and tender. Come play with us! More info you know where. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #GriefRitual #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #EmergentStrategy #Polycrisis #ClimatePsychology #SoulWork #CollectiveLiberation
Hello Friends, I’ve been reflecting on this day Hello Friends, I’ve been reflecting on this day, Juneteenth, and what it asks of us. Particularly, for me as a white middle-aged donkey-lady(ish) living in the belly of empire. I’m someone who’s benefited from systems that stole lives and freedom, delayed justice, and still deny both. And I’m reminded that remembrance alone is not enough. As most of you know, Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when news of and support for emancipation finally reached enslaved Black people in Texas, more than two years after it was legally declared. This wasn’t an accidental delay in information. It was an intentional act of suppression. A strategy of deceit and silence, requiring the cooperation and complicity of many white people. The ruling class has always benefited from keeping people disconnected from each other, from truth, and from our grief. And that hasn’t changed. So today, let’s keep feeling our holy outrage, our grief, our aliveness. Let’s speak the truth. Let’s name what’s happening. And let’s move resources back into Black communities. If you have access to money, time, platforms, or networks, please redistribute. Especially to Black leaders, artists, organizers, and community-rooted projects. Here are a few I trust and learn from deeply. FOLLOW & SUPPORT: @thejuliamallory @thishallowedwilderness @toimarie @desireeadaway *This is not an exhaustive list. I’m intentionally highlighting Black leaders I know and trust who have under 100k followers and are doing deep, community-rooted work. SEND MONEY TO: @tenohsixstudio — a Black grief and creativity space rooted in community, led by Julia Mallory @lovingblacksinglemothers — an ecosystem of care and liberation for Black single mothers, founded by Toi Smith Let’s be people who refuse to keep quiet about supremacy and domination. Let’s choose collective liberation over comfort. Let’s tend the wounds of history by showing up now with our full hearts and our tangible support. In grief and solidarity, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #Juneteenth #CollectiveLiberation #PoliticizedGrief #EmergentStrategy
Grief is dangerous to empire. Because if we truly Grief is dangerous to empire. Because if we truly felt the heartbreak of disconnection, supremacy, genocide, ancestral harm, and ecological collapse, we would break out of the numbness and the spell of domination would begin to dissolve. Join us for “Tending Revolution: Grief Tending Toward Collective Liberation,” a three-month Soulful Life series (July–September 2025). Through somatic practices, writing, storytelling, imagination, and ritual, we’ll root ourselves in grief as a sacred, political, and relational force. A force that remembers, resists, and repairs. TENDING REVOLUTION: GRIEF TENDING TOWARD COLLECTIVE LIBERATION Dates: Wednesdays, July - September 2025 Time: 12:30-2:00pm PDT / 1:30 - 3:00 MDT Where: Mighty Networks and Zoom Guest Guides: @desireeadaway, Naila Francis - @thishallowedwilderness, Sarah JS - @workwithsarahjs, Jordan Lyons, Francis Weller Facilitated By: Holly Truhlar . . . #SoulfulLife #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #EmergentStrategy #CollectiveLiberation #FrancisWeller #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #Polycrisis #GriefTending #SoulWork #GriefSupport
There’s no doubt collapse is intensifying. The s There’s no doubt collapse is intensifying. The sorrow, the violence, the unraveling, it’s a lot to hold, and we cannot do it alone. I’m only slightly okay because I have deep grief practices. Because I’ve fallen apart so many times, I’ve learned how to consciously collapse and slowly come back together. I know now who to call on when I’m drowning in sorrow—both human-kin and beyond. People often ask me how to merge grief work with activism. At this point, I mostly say: Just do it. Include it. Make space for it. Be brave. Bring your altar items to meetings. Start with heart-centered check-ins. Turn your protest signs into grief statements. Hold vigils every week. Say what hurts. Say what matters. Say: We’re grieving. What we’re seeing in the streets is grief and holy outrage in action. Deep gratitude to each of you showing up for these times. Be safe out there friends. In grief & solidarity, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #SoulActivism #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #WeRise #Polycrisis #GriefSupport #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #GriefRitual #SoulWork #CollectiveLiberation #EmergentStrategy #FreePalestine
We need to keep connecting the dots. From Gaza to We need to keep connecting the dots. From Gaza to Los Angeles, from Zionist genocide to ICE raids fueled by fascism, this is all part of the same empire of violence. But the resistance is interconnected too. The people are rising. Refusing annihilation by billionaire warmongers. We’re choosing each other. We are connected by a long lineage of liberation movements that have never stopped burning, and will stay lit for Future Generations. Thank you to the Palestinian people for your decades-long resistance, your courage, your refusal to be disappeared. Thank you to all Indigenous people who have been in this fight for far too long. Thank you to those aboard the Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla. Thank you to every soul rising against ICE and empire. Thank you to every person who’s been speaking out against this genocide for months or years. Courage is contagious. We need everyone to rise up. We need your voice, your heart, your grief, your holy outrage. Bring your warmth and light to the fire. Free Palestine. Protect the @gazafreedomflotilla Always Together, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #CollectiveLiberation #EmergentStrategy #SoulActivism #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #PoliticizedGrief #SoulWork #Polycrisis #FreePalestine #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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