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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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Collapse is asking a lot of us. We’re being stretc Collapse is asking a lot of us. We’re being stretched, compressed, moved, devastated, deranged, and rearranged. We’re being shaped and reshaped. What if we practiced mutating on purpose, with purpose, instead of letting pressure decide for us? What if we become something we didn’t know we could be? In my groups this week, we practiced becoming earthworms. We explored what it means to be with the grotesque—to be grotesque. We placed our Punisher Parts on our altars and made offerings. In each of these spaces, we practiced being intimate with collapse, with each other, in the Long Dark. We practiced becoming something we don’t recognize, a species we don’t yet know. Whatever, whoever, is emerging needs care, curiosity, and each other. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️
Every day I see more people joining the conversati Every day I see more people joining the conversation about collapse, starting to come to terms with what we’re facing in the decades to come. As someone who’s been practicing collapse psychology, studying polycrisis, and facilitating circles about the Long Dark for over a decade, it’s thrilling, unsettling, less lonely, annoying, tender, and heartening. One of the ways we work with collapse in my groups is through somatic practice, exploring collapse and emergence in our bodies. We practice what it means to let go, come undone, and then (perhaps) rise again. We learn skills for collapsing together: slowly, quickly, tenderly, fiercely. We learn how to support each other in the depths. If you’re newer to the collapse conversation, the largest and most necessary conversation of our times, WELCOME. There are collapse-aware spaces that center relational support. I hope you find the elders, communities, and beings who can accompany you with steadiness and care. As I share in one of these slides: We can practice consciously collapsing. We can practice supporting those who are in the deepest, darkest depths of the underworld. We can listen to those who know this terrain by heart. Let’s listen to those who’ve been experiencing collapse for generations. Let’s listen to the land and our bodies. Let’s listen to the beyond-human beings. And let’s remember that while we don’t have a choice in collective collapse happening—it’s happpening—we do have a choice in how we meet it. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️
THE HEART IS A FRONTLINE: Politicized Grief Ritual THE HEART IS A FRONTLINE: Politicized Grief Ritual Leadership Training We need cultural workers and community leaders who can hold grief, holy outrage, complexity, and contradiction with tenderness and strength. The Heart is a Frontline: Politicized Grief Ritual Leadership Training is an offering for those called to meet these times with both heart and rigor. This training weaves grief ritual practice, somatic awareness, creative exercises, and political analysis to support the tending of collective grief without collapsing into burnout, bypass, or punishment. Together, we practice holding communal containers rooted in dignity and belonging while engaging questions of power, supremacy, cultural loss, soul severance, and rupture and repair. Led by a team of badass women and non-binary facilitators grounded in liberatory praxis and depth psychology, this training is a call toward resisting empire without surrendering our humanity. This is a call toward becoming the kind of adults, elders, and soul activists these times require. INFORMATION When: March - November 2026 Co-Facilitators: @tajahsahar @thishallowedwilderness @jessi_rado_ @hollytruhlar Guest Guides: @queerquechua @imlikenlichen & Francis Weller Applications are now open with more info on our landing page. *The title “the heart is a front line…” is drawn from adrienne maree brown’s poem Spell for Grief or Letting Go, and used with her permission.
“…it’s decolonization or extinction.” —The Red Cam “…it’s decolonization or extinction.” —The Red Camp The overculture, the dominating cult-ure of Empire, is based on systems of supremacy and soul severance. It is violent and unsustainable. If we care about Life, about the young ones and Future Generations, about women, the Dreaming Earth, and those most vulnerable, then we must change what we celebrate, why we gather, and how we respond. Wrapping a “holiday” that is historically and presently rooted in genocide and land theft in a veneer of gratitude is grotesque. It is a distortion of remembrance and an erasure of violence. What we need instead is an honest, shared remembering of what has happened, the brutality, the displacement, the ongoing harm. We need rituals of repair. We need to stop pretending this desecration, this way of “life,” is okay or tolerable. We must embody resistance to Empire as Indigenous lives have done since the beginning of colonization. We must recognize that there is no safety inside a system built on supremacy. This means participating in tax strikes, labor strikes, and the BDS movement. It means practicing true reciprocity with the land. It means direct actions and land back. It means imagining and co-creating a world led by Indigenous and Black movements, by those most impacted and targeted in these systems of severance. If we are outraged by the Epstein files, that same fire must extend to murdered and missing Indigenous women. If we are devastated by what is happening in Palestine, that heartbreak must also reckon with the genocide committed on Turtle Island and still unfolding here. If we say we are grieving and doing cultural repair work, then we must be honest about the magnitude of the rupture and the layers that require tending. We must become more skillful, more relational with these wounds, more courageous with our witnessing and actions. May those most violated by Empire be held, protected, and honored today and every day. May those who remain complacent feel the weight of the Land’s grief, and may the Ancestors call them toward accountability. May we each do our share of revealing, repairing, resisting, and re-imagining the world. And so it is. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️
Join us this Sunday for a 1-hour Sorrows of the Wo Join us this Sunday for a 1-hour Sorrows of the World Vigil. We will slow down, come home to our bodies, light candles, and share our griefs. All grief is welcome. The intimate and the immeasurable. The personal, the communal, the planetary. The griefs carried across generations and the griefs of right now. Feeling our grief helps us meet these times of unraveling with tenderness and courage. It tells us who we love and what we want to protect. Come join us in the commons of the heart. Donations are welcome but not necessary. All donations will go directly to support a P*lest*nian living in G*za. OVERVIEW: Co-Facilitators: Naila Francis @thishallowedwilderness and Holly Truhlar @hollytruhlar Date and Time: Sunday, November 23rd 9-10am PST / 10-11am MST / 12-1pm EST Where: Zoom (not recorded), register via E*entBr!te *Candles encouraged, all grief is welcome. . . . #GriefSupport #Vigil #GatesOfGrief #CollectiveGrief #ClimatePsychology #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #TraumaInformed #SoulWork #TheFutureIsDisabled #Undrowned #AlexisPaulineGumbs #WendyElishevaSomerson #LeahLakshmiPiepznaSamarasinha #LeaMorris
MAY WE STAY SOFT ENOUGH: RESISTING THE DEHUMANIZAT MAY WE STAY SOFT ENOUGH: RESISTING THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ZIONISM | Saturdays, November 1st & 8th May We Stay Soft Enough is an invitation to examine and reimagine our politics of resistance. Can we resist zionism without losing our humanity? How can we stay soft in the face of widespread dehumanization? How do we hold the heartbreak and betrayal of friends and colleagues who stay silent, look away, or align themselves with genocide? When is our rage sacred, and when is it a replication of imperial violence? Join Holly Truhlar and Sarah J.S. for a two-part participatory workshop and exploration of embodied anti-zionism. Over two 2.5-hour sessions, we will explore how zionism shapes our relationships, and strengthen our ability to hold another person’s humanity, even if they deny ours. This is a space to feel our feelings, explore our responses to zionism, and consider the challenges we face within our communities and movement spaces as we cultivate pathways toward collective liberation. OVERVIEW: Co-Facilitators: @WorkWithSarahJS and @HollyTruhlar Dates & Times: Nov 1st & 8th, 1:00 - 3:30pm ET Where: Zoom (partially recorded), register via E*entBr!te Note: We do not expect people directly experiencing genocide to “stay soft.” We are not discouraging resistance, self-defense, or holy outrage. Rather, this offering is for those whose calling in this moment is to practice staying open while standing firmly for a Free Palestine. It’s a space for grievers, organizers, healers, activists, and allies who want to expand their capacity to hold complexity, compassion, and rage, alongside a place of welcome for anyone who might join the movement toward collective liberation. . . . #GriefSupport #SoulWork #CollectiveLiberation #EmergentStrategy #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #CollapsePsychology #SoulActivism
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