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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 a digital howl using the button below or by emailing HollyTruhlar@gmail.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, or explore my Events & Offerings page.

 

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Hello griefy-spicies 💧🩵🌶️. I’m intere Hello griefy-spicies 💧🩵🌶️. I’m interested in some of these deeper questions about how we prepare together with tenderness and intention. I’ve been in some collapse groups over the years, and they lacked praxis regarding community care and conflict tending, generally being overly self/family-centered and ultimately causing harm. I’ll be sharing more posts in the coming weeks that root into some of these inquiries about gathering in safer ways, tending to communal grief, and centering collective care over individual comfort. A note on collective care: When I speak and write about this, I’m embracing both human and beyond-human kin. Our plant and animal relatives are experiencing these cascading crises alongside us—from climate chaos to ecocide to bird flu. Their well-being is inseparable from our own. For those wanting to explore this together, join us this Tuesday evening in UNRAVEL | ENTANGLE where we’ll be talking about “Preparing for Bird Flu: Preparation as an Act of Love.” We’ll share practical information—what we know, what we don’t know, how we’re preparing—while holding space for our grief and uncertainty, weaving together resourcing practices and communal inquiry. These times ask so much of us. Let’s meet them together, with care. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #Polycrisis #CommunityBuilding #EmergentStrategy #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #UnravelEntangle #TheWorkThatReconnects #DeepAdaptation #CollectiveGrief #GriefSupport #SoulfulLife #MutualAid
Between grief and possibility, between unraveling Between grief and possibility, between unraveling and weaving anew—I’m moved to share my latest newsletter filled with offerings for the months ahead. UPCOMING GATHERINGS: UNRAVEL | ENTANGLE: Weekly conversations about collapse (Tuesdays) Love During the Long Dark: In-person gathering at Lyons Library (Feb 20) Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware with Francis Weller (March-June) Soulful Life Convivium’s new series “Devotions to the Long Dark” (April-June) In-person 3-day grief rituals in Colorado and Washington TENDERS: Hide Tanning & Grief Tending Retreat (July 15-19 in Evergreen) Quick update: I’m (likely) transitioning my newsletter to Substack—that’ll be the best place to sign up moving forward, though I’m working to migrate existing subscribers from my website. Thank you for your patience as I navigate this shift. You know where to go to read the full newsletter and join any offerings that call to you. Would love to be in practice with y’all. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #GriefSupport #GriefRitual #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #FrancisWeller #KaiChengThom #DesireeAdaway #EmilyRhaeSwanson #JessiRado #BJYamDwyer #MarissaSieck #EmergentStrategy #TheLongDark #CommunityBuilding #SoulfulLife #HideTanning #GriefTending
UNRAVEL | ENTANGLE: Not-So-Curated Conversations a UNRAVEL | ENTANGLE: Not-So-Curated Conversations about Collapse Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, February 18th, as we explore: What questions do we have about collapse? What inquiries can help guide us through the Long Dark? What is our question underneath the question? What are the collapse questions we’re most afraid to ask? In the weeks to come we’ll be practicing with some of the questions that come from our collective wondering. All are welcome, whether you’re collapse-obsessed, collapse-aware, or just collapse-curious. We have four simple agreements for each session that center on two core principles: fostering relationship and belonging, while embracing complexity together. DETAILS 🕒 Tuesdays, 5:30-6:45pm PST 💻 Via Zoom 👯‍♀️ With @hollytruhlar & @imlikenlichen 🌈 Register on eventbrite Also, as a heads up, given y’alls responses to my last post, next week, Tuesday, February 25th, we’ll likely be exploring “Preparing for the Bird Flu: Preparation is an Act of Love.” We’ll do a resourcing somatic practice, share some info, make space for questions, and do a little prepping together. For now, you have to register for each week separately. Soon we’ll be housing these session links and resources in their own network. Thanks for sticking with us as we see how this experiment wants to unfold. . . . #CollapsePyschology #ClimatePsychology #Polycrisis #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #TheLongDark #SoulWork #WhatIfWeGetItRight #EmergentStrategy #TheWorkThatReconnects #CollapseAware #TelepathyTapes #SoulfulLife #BayoAkomolafe #AdrienneMareeBrown #EmilyRhaeSwanson #HollyTruhlar #UnravelEntangle
Hello dear ones. As a collapse psychologist, I fee Hello dear ones. As a collapse psychologist, I feel a deep responsibility to share this information even though it’s a total vibe killer. I genuinely don’t want to be reporting on this but it seems necessary now. I’m saddened to share, I believe bird flu (H5N1) is going to trigger another pandemic, widespread disruptions, and possible lockdown this year. I can’t say for certain—no one can—but the signs are deeply concerning, particularly the virus possibly achieving human to human (H2H) transmission & mutating in unpredicted ways. I’m sharing this not to stoke fear or be dramatic, but to help us prepare with care. When we prepare together, we build resilience & lower our shared risks. None of us have to face this alone. This information is drawn from Sharon Astyk’s analysis (deep gratitude to Sharon for her impeccable pattern tracking and information sharing), CDC reports, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, & farm progress reports. Needless to say, popular media is not reporting on this accurately and, as a result, people are going to be massively under-prepared AGAIN. In late December 2019, my partner at the time and I started tracking COVID-19 closely. By January 2020 we knew a pandemic was coming/here and planned accordingly. I stopped my lease and moved into their house, we made needed medical appointments, gathered some supplies, and tailored our professional work to being mostly at home. It made things a lot smoother for us in the beginning of the pandemic. I wish this for everyone who’s working toward collective liberation. Preparation isn’t about panic—it’s about love. It’s about holding each other close in hard times. Let’s imagine and practice how we can meet this moment with courage, care, and collective wisdom. Please share any information or preparation tips you may have. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ PS: If I’m wrong, let us all rejoice but also continue to take care of the most vulnerable and continue to take COVID seriously. . . . #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #Polycrisis #CommunityBuilding #EmergentStrategy #HowToSurviveTheEndOfTheWorld #CollectiveGrief #GriefSupport #SoulfulLife #MutualAid #SharonAstyk #DoNotLickWildBirds
Hello Beloveds, If you’re a collapse-aware bad Hello Beloveds, If you’re a collapse-aware baddie, today I send you love. If you’re a soul activist, today I send you love. If you’re a donkey or mule, today I send you love. If you’re a poet, today I send you love. If you’re someone trying to build an underculture of belonging, today I send you love. If you’re someone who’s cultivating love wider and wilder than the norm, today I send you BIG love. If you’re a griever, today I send you BIG HUGE love. May this be felt today and every day. 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ If you’re living near Lyons, Colorado and want to spend some time together, next Thursday evening I’m co-facilitating a workshop called “Love during the Long Dark: A 2-hour Gathering Around Grief & Love.” This is our second annual love & grief gathering for the Bread & Poetry series, we’ll be exploring the Long Dark—this time of profound collective unraveling that calls us to become more intimate with both loss and love. Together we’ll explore the nature of the Long Dark and what it asks of us, engage in poetry and writing practices, discover how grief and love shape one another, and join in a communal micro-ritual with sculpting and song. During this gathering, we’ll touch on Francis Weller’s gates of grief, including personal losses and the sorrows of the world, revealing how they can become medicine for the Long Dark. Come be part of this soulful space where we’ll hold both the heartbreak and beauty of these times. DETAILS FACILITATORS: Holly Truhlar & Elizabeth Marglin DATE: Thursday, February 20th TIME: 6:00pm - 8:00pm MST LOCATION: Lyons Library Praise to @rosemerry.trommer for the poem “Letter to Others in the Dark” that is quoted on the first two slides. ✨🙏🏻🩵 . . . #BreadAndPoetry #LyonsColorado #Lyons #TheLongDark #FrancisWeller #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #GriefAndLove #GriefSupport #CollapsePsychology #ClimatePsychology #GriefRitual #ElizabethMarglin #PraiseThePoets #SoulWork #SoulfulLife
Last week in Unravel | Entangle, we oriented ourse Last week in Unravel | Entangle, we oriented ourselves to collapse and shared stories of how we’re currently orienting to the Long Dark. Tonight, we’ll trace our paths into collapse awareness. Of course, many people, particularly those exploited and oppressed by systems of domination, were born into collapse—their lived experience deeply intertwined with the planetary unraveling. Others remember specific moments when the polycrisis came into sharp focus, while some of us moved along a gradual path of growing recognition through waves of grief and clarity. When did you become collapse aware? What was the trailhead that brought you deeper into the Long Dark? How long did you know the world was coming undone and not do anything? When did you deepen compassion for people who are not collapse aware? What do you need now, at this point in your collapse journey? All collapse journeys are welcome here in our gathering space, whether inherited through generations, discovered in sudden revelation, or slowly unfurled through time. Join us tonight at 5:30pm PST / 6:30pm MST for some not-so-curated conversations about collapse. DETAILS 🕒 Tuesdays, 5:30-6:45pm PST 💻 Via Zoom 👯‍♀️ With @hollytruhlar & @imlikenlichen 🌈 Register on eventbrite . . . #CollapsePyschology #ClimatePsychology #Polycrisis #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #TheLongDark #SoulWork #WhatIfWeGetItRight #EmergentStrategy #OctaviaButler #FrancisWeller #NoraBateson #SoulfulLife
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