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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 holly@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, or explore my Events & Offerings page.

 

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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. F—k ICE. Free Palestine. Protect the @gazafreedomflotilla Always Together, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #CollectiveLiberation #EmergentStrategy #SoulActivism #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #PoliticizedGrief #SoulWork #Polycrisis #FreePalestine #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
SORROWS OF THE WORLD VIGIL: Monday, June 2nd, 5-6p SORROWS OF THE WORLD VIGIL: Monday, June 2nd, 5-6pm MDT There is so much swirling. So much collapsing inside and around us. We are grieving personal heartbreaks, cultural ruptures, and the ongoing violence of empire. This is a time for vigil. A time to gather our scattered selves and sit, candlelit, in the company of others who feel the weight of it all. We’ll grieve relationship losses and the personal deaths that have touched us. We’ll grieve the genocides in Palestine, Congo, Sudan. We’ll grieve the assault on trans lives. The rise of fascism. The desecration of land and water. We’ll grieve what feels like too much to carry alone, because together we can hold it with deep care and heart. Join us for a one-hour grief vigil where we’ll welcome all sorrows, light candles, share our griefs, play music, and hold space for all that aches. DETAILS Day: Monday, June 2nd Time: 4–5pm PDT / 5-6 MDT / 7-8 EDT Where: Register on EventBrite, hosted on Zoom Facilitated by: Naila Francis @thishallowedwilderness and @hollytruhlar Not recorded. Candles encouraged. Registration in the bayo portal. Because grief is sacred and we don’t have to do this alone. Quote credits: @jaiyajohn @rowenwhite @adriennemareebrown . . . #CollectiveGrief #Vigil #GriefRitual #PoliticizedGrief #TheSorrowsOfTheWorld #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #JaiyaJohn #RowenWhite #AdrienneMareeBrown #FrancisWeller #GriefSupport
GRIEF & SOLIDARITY DAYS are here, this weekend: Ma GRIEF & SOLIDARITY DAYS are here, this weekend: May 31st & June 1st. Across kitchen tables, under trees, in backyards, parks, and next to creeks, people are gathering to grieve. Because grief is not just personal. It’s political. It’s ancestral. It’s alive in the marrow of our movements. Grief reveals what we love. And in grieving together, we remember that we belong to each other. That no one is disposable. That the world’s pain is ours to tend, not alone, but together. Grief is not weakness. It is resistance. It is the alchemy of heartbreak and devotion. It is a doorway to collective liberation. This weekend, we grieve to remember. We grieve to resist. We grieve to root ourselves deeper in solidarity. The resource packet + video recording from our Grief & Solidarity Days prep call with @kaichengthom, @desireeadaway, @alexandra_blakely, Francis Weller, and me is available through the end of Sunday. It’s waiting for you in the usual place. The recording l:nk is woven into the letter on the final page of the packet. Through that call, we raised $1,550 for the National Immigrant Justice Center. Thanks to so many of you for your generosity. Thank you for turning grief into meaningful action. If you want to donate, there’s more info you know where. If you’re gathering this weekend, I’d be honored to witness, share in the comments, or through a post or story. I’ll be gathering with a small circle tomorrow with the donks, the creek, and our grief. Be tender. Be brave with each other. XO, H 🌈🫏🧙🏻‍♀️ . . . #GriefAndSolidarityDays #TheWildEdgeOfSorrow #CollectiveLiberation #GriefSupport #Solidarity #CommunityBuilding #EmergentStrategy #IHopeWeChooseLove #WhatItTakesToHeal #WhatIfWeGetItRight
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