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Radical Rest started by T. Aisha Edwards, LMHC on a wing and a prayer in the wake of the George Floyd murder and the racial uprising of 2020. To support BIPOC folks who were disproportionately impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic and experiencing the ravages of carceral violence, Radical Rest started as a simple mutual aid pop up of like-minded wellness providers offering free wellness services to BIPOC folk. It has evolved to explore and redefine health justice in BIPOC communities and to return our agency about our health back into our own hands. What will never change at Radical Rest is the belief that material conditions of the marginalized MUST occur in the context of belonging and bodily safety.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for a transformative evening of community, creativity, and healing. Our special partnership between APANO and Radical Rest—a BIPOC-centered healing justice collective—brought together an incredible grou
She still loves us even if we make choices that say we don’t love her
Our first Radical Return immersion retreat in collaboration with @imagine_black_action. Black femmes sharing the beauty of healing in connection and community! What a gorgeous weekend @wapatoislandfarm in ritual and relationship with the land, sky an
🌿 Healing Through Art 🌿 Join us on October 25 for Unblending and Befriending: Creative Practices for Trauma Healing. In this BIPOC-only space, we’ll use art to navigate trauma and foster calm. Let’s explore creative practices that grou

Radical Rest is a healing justice collective of practitioners and educators centering the holistic wellness needs of the BIPOC community through access to culturally responsive, health justice events and opportunities for anti-oppressive education.

Leading with love, Radical Rest is dreaming a future in which body-mind-spirit-community-environment are understood to be inextricably interconnected and central to wellness. We conceive of a time when the legacy of capitalism, settler and extraction colonization and body supremacy no longer define our orientation to our bodies or delivery of wellness services. We see a world where healing is culturally-relevant, happens in community and is equally accessible to all.

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"In collective or group, patterns of pain can indicate the mass, or intergenerational trauma...The pain can open to other feelings, more nuanced and clear. It can begin to make authentic connection and collectivity more possible." 

— ​Adrienne Maree Brown

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If you are a provider with the lived experience of the communities we serve and want to join Radical Rest as a guest facilitator, we'd love to have you! Please email us at radicalrestpdx@gmail.com to join our next offering.