On conflict and eldering
aging , ancestors , collective care , conflict , eldering , healing justice , liberation , self and kin/community Susan Raffo June 25, 2026 healing , eldering , conflict , justice , generation , cross generational relationship , gerotranscendence
So now what, beloveds?
The ground is changing in Minnesota. Ice is melting and it isn’t gone, but it is not the same as it was a few months ago. And yes, I am talking about the frozen water that touches the soil but I am also talking about the mercenaries hired by the Trump administration. They are not gone, and if anything, as of this writing, they have ramped up their targeting of the suburbs and smaller towns. Some reports tell us that there are still 2000 agents in Minnesota and others say 500. We know they are still here, loves, but for some of us, the violent theater of Operation Metro Surge is also shifting.
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collective care , collective change , economic justice , liberation , Minnesota Susan Raffo February 24, 2026 Minnesota , ICE , healing , conflict , liberation , healing justice , Minneapolis , Operation Metro Surge , Trump , community , care , protection , security
An offering: eight hours of it
aging , ancestors , body practices , bodywork , bodyworker , collective care , eldering , healing justice , land and self , liberation Susan Raffo July 30, 2025 walking , healing justice , practitioner , land , land justice , social justice , bodywork , generational trauma
Officially ending the walk
Grief and gravity
listening: three brains (or more) instead of one
body practices , collective change , healing justice , liberation Susan Raffo February 27, 2021 healing justice , Suzanne River , Global Somatics , Susan Raffo , gut brain , brain , heart brain , there brains , cellular membrane , liberation , social justice
Embodying impact
time to redistribute those stimulus checks, baby
healing justice , collective change , liberation , economic justice Susan Raffo March 27, 2020 healing justice , economic justice , stimulus check , money , community , collective care , Susan Raffo , mutual aid
What happens to the body when it hates and why it is so pleasurable
eldering and attachment and fear and control, no wonder we hardly talk to each other
ancestors , collective change , healing justice , liberation , aging , eldering Susan Raffo November 23, 2019 healing justice , trauma , aging , elder , healing , Susan Raffo , boomer , culture
A midwestern POCI conversation about healing