Practicing Decolonized Parenting When You're Triggered & Tired

How do we stay true to our values in justice and liberation as caregivers in this moment of uncertainty and chaos? Surviving under systemic oppression might leave you with so little bandwidth to be intentional in raising your little ones even when you know all too well that “liberation starts at home.” How do we struggle well while showing up as the parents/caregivers we know we can be…most of the time?

In this interactive, 90-minute teach-in, you’ll explore:

• Practical ways to center yourself when your children push your parenting buttons (it’s Healing Justice and Emergent Strategy meet developmental science)
• Alternative ways to policing your children when you’re triggered and reactive using the Social Justice Parenting Playbook framework.

We’ll explore these topics together using a large group discussion with minimal use of slides. Participate as much or little as you’d like. Multitasking with children on your lap or in a messy (aka magical) living room is welcomed. Come curious. Come as you are.

Staying aligned with your values in liberation while staying alive under systemic oppression is yikes on bikes. And you’re not alone. We’re in this struggle towards liberation together.

Group Agreements: 

1. Take Space, Make Space:We come as humans first, ready to unlearn, learn, and be held with humility. No one is the expert in this space. Contribute to the collective, not from a place of extraction. Practice Take Space, Make Space to balance voices in the room.
2. Honor Lived Experience:Lived experience is sacred knowledge and holds equal, if not greater, value than degrees, certifications, or titles. Ancestral, somatic, spiritual, collective, or individual—every path to healing is valid. There is no “one right way” to care for ourselves or others.
3. Acknowledge Power and Privilege:Recognize how power, privilege, and access show up in the room. Decenter yourself when needed and amplify voices often silenced or overlooked.
4. Address Harm with Care:Mistakes will happen. When harm occurs, approach it with care and accountability as acts of love and repair, without shame or punishment.
5. Be Real and Human:Show up imperfect, messy, and authentic. This is not a space for performative healing or professionalism. Show up as you are, honoring your needs—eat, drink, or turn off your camera as needed. Assume others are coming from a place of good intentions.
6. Align with Liberation: This space is rooted in radical values like liberation, disability justice, abolition, and anti-Zionism. Respect these principles.
7. Maintain Confidentiality: Protect the confidentiality of any clients or personal stories shared in this space.

Accessibility:

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Meet The Presenter: Nat Vikitsreth LCSW

Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation who supports social justice curious families in their efforts to practice social justice in their parenting while re-parenting their inner child. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist and facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. She founded Come Back to Care for anyone who loves and raises children to heal as we get free. She believes that when parents heal their inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, they put fragmented pieces of themselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with their whole selves. Then, parents can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that’s rooted in liberation for their future generations.

The best place to learn about my work is the website and podcast. https://www.comebacktocare.com/ | https://www.comebacktocare.com/podcast