HEALING IN JOY

JOY is an active strategy for healing and processing trauma in Black bodies.

JOY is more than a moment; it is a practice of ongoing healing and resistance!

This offering looks at joy as an anti-oppressive practice to race-based trauma and cultural healing. It is a return to the resiliency and restoration that includes adding both justice and joy to our lived experience. Taking the strategies of our generational strengthen and wisdom along with the adaption of therapeutic approaches to resonate with our healing journey. Joy is a human experience we as Black people deserve and are worthy of.

Healing in Joy (HJ) is a practice and process of creating and maintaining cultural joy built into the process of individual and collective healing for Black people. This event offers four different offerings to help us individually and collectively embrace healing; by developing the strategies to cultivate a response Race-Based Trauma (Racialized Trauma). These sessions are available to the general public. However, some sections are intended for women who identify as Black. Healing in Joy is an evolving program that wishes to offer strategies of healing that is less stagnant and integrates healing methods for intergenerational trauma.

Meet Our Host

Sharea Farmer is the Founder and CEO of RS Counseling & Wellness with over 17 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. Her training includes Racial Trauma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Theory, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Her expertise in both clinical and administration has allowed her to work in the private and public sectors as an advocate for employee wellness, Diversity & Inclusion, Race Equity, and Trauma-Informed Practices. Her unique practice that focuses on empowerment and education creates transformative wellness for her clients that range from executive leadership teams to supervisors to staff.

Sharea currently works in a practice setting that caters to Black and Latinx women, although not exclusively, as well as couples and adolescents. Her empowerment approach focuses on helping people identify and bring out their distinctive strengths while overcoming barriers to happiness and success. Her goal is to help clients create a quality life filled with purpose and self-love. Sharea encourages clients to embrace the concept that wellness and happiness lies within our control.