“What people need to understand is that the trauma of the past two years — not only for the people of Gaza, but for the entire world — is unlike anything we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.”
In this searing episode of The Tea with Myriam Francois, we speak with Ashira Darwish — a Palestinian trauma healer and a survivor of Israeli detention — about what this moment means for our collective nervous system, and how healing itself can be an act of resistance.
In a world where social media algorithms are engineered to keep us numb to genocide — where images of amputated children are livestreamed between cat memes and bikini thirst traps — self-care becomes an act of political warfare.
Ashira explains how liberation psychology begins with understanding where we come from — the lineages we carry, the traumas we inherit, and the ancestral keys we also hold for healing.
Together, we unpack:
🚨 Israel’s torture system in detention
🚨 How algorithms turn genocide into background noise
🚨 Why our nervous systems go numb — by design
🚨 Somatic work: healing intergenerational trauma
🚨 What fuels Israeli society’s capacity for violence
🚨 Liberation psychotherapy: healing as resistance
🚨 Why Western media misreads Palestinian resistance
This episode is about remembering that both trauma and healing are inherited. It’s about choosing not to go numb.
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AUDIO CREDITS
Presenter & Producer: Dr. Myriam François
Guest: Ashira Darwish
Senior Producer: Sara Farolfi
Producer: Nadège Bizimungu
Assistant Producer: Poppy Jacobs
Research: Leena Khan
Video Editor: Max Bubnov
An MPWR Productions show.