“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:

🚨 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

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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.

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