Many of us have become acutely aware of the numerous atrocities and genocides occurring worldwide. We've been jolted out of our comfort zones and have started to educate ourselves about the injustices happening globally and within our own communities.

Naturally, this awareness can lead to feelings of helplessness, anxiety, and overwhelm. It's important to remember that healing doesn't have to be a solitary process. Being part of a community plays a crucial role in collective healing. Connecting with others who share similar experiences offers comfort, new perspectives, and reduces feelings of isolation. A supportive community provides empathy, understanding, and validation, making you feel seen and heard.

To help navigate these emotions and empower individuals, I've created this list. It features invaluable advice from various creators on how to care for ourselves while advocating for the liberation of all people. Together, through community and mutual support, we can heal and thrive.

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Every feeling that you’re feeling the heaviness of your shoulders, the anxiety you feel as soon as you get up in the morning, the sadness the head fog, the overwhelming sense of helplessness is completely normal when watching genocide. You should be feeling how you’re feeling because as soon as you stop feeling like this way you become desensitised to it and you no longer see it as important enough to help - @serareadthat

One of the most revolutionary things that you can do is take care of yourself. For the enemy wants you tired and confused. You make more mistakes this way. @ladyspeechsankofa

You are not alone. If you are so emotionally disturbed by what’s happening in Palestine right now you are not alone, I am with you, your feelings are valid. @anees

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You should be in tune with the ways your discomfort is signalling to you that this (genocide) is not okay. Do not log off, do not retreat, try and stay present -@forblackgirlslikeme

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Donations are a very short term solution to the ongoing genocide. What Palestinians want is for people to mobilized in mass. @anat.international

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We are not freeing Palestine. Palestine is freeing us - @jung_falooda

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The more that people don’t talk about what’s happening in Gaza, the more dangerous it becomes for those that are speaking out - @padzdey

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And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians we hear a voice louder than their voices and the sounds of their bombs and stronger than their control in all aspects of lives. Keep going and we will too. @wizard_bisan1

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It’s really easy to fall in the trap of seeing all of the mass atrocities happening around the world and just feeling helpless and overwhelmed but a key reason why it’s important to see your struggle for liberation interconnected with all oppressed people’s struggle with liberation is that the same tools used against you are used against them - @latmpod

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Ya’ll don’t got a problem with it because there’s an injustice happening. Ya’ll have a problem with it because the injustice is too loud for you to ignore - @regularevolutionary

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This right now is the right time to talk about congo. This is the right timing. Please don’t develop passion fatigue because if we do that the situation will go back to how it was a few years back. We gave gained this momentum and we will need to continue.@pappyorion #FreeCongo

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Apathy is a powerful tool of oppression. If they can make you feel apathetic, feel nothing, or feeling neutral then they have won. They have leveraged the tool of apathy to sway you into inaction - @tylernol4thypain

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The number 1 way to regulate your nervous system is to call an end to the genocide because the reality is we cannot out regulate a nervous system that has been living in a capitalistic genocidal war mongering imperialistic racist homophobic country - @quirky_black_therapist

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When you hear a country say ‘OMG these terrorist attacked us out of nowhere, totally unprovoked for no reason’ you should interpret it the same way as you would interpret a man say ‘OMG my ex-gf freaked out and went crazy on me one day for no reason’ - @zero_woolfe

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Your fears do not live in the present, they are not happening to you currently. Someone right now is living your worst fear and if we care more about ‘your feelings being valid’ , your fears being valid over their safety, there is a problem in society - @shakingsheets

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People swear they would never commit genocide because they always imagine the victims being people they empathise with. But genocide always precedes by a campaign of dehumanisation to dull peoples empathy - @allie_202_

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They are intentionally trying to desensitise you from the violence and from the war crimes with the hopes that if they do it long enough, we will all forget and let it all slide. DO NOT let that happen - @jordxn.simone

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During this situation you are not supposed to feel helpless. Feeling helpless is a tool that works for the people in power. They want us to feel helpless so we don’t feel we have any power to do anything. So if you’re feeling helpless, do the opposite - @quirky_black_therapist

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You’re confused why everyone is not consumed about this as you are, you’re a specific kind of conscientious, responsible person and the world exploits you because it knows you will never be satisfied with the amount you have done but you are ONE person. You are doing the best you can - @umnia_

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Limiting your empathy and ignoring the suffering of others during a genocide because you want to be high vibrational is at best individualistic and bypassing, and at worst intertwines with yt supremacy- @kimssaira

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This is such common thinking that we should care about our own before caring for other people but people in Gaza ARE our own. It’s all the same thing. @dutchdeccc

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It’s not complicated, it’s colonialism. @theslowfactory

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If we pull back a little bit and allow ourselves to recognize the humanity in these issues beyond the politics and the 'content' of it all, there are real people at the centre of these issues. @bsonblast #keepEyesOnSudan

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All we have left is caring about each other. @jaestruthserum

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We’re currently witnessing in real time what it’s going to take to get free as a collective global movement. This is what will become a history lesson, but right now is a life lesson. Take it all in. Fully participate, study, learn, witness, grow and do - @ykhong

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The least that these people deserve is for us to shed tears for them no matter how difficult it gets to look at these images and listen to these stories. Yes take your break. Take your moment and your hours, days etc to regulate yourself but the least we can do while we’re not experiencing this is shed tears for them - @thatbrownguurl

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Your cognitive dissonance will attempt to deactivate your critical thinking the moment that you’re triggered - @jasminesgarden23

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Just know safety was never something you were meant to give yourself, it was something that we as a collective were meant to give to each other - @ayandastood

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We do not have a good relationship with discomfort. We have a very avoidant attachment style to our own society and to our community. You’re stuck feeling helpless because on your journey to activism you have conflict and that’s not fun. That’s why they say ignorance is bliss - @myinternetcousin

Just as we begin to fall into despair, we want to give up, there would be a new wave of people that would come and join the movement and bring that energy back up. @naleybynature

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