Trauma therapy that doesn't actively fight economic injustice and poverty and its causes, sucks and is useless and ends up doing more harm in the form of subtle victim blaming and reinforcing toxic (capitalist) messages.
Poverty causes dissociation. If you're poor, you have to constantly endure discomfort and unpleasant physical and sensory input.
You have to sit on chairs that hurt your butt and back. You have to sleep on cheap foam mattresses that do the same. Your walls are thin and you hear your neighbours and have to walk on eggshells to avoid getting in trouble. You have to eat and drink the cheap stuff that just doesn't taste as good and doesn't satisfy your true needs. Your clothes are ill fitting, give you gender dysphoria and you probably don't even have a sense of what a pleasant texture would be for you because you could never make that a factor. Household chores are all on hard mode because you don't have the fancy appliances that could help. You probably have to cope with disabilities that go unaddressed and unaccomodated. If you have work, it's probably of the back breaking kind. You're much more likely to breathe polluted air and drink polluted water.
I could go on. The point being, these things are all obvious and anyone who knows anything about trauma, dissociation and grounding can understand how they'd make people dissociate. They cause a background level of dissociation that is hard to overcome as long as the causes are still in place - and arguably not desirable to overcome.
But that same dissociation also makes any other therapeutic intervention or healing approach that much less effective.
Poverty is violence. Poverty is trauma. Poverty is injustice. Healing trauma means fighting the injustice and indignity of poverty. ✊
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