IMPACT
Harm
When the negative impacts on your wellbeing are greater than your capacity to recover.
Harm doesn’t necessarily mean somebody is being violent towards you.
Harm also doesn’t mean that you have only positive experiences with language revitalization.
Having both positive and negative experiences within ILR is normal.
Harm is when the negative impacts upon your wellbeing are greater than your capacity to recover.
Some ILR practitioners do experience a singular traumatic event, like the loss of a beloved elder speaker, that has a negative impact upon wellbeing that is greater than their capacity to recover.
More ILR practitioners will experience the ongoing harm of intergenerational trauma, internalized oppression, adverse community experiences, and systemic racism.
This kind of harm builds over time as the cumulative effects of chronic stressors aren’t balanced out by rest, recover, and reward.
This kind of harm can lead to toxic stress, burnout, fatigue, and a host of other negative impacts on your mind, body, and spirit.
REFLECTION