Alyssa Kingman (she/they/we)

Hi there, I’m Lyss. Thank you for being here.

I’m a community organizer, cook, artist, committed un-learner, practice lover, and chronic CSA survivor. For over a decade, I’ve been organizing mutual aid on the ground. Again and again, I’ve seen that this model works, and it needs more of us involved.

I arrived at this chapter of mutual aid through my own healing journey, supported by the practitioners listed below. That experience deeply shaped me. I believe access to care, especially somatic and therapeutic support, is a basic human right. Four seasons ago, I was in a place of deep overwhelm. My nervous system was overloaded, and I did not have the capacity to work or show up for my people in the ways I wanted to. I needed care. Thankfully, I found it through the mutual aid networks in my village. I was held through a significant number of mutual aid-funded therapy sessions.

With alchemical resilience, I’m still here, committed to expanding access to the tools and people who helped rebuild my capacity and let my aliveness flourish. I am committed to making somatic care and therapy accessible to all folks through this mutual aid fund and Tidework.

If you’re curious about collaborating to make that happen, I would truly love to hear from you. Resilience is collectively held, and so it must be collectively tended.

Warmly,
Lyss

Contact:
alyssa@tidework.net
518-888-6309