MEET Our mutual aid organizer

Lyss Burns (she/they/we)

Hi there! I’m Lyss. Thanks for being here.

I’m a community organizer, cook, artist, committed un-learner, practice lover and therapy client.

For over a decade, I’ve been organizing mutual aid on the ground. I’ve seen again and again 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.

Three seasons ago, I was in a place of deep overwhelm. My nervous system was overloaded, and I didn’t 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 here. Committed to expanding access to the tools and people that helped rebuild my capacity and let my aliveness flourish. I am a commitment to making somatic care and therapy accessible to all folks. 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 to.

Warmly,
Lyss

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