Hidden Healers is a first-of-its-kind digital video series that elevates, uplifts and centers culturally grounded healing practices from BIPOC communities to show how healing can come from many unexpected places, including our own traditions and cultural practices.
MTV’s Hidden Healers campaign aims to empower young people from a diversity of backgrounds to embrace their own accessible and relevant hidden healing practices to help improve their mental health.
“Practicing mental wellness is not always easy for our young people, particularly those with intersectional and marginalized identities. This is due to many barriers to professional care like therapy, medication and accurate diagnoses, which are impacted by pervasive cultural stigmas that prevent people from taking action.”
“Hidden Healers stemmed from the idea that historically, conversations around mental health and wellness have been whitewashed, and [that] there is a level of institutional trauma that marginalized communities have faced, resulting in Black, brown, and queer communities creating their own healing practices and us reclaiming those roots and ancestral practices.”