Building Systems of Liberation
- Brainz Magazine
- Sep 12
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 23
Written by Lindsey Leavitt, Transformational Coach
Lindsey Leavitt is a transformational coach. Her expertise stems from her lived experience of abuse, mental illness, and chronic pain. Lindsey's transformation has inspired her to utilize her knowledge and abilities as an artist/musician to advocate, empower, and lift others.
Discover how true liberation goes beyond escape, focusing on building systems that promote sovereignty, healing, and freedom. Explore the biological, relational, and economic frameworks necessary to dismantle control and create lasting change in every aspect of life.
The myth of escape
Most people think liberation is escape, running from cages, breaking from chains, fleeing the architecture of control. But escape is temporary. Systems of oppression adapt. They reconfigure. They rebuild inside your nervous system, inside your language, inside your choices.
Liberation is not running away. Liberation is building.
Blueprints of power
Control was never accidental. It was engineered:
Families designed dependency.
Institutions designed obedience.
Religions designed self-betrayal.
Cultures designed shame as currency.
If oppression has blueprints, so must freedom. Liberation cannot be improvised, it must be constructed with the same precision that control once used to enslave.
Engineering the nervous system
The first system of liberation is biological. The body is the battlefield.
Trauma loops the nervous system into constant alarms. Liberation teaches it safety again.
Dissociation splits memory from truth. Liberation reintegrates what was severed.
Shame wires survival around secrecy. Liberation rewires it with exposure and truth.
Healing is not a soft hobby. It is neurological rebellion.
Liberation as architecture
Imagine freedom as a house you build:
Foundation: Self-awareness and self-love, poured like unbreakable concrete.
Framework: Boundaries, steel beams that hold weight without apology.
Walls: Relationships that respect sovereignty instead of collapse it.
Roof: Truth, protection that does not block light but lets it flood in.
Rooms: Spaces of creativity, rebellion, laughter, and sacred rage.
Where control once dictated design, we build differently, a home that does not collapse under lies.
Generational repair
Liberation is never private. Trauma flows across generations like a poisoned river. So does healing. When one person builds differently, the blueprint alters:
Children grow up seeing truth honored, not denied.
Families learn intimacy without domination.
Communities practice leadership without control.
Liberation scales. One healed body becomes many.
Liberation economics
Systems of control demand dependency, on money, approval, doctrine, shame. Systems of liberation demand sovereignty:
Income not built on exploitation.
Communities not built on silence.
Power not built on fear.
To liberate yourself economically is to starve the machine. To create new ways of exchange is to seed an entirely new world.
The courage of construction
This is not about being fearless. Fear will come. Courage is the act of building anyway.
Liberation requires audacity:
To name what was hidden.
To refuse the blueprint of dependency.
To risk being called dangerous, disobedient, and defiant.
Because we are dangerous to systems that prey on silence.
The invitation
This is the work of our era, not just dismantling systems of control but designing systems of liberation. Not only breaking chains but forging new architecture – inner, relational, cultural.
We are not waiting for saviors. We are not surviving anymore. We are engineers of sovereignty. We are builders of freedom.
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Lindsey Leavitt, Transformational Coach
Lindsey Leavitt is a transformational coach. She is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). The model focuses on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. Lindsey battled with anxiety and depression throughout her life. She implemented various therapeutic modalities, but none were effective. Finally, Lindsey implemented the DBT approach, which changed her life forever. Now she is helping others take back their power, regain control of their lives, and start living an abundant life.
