Resmaa Menakem on Racialized Trauma
Resmaa Menakem is a therapist with decades of experience who is currently in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He specializes in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert in conflict and violence.
In this episode, Eric and Resmaa discuss his book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies.
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In This Interview, Resmaa Menakem and I Discuss Racialized Trauma and …
His book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and BodiesHis definition of Trauma: Something that happened too much, too soon, too fast, or too long without something that was reparativeA sense of stuckness as an indicator of TraumaRacialized TraumaLooking at White and Black Body TraumaWhite body supremacyBeing nice vs. being anti-racistTuning into our bodies to heal racial TraumaCollective healingThe power of not jumping to intellectualizing the wounds that need healingResmaa Menakem Links:
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