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Years as a healer and trauma therapist have taught me that trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.

By Resmaa Menakem
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Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is an American author, psychotherapist, and trauma specialist. He has served as the director of Tubman Family Alliance and specializes in the relationship between trauma and the human body. Menakem is the author of New York Times bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

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