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Resmaa Menakem on racial healing

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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

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Resmaa Menakem
2017
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My Grandmother’s Hands

America has been dealing with race issues for a long time. Perhaps making more headway requires a different approach—one that’s less conceptual, more body-focused.

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Psychology Today
2017
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Generational Trauma — Oba, Kaba, Resmaa, Brandon

Legacy of Trauma: Context of the African American Experience Live Webinar with Brandon Jones

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Resmaa Menakem
2019
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Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins with the Body

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

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Resmaa Menakem
2020
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Unpacking the Embodied Plantation Backpack

If you have an African American body, welcome. I wrote this blog post—and the body practice at the end—especially for you. (Everyone else, welcome as well—but please skip the body practice.)

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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White Body Supremacy in America—An Interview with Resmaa Menakem

Resmaa Menakem discusses white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. When we spoke to Resmaa back in episode 36, the interview ran to a full hour.

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Resmaa Menakem
2018
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Unpacking the Embodied Plantation Backpack: The White Body’s Burden

Soon after an American baby is born, they are put into a cute little onesie. But at the same time, they also get fitted with a heavy, invisible backpack.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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Healing Racialized Trauma

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society.

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Resmaa Menakem
2020
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A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma

There’s growing research into racism’s real impact on the body, especially how stress can impact health and how your DNA works. Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and trauma specialist has been drawing on this research for years.

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Resmaa Menakem
2021
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