2019 Resmaa Menakem Racialized Trauma

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In his excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma: white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies. It is a fascinating study and insight into historical trauma and how that lives in and through our bodies.
Resmaa Menaken is a healer. He presents a clear picture of trauma and how it works in our bodies. He covers exercises and practices to heal the trauma in our own body. He has a section on harmonizing our bodies, and reducing our lizard brain response of fear of the other.
Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, S.E.P. has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. He has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department. As a Community Care Counselor, he managed the wellness and counseling services for civilians on fifty-three US military bases in Afghanistan.

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Ordering the book now. This caring, brilliant, beautiful man gave words and context to something I've been feeling for years, mainly about safety. Time to heal.

[@kimbahlish]

It is a fabulous book.... for everyone! He's a brilliant writer.

[@jessicafinney246]

Thank you family for your support and words of encouragement and healing.

[@shinesound]

Thank you for this powerful discussion. Resmaa Menakem's understanding of collective and individual trauma is inspirational in it's clarity and nuance. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. ∞ ♥ ∞

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Thank you so much, such important work and we need more of this.

[@geneticstar]

Thank you.

[@candacekirby8364]

What a beautiful conversation. Thank you so much.

[@AndreaHylenWriter]

Thank you so much! I have been reading and working with My Grandmother's Hands and this talk helped anchor and ground some of the recent experiences. Grateful for Resmaa Menakem's work and wisdom. Thank you!

[@jadedallas9774]

Thank you so much for this convo! Taking so many notes ❤️💚❤️ Powerful 🙏

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I love this! Shared

[@monicabhagwan5594]

yes!!

[@BigFamilyFun]

Great for therapy

[@dewaynebaugh1497]

He's getting close to how this racialized trauma began it started when humans first left Africa the first experience of trauma was the loss of pigmentation and the mixing of humans and Neanderthals and denovisions in cold climates with scarce resources during an ice age that was the beginning of a severe inferiority complex when Europeans discovered the advanced civilizations of africa