My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Menakem Resmaa Paperback
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Menakem Resmaa Paperback The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it…
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Menakem Resmaa Paperback
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. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology.
White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. So do blue Americans--our police.My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.Paves the way for a