Each person needs to metabolize their trauma, to work through it and out of it with their bodies, not just with their conscious thinking mind. All of your intelligence, all of the smart things you’ve done — this is one of the things that happens with me when I come off the stage and I’m doing like, a book signing. All you’re doing is just kind of noticing what’s happening: noticing how much you dislike my voice; noticing how much you dislike, or you like, some of the things that Krista said.

Video interview on the Connectfulness Practice Podcast—Mending Racialized Trauma, A Body-Centered Approach. His book My Grandmother’s Hands is a completely original contribution — part narrative, part workbook — of old wisdom and very new science around healing racial trauma in our bodies.While dealing with the subject of clean pain, the author introduces the Five Anchors , the process for moving through clean pain and when someone senses conflict building.

Because it’s been decontextualized and handed down from my mom, my grandmother, my grandfather, blah blah blah, all the way down, I didn’t have a language for it, but there was a knowing that “this ain’t right. The signals from the soul nerve are incorporated into one of several body practices, below, for working with the body’s checkpoints or warning signals.And what just the orienting does is allow you to go, OK, I’m not crazy, because my body just did something that it wasn’t doing before I did that. The author tells us that “(t)rauma is never a personal failure, nor the result of someone’s weakness, nor a limitation, nor a defect. PDF] [EPUB] My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts Download by Resmaa Menakem.