Resmaa Menakem Books
Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, author, and trauma specialist known for his work on racialized trauma and body-centered healing. He has served as a therapist for individuals and organizations and has written extensively on the intersection of race, trauma, and healing.
Known for: My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
My Grandmother’s Hands explores how trauma caused by racism is stored in the body and passed down through generations. Drawing from somatic psychology and trauma therapy, Resmaa Menakem offers practical body-centered practices to heal racialized trauma in Black, White, and police bodies, emphasizing that true healing must occur not only in the mind but also in the nervous system.
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The Legacy of My Grandmother’s Hands: Inherited Pain and Resilience
My grandmother’s hands were strong, dark, and worn from years of labor, yet when they held mine, they carried a calm that no history could erase. Those hands symbolize the central metaphor of this work—the transmission of both trauma and tenderness through generations. In my grandmother’s touch, I f...
From My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The Body and the Nervous System: Clean Pain and Dirty Pain
The nervous system is where trauma lives and heals. It governs our reflexes of fight, flight, freeze, and collapse. Under racial stress, these reflexes become patterned responses to threat, even when the threat is historical or symbolic. Every racial encounter can activate bodily memories older than...
From My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
About Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, author, and trauma specialist known for his work on racialized trauma and body-centered healing. He has served as a therapist for individuals and organizations and has written extensively on the intersection of race, trauma, and healing.
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Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, author, and trauma specialist known for his work on racialized trauma and body-centered healing. He has served as a therapist for individuals and organizations and has written extensively on the intersection of race, trauma, and healing.
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