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

by Resmaa Menakem

Book Overview

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. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942094477
• ISBN13: 9781942094470
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Central Recovery Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

My Grandmother's Hands has a whole lot to offer

My Grandmother's Hands offers way more than a good, enlightening and refreshing read. It offers practical recommendations to aging trauma and how through routine practices, one can become self sustaining bringing relief from trauma. Resmaa offers his tremendous writing skill, social skills and expertise on how to recognize and deal with trauma, whether it be old, new, racial, conflict, whatever the source of the trauma may be. Through becoming involved in workshops, developing post traumatic practices and being aware, Resmaa has a whole lot to offer.