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

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And now those things become attracted to you, which creates more angst, which forces you to transform.

And to me, what you speak into that, very concretely — you say, “We tried to teach our brains to think better about race” — which makes sense; it felt like that was a good idea.Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. We chose to include this language to illustrate the heinous nature of the history being discussed and Hitler’s admiration for it. Witnessing arrests, and law enforcement: Other body practices include contemplating and contrasting times when the arrest of a black and a white body was witnessed.

This phenomenon often occurs as a result of triggers, in a spontaneous manner, which are considered unintended, and thus may be rationalized after the act. Menakem: So one of the things about the animal part of the body is that even though me and you are in this room, this nice place, there’s a part of the body that’s saying, “Yeah, but what else is gonna happen? Micro-aggressions: The subtler forms of violation to black bodies, including micro-aggressions, day-to-day stressors and lack of regard, are explained and form the basis for body practices where the contemplations begin with these violations occurring to white bodies, and then shifts to others. It feels important to me right now, at this moment in our life together — there’s a lot of judging other people, or thinking, “Can’t they just get their act together?

He is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders, and very new science, about how all of us carry in our bodies the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word “race. It’s about allowing — the reason why we want to heal the trauma of racialization is that it thwarts the emergence. And you don’t even know — they haven’t said anything, they ain’t sounding particularly sad, but you go, “huh” — 3,000 miles away, and I’m picking up on something.

He contends that a key factor in the ongoing white-body supremacy is the refusal of individuals and collectives “to experience clean pain around the myth of race. If you’re listening to me right now, one of the things I want you to do is I want you just to sit for a second. Some of the things that we go to that are “supposed to” help and “supposed to” heal, really are re-wounding and are violent.Kalliopeia Foundation, dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality; supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. But you have this radical statement that “While we see anger and violence in the streets of our country, the real battlefield is inside our bodies” — in all of our — I mean, I’m saying this — all of our bodies, of every color.

And so what I’ve been talking to people about is, how do we begin to get the reps in with those pieces? So this is one of the ways you summarize, in not very many words, how confusing and contradictory the ways are that, culturally, we hold our race and see others. So you’re gonna need time to condition your body to be able to deal with the aches, deal with the doubt, deal with all of that difficulty. The subtitle spells out Menakem’s main goal: to provide readers with tools to heal from the trauma of white supremacy.The title refers to my maternal grandmother and to how both trauma and resilience were expressed through her body. Journaling is often recommended as a way to process some of our contemplations, reactions and after-affects. My Grandmother’s Hands comprises four introductory sections, followed by three parts and concluding matter. The Middle and the Dark Ages set the table for poor white people because they had been brutalized by powerful white people. 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.

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