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

by Resmaa Menakem

Book Overview

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."-- Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body is where our instincts reside and where we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942094477
• ISBN13: 9781942094470
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Central Recovery Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

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.