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 fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans--our police.

My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy--how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.

Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, is a leading voice in today's conversation on racialized trauma and the creator of Cultural Somatics, which utilizes the body and its natural resilience as mechanisms for growth. As a therapist and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leadership consulting firm, Resmaa dedicates his expertise to coaching leaders through civil unrest, organizational change, and community building

• 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.