My Grandmother's Hands
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. (publisher description)
- Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy-- how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system
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Offers a step-by-step solution--a healing process--in addition to incisive social commentary.
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
Author: Resmaa MenakemPublisher: Central Recovery Press, September 2017
ISBN: 9781942094470
Paperback, 330 pages
