My Grandmother's Hands

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

This book is really good, but I have to take it in really slowly - a hard balance to strike when I'm assigned 3-4 chapters a day for my intensive course. 😅 Listening to the audiobook and then rereading in the print book has been helpful for engaging deeply - although, audiobookers be warned, there are a lot of meaty footnotes left out! #DoubleSpin

Cathythoughts Beautiful title 3y

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ReadingEnvy

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

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I‘ve been reading this book s-l-o-w-l-y because the author wants the reader to stop and actually do the practices. There is a lot here about dealing with radicalized trauma, not only for individuals but within communities. Specific practices are for black people, and others for white people. There are several chapters about rethinking how police are trained to deal with trauma as well. ⤵️

ReadingEnvy If you know mindfulness practices, some of the practices here will be familiar if not quite the same. The strategies for settling the body are definitely some I will be working with.

He ends the book with a challenge for transforming communities and everyday activism. I read this in #hoopla but need to buy it as it isn‘t possible to absorb it all the first time. 4y

Cathythoughts Another beautiful title 💔 4y

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AryaWolf

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

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I started reading this book several years ago and have recommended it to many, though I continued to read it very slowly. I love how Resmaa Menakem lays out the history of trauma in white bodies that then created white bodied supremacy, and how he gives a path forward for each of us to address that trauma. We must take individual responsibility for addressing our white bodied supremacy and advocate for change—these killings cannot continue.

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Bibliogeekery

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

Next up! #therapistbooks

JazzFeathers Beautiful greens 😍 5y

saresmoore Oh, I have this one! Makes me want to read it soon. 5y

Bibliogeekery @saresmoore let me know what you think! I'm reading it with a bunch of therapists right now. We are all studying somatic therapy together 5y

Bibliogeekery @JazzFeathers thanks! 🌿 5y

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