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

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Menakem: “… then that is in some way gonna make it so we can all sing kumbaya together.” And this is why I don’t — when I do my workshops and I do my experiences, I do not slam white bodies and bodies of culture together, because it is unsafe. And we all know it. Tippett: That makes sense too, in terms of how trauma is in the eternal present — you’re not remembering it, it’s reliving itself. And you’re getting — just for that minute, you’re actually settling in the real present. Kalliopeia Foundation, dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality; supporting organizations and initiatives that uphold a sacred relationship with life on Earth. Learn more at kalliopeia.org. Krista Tippett, host: Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds, with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, I return again and again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. 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.” We offer up Resmaa’s intelligence anew on changing ourselves at a cellular level — practices towards the transformed reality I believe most of us long to inhabit.

Would recommend this book to everyone who reposted that quote on insta about the trauma white people hold in a white supremacist society, therapists, and anyone who liked the body keeps the score (so therapists). Really I would recommend this book to everyone I know, if they were willing to read it. Grounding: connecting with the earth and our embodied self (particularly during times of crisis and distress) via mindful awareness of physical sensations (e.g. literally feeling your feet on the ground). And so what I’ve been talking to people about is, how do we begin to get the reps in with those pieces? 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. You’re gonna have to get up against your own suffering’s edge, before the transformation happens. But you need to condition that. Why do we think that when we talk about race, that’s any different — for me to say, “We’re gonna have a white body supremacy talk; deal with the root of this stuff”? Tippett: Also, you talked about how your mother and your grandmother, again, how they just modeled this for you, that there is no failure, there is only practice. white supremacy is more accurately called white-body supremacy. it's got less to do with supremacy of white skin and more to do with supremacy of bodies that are considered white. this could be seen as semantic but is quite helpful.

Trauma and Its Effects

clean pain is when you know that a difficult thing needs to be done, you know what that thing is, and you do it because healing/growth are on the other side. dirty pain is all the subsequent pain when clean pain is avoided. Hey, are we — I feel like we’re so animated in here. OK? I was worried if the microphones are gonna be — if they can handle it. Fifth, he introduces new terms such as “dirty and clean pain” and “the soul nerve” and while it’s not necessarily bad, I felt it was completely useless and seemed like he was trying to hard to make up something new for some reason. Menakem: That’s exactly right. That’s why what you see now is like the flower of the seed of that. That’s what you’re seeing right now. And so when you say little things, the body hears, “Yeah, that’s right. They ain’t human.”

Resourcing: identifying and utilizing the resources you have (e.g. supportive relationships, comforting memories, or calming breathing etc.) to help manage stress and trauma. Menakem: So in terms of a practice, this is a very simple practice ( Link to share this practice). 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. And I want you just to stare straight ahead. Just look straight ahead. And as you’re looking straight ahead, just notice what is actually landed and what is actually still kind of in the air. The Lilly Endowment, an Indianapolis-based, private family foundation dedicated to its founders’ interests in religion, community development, and education. He also includes some activities that I strongly urge anyone who reads this book to do. As a white person, I struggled at first with the concept of how racism would live in my white body, as I have not suffered from it. What became so clear to me, however, is that the trauma of the history of white bodies perpetuating the harshest, most inhumane forms of racism absolutely lives in our bodies -- as does the ways in which our present-day commissions of micro aggressions and reinforcement of white supremacy, and the trauma that our presence as white-bodied people can cause BIPOC just by existing. If we as white-bodied people want to show up more completely and effectively as allies and in proactively working to be anti-racist and pro-equality, we have our own healing to do. Soul Medic:' From the battlefield to Minnesota, a therapist continues to listen". Star Tribune . Retrieved 2020-11-26.Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. The author tells us that “(t)rauma is never a personal failure, nor the result of someone’s weakness, nor a limitation, nor a defect. It is a normal reaction to abnormal conditions and circumstances.” Menakem: That’s the missing piece, is that we think, “If I can just think about this differently …”

Menakem: So the idea that people could go through a thousand years of the Dark Ages and come out of that unscathed — 500 A.D. to 1500 is when we’re talking about, when we say the Dark Ages. So you mean to tell me that the level of brutalization — Menakem, Remaa (2017) My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies , Central Recovery Press. Was super disappointed in this book because I had really high hopes for it. TLDR, I don't recommend, and am absolutely looking sideways at the coworker who recommended it. PDF / EPUB File Name: My_Grandmothers_Hands_-_Resmaa_Menakem.pdf, My_Grandmothers_Hands_-_Resmaa_Menakem.epubParts of the Body: Similar to body sweeps or scans, some of these exercises encourage attention to different parts of the body. Trauma is real and affects the body (and changes gene expression) but I don’t think it’s a stretch to call quite a bit of this pseudoscience. I do not wish to diminish the way he thinks we should heal (because somatic healing is so important), but the theory is messy and misleading, ESPECIALLY to the lay person.

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