A Mind-Body Approach to Race-Based Traumatic Stress Recovery – Gail Parker

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Join Gail Parker, PhD, and explore a mind/body approach to stress reduction and trauma recovery from race-based traumatic stress.

Restorative Yoga supports embodied awareness and enhances an overall sense of well-being. It eases stress, aids in trauma recovery, and is an effective adjunct to psychotherapy.

When you lose the ability to recognize it for what it is, abusive and traumatizing, and learn to tolerate the intolerable, the unacknowledged pain does not disappear; it just goes underground and can express itself in ways that zap your vitality and make it difficult to live your best life.

The emotional wounds of race-based trauma land in the body. The resulting pain is not a cognitive experience and recovery cannot occur by talk therapy alone. Sometimes in the face of race-based trauma there are no words to describe the experience, and talking about it can be re-traumatizing.

1. Race-Based Traumatic Stress: differentiation from PTSD 
2. High-effort coping
3. The physiology of emotion
4. Emotional regulation tools
5. Restorative Yoga as a helpful tool for clients

1. Determine the difference between PTSD and race-based traumatic stress.
2. Practice emotional regulation tools such as restorative yoga.
3. Incorporate restorative yoga as a helpful aid in your treatment planning to help clients cope with race-based traumatic stress.