How the Body Carries Racialized Trauma: A Therapeutic Pathway to Resilience and Healing – Resmaa Menakem

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WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES EVEN BEGIN TO HEAL RACIALIZED TRAUMA IF WE DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT EVEN EXISTS. Our society needs to break down systems and institutions that perpetuate the concept of white body supremacy and recognize how the myth of race and historical trauma is deeply ingrained into our culture.

Through a somatic-body approach that negotiates the common historical and perpetual myths that Black bodies, Native bodies, and other bodies of color are inherently deviant and that the white body is the standard of humanness, Resmaa helps build an understanding of racialized trauma so that we can move from our racialized lens to a cultural lens – and move further to a resourced energy lens of healing. Learn how to recognize trauma in the body, how to build a cultural container to heal, and how to begin practicing resourced resilience. These tools can help us recognize body trauma born out of racism and white body supremacy in our own body and our communities and to start to heal.

1. Determine the stress signs and symptoms of trauma.
2. Evaluate the basics of the HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal) of racialized trauma.
3. Assess the basics of at least one resourcing technique.
4. Investigate the many dimensions associated with how the body carries racialized trauma.

Racialized Trauma

• Myth of race
• Historical trauma
• White body supremacy
• HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal)

How the body carries racialized trauma

• Recognizing trauma in the body

Resilience and community in healing

• Building a container
• Repetition, Consistency, Practice
• Strategies for healing