Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA
b"\\u201cHere's what I would say: peace will happen when people invest in cultivating peace as opposed to war. Peace will happen. And one thing I know, for me, I know peace, I know I will never see it, but maybe I can put something in place to where I leave something here and my children's, children's, children's grandchildren can nibble off of and feed on what I've left here the same way I feed off of Frederick Douglass's stuff.\\u201d\\nSo says therapist and social worker Resmaa Menakem, author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother\\u2019s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies and originator of the Somatic Abolitionist movement. I met Resmaa many years ago, when he was one of the few voices in this space\\u2014Resmaa calls himself a communal provocateur and this is true, as his work challenges all of us to recognize and acknowledge that we\\u2019re scared. And that much of this fear is ancient. We were supposed to talk today about trauma in relationships, but our time together took a different turn\\u2014Resmaa jumped at the opportunity to put me in my familial and familiar fear. It\\u2019s hard, or at least it was for me, but hopefully you\\u2019ll stick with us to see how this works. This is the third part of a series on trauma, and it won\\u2019t surprise you to hear that Resmaa also trained with Peter Levine.\\n\\nMORE FROM RESMAA MENAKEM:\\nMy Grandmother\\u2019s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies\\nMonsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy\\u2014And What You Can Do About It\\nThe Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation\\u2019s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning\\nResmaa\\u2019s Website\\nFollow Resmaa on Instagram\\n\\nRELATED EPISODES:\\nPART 1: James Gordon, M.D., \\u201cA Toolkit for Working with Trauma\\u201d\\nPART 2: Peter Levine, Ph.D, \\u201cWhere Trauma Lives in the Body\\u201d\\nThomas Hubl: \\u201cFeeling into the Collective Presence\\u201d\\nGabor Mat\\xe9, M.D.: \\u201cWhen Stress Becomes Illness\\u201d\\nGalit Atlas, PhD: \\u201cUnderstanding Emotional Inheritance\\u201d\\nThomas Hubl: \\u201cProcessing Our Collective Past\\u201d\\nRichard Schwartz, PhD: \\u201cRecovering Every Part of Ourselves\\u201d\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices"