![]() ![]() I would - this is gonna be funny - I would say, skinny-stout woman. Menakem: So my grandmother - my grandmother was not a very big woman. ![]() And so for me, my grandmother, and the story I talk about with her hands, is that piece around creation and emergence even in the midst of anguish and horror. And so my grandmother and my mother and the Black women in my life have always been that protector and that nurturer and that person that would get at your butt and say, “Yeah, you can do it, and let’s keep moving” - and my wife. My grandmother, the women in my family - I have this sense - so when the idea of humanness came about, the first representation of that was the Black woman. And it feels to me like it’s right here in the title of the book - your grandmother’s hands. I am curious - I’ve read you and listened to you - I’m always curious what people’s passion and calling become. I sat across from him in our studio in Minneapolis right before lockdown, in February, 2020. His New York Times best-selling book, part narrative, part workbook, is My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. military contractors in Afghanistan, as well as American communities and police forces. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Now, if you get reps in with that - not just do it one time or just when I tell you to - what you may notice is that you have a little bit more room for other - literally, for other things to happen that can’t happen when the constriction is like that. Menakem: So one of the things about the animal part of the body is that even though me and you are in this room, this nice place, there’s a part of the body that’s saying, “Yeah, but what else is gonna happen?” Even though you know nothing’s behind you, letting the body know it actually helps some pieces. 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. “It can drain us and we can’t often express how we feel to our families because of their lack of understanding when it comes to mental health issues since it’s taboo.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. ![]() “A lot of us are first-generation Canadians, and we often learn to balance our cultural expectations and the first world pressures,” she said via email to Global News. Shanelle McKenzie, co-founder of The Villij, a Toronto-based mental health and wellness initiative for women of colour, says Black people are impacted by intergenerational trauma daily. The system of oppression that day-to-day racism comes from will not change overnight, so addressing trauma through therapy is how Winchester recommends individuals approach the topic. Have those conversations with family, friends and your community to start sharing experiences and how they have impacted you over the years, she said. Winchester recommends Black people sit down and examine how they feel to assess the impacts of day-to-day trauma and microaggressions on their mental health. ![]()
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