A vital, transformative study of the damage caused by racism from the perspective of trauma and body-centred psychology
Resmaa Menakem is a therapist with decades of experience specializing in trauma, body-centred psychotherapy, and violence prevention. My Grandmother's Hands was a New York Times bestseller.
Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend
highly enough
*Sunny Singh*
It's not just a manual for feeling your feelings, it's an
excavation of the soul. . . Perhaps the most compelling idea in My
Grandmother's Hands is that culture lives in the body - in the food
we eat, the rituals we perform and ways in which we do or do not
soothe our own bodies. It means that when we have the capacity to
cultivate new cultures among us through embodied practices.
*gal-dem*
A revolutionary work of beauty, brilliance, compassion and
ultimately, hope. With eloquence and grace, Resmaa Menakem
masterfully lays out the missing piece in the puzzle of why,
despite so many good intentions, we have not achieved racial
justice. . . This is an intimate guidebook toward racial healing,
one that achieves that rare combination for its readers: it is
deeply intellectually stimulating while also providing practical
ways to engage in the process of repair
*Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility*
Full of wisdom and understanding. Menakem offers a new way to
understand racism and, more importantly, to heal it. This book lays
out a path to freedom and peace, first for individual readers, then
for our culture as a whole. A must-read
*Nancy Van Dyken, author of Everyday Narcissism*
Resmaa Menakem's penetrating insight into trauma is profoundly
impactful, but even more powerful and useful are his strategies for
addressing it -- for healing. A brilliant thinker, he is able to
bring a multitude of research and experience together to guide us
in our understanding of how trauma affects our lives. This is
essential reading if we are to wrest ourselves from the grips of
trauma
*Alexs Pate, author of Amistad*
Forget diversity. Forget teaching tolerance. Forget white guilt.
With clarity and insight, Resmaa Menakem offers a profoundly
different approach to healing racism
*John Friel and Linda Friel, co-authors of Adult Children*
My Grandmother's Hands invites each of us to heal the racial trauma
that lives in our bodies. As Resmaa Menakem explains, healing this
trauma takes courage and a commitment to viscerally feel this
racial pain. By skillfully combining therapy expertise with social
criticism and practical guidance, he reveals a path forward for
individual and collective healing that involves experiencing the
sensations of this journey with each step.
*Alex Haley, Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Center for
Spirituality & Healing*
Menakem cuts to the heart of America's racial crisis with the
precision of a surgeon in ways few have before. As this amazing
work shows us, policies alone will not do it, and bold social
action, though vital to achieving justice, will require those
engaged in it to also take action on the injury, deep and personal,
from which we all suffer
*Tim Wise, author of White Like Me*
An intimate and direct look at the way the Black-white dynamic is
held, not only in institutions such as policing, but also in the
bodies of all of those involved . . . offers concrete practices
that are part of the work of shifting the violence of the original
wound
*Susan Raffo, writer, and community organizer*
Resmaa Menakem offers a path of internal reconciliation for a
person enduring the generational trauma of American racism, and
gives us all a chance to dream of a healing from it
*Keith Ellison, Member of Congress and Deputy Chair of the
Democratic National Committee*
As a career peace officer I entered this noble profession to serve
my community, but I had never received any instruction in the
police academy or been issued a piece of equipment that prepared me
to recognize or examine community trauma . . . or my own. My
Grandmother's Hands gave me a profound and compelling historical
map tracing law enforcement's role as sometimes unknowing
contributors to community trauma
*Medaria Arradondo, Acting Chief, Minneapolis Police Department*
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