Colonization and Trauma

A visual of embodied experience.    In My Grandmother’s Hands:  Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (2017), Resmaa Menakem outlines how racialized historical trauma in America is an embodied experience. Embodiment is a way of representing that the mind, the body, the spirit, and the world around us is a…

I’d like to begin with 10 statements about healing from trauma and shame: Everybody has trauma that impacts our responses, perceptions, and behavior. It’s ok. It doesn’t mean you are a lesser person. It just means you are a survivor. We are all survivors of brutal colonial systems that continue to inflict harm upon the…