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What Type of Meditation Is Best for You?

By Tania Singer — 2018

One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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We Went to a Support Group for Black People in America

Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.

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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America

As a 6'2" dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt knows what it feels like to be stereotyped as threatening, which can have dangerous consequences. But he also knows that proximity to people who are different from ourselves can be a cure for racism.

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The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders.

Staci K. Haines

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2008: Sonia Sanchez — Middle Passage

Sonia Sanchez performs her poem "Middle Passage" accompanied by guitarist Gerry De Mol.

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Healing Racialized Trauma

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society.

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Healing Racial Trauma Through Body-Centered Psychology with Resmaa Menakem

An interview with Resmaa Menakem, on his book My Grandmother's Hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. This is the first self-discovery book to examine white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

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I Too Am a Racist—The Work of Byron Katie

Byron Katie and an Asian American woman apply "The Work" inquiry framework to her experiences with racial discrimination.

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