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Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma

By Resmaa Menakem — 2018

During the Middle Ages in Europe, torture, mutilation, and other forms of savagery particularly on women were seen as normal aspects of life. Public executions were literally a spectator sport. As a result, when European “settlers”first came to this country centuries ago, they brought a millennium of inter-generational and historical trauma with them, possibly stored in the cells of their bodies. Today, much of this trauma continues to live on in the bodies of most Americans.

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Intergenerational Trauma — Legacies of Loss

Multiple generations of families can transmit the damage of trauma throughout the years. Social workers must be aware of and detect the subtle and not-so-subtle effects on a family, a community, and a people.

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A Note from Charleston

A Diverse Coalition of Women Finds Church at Emanuel AME.

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Can the World Mend in This Body?

The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.

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Intergenerational Trauma