Queen Afua talks with her son about parents ending their relationships with each other and single parenting and co-parenting.
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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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Healing begets healing: restorative justice practices offer a pathway for individual healing for both the person who has been harmed and the person who perpetrated the harm.
The stress of ongoing, systemic racism is mentally and physically traumatizing Black individuals and their communities.
There’s growing research into racism’s real impact on the body, especially how stress can impact health and how your DNA works. Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and trauma specialist has been drawing on this research for years.
Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities, and Director of the Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities.
New York Times Best Selling writer, author of "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies", Resmaa Menakem joins the chat.
Integrating the Past - Presenting the Future: Thomas talks about the nature of healing as a process of personal and collective transformation.
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If what it is you want it to simply to be done with this woundedness then you will continue to search for something that temporarily at least makes you feel better.