Resmaa Menakem
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“In today’s America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or we’re healed from that brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.”
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
“Years as a healer and trauma therapist have taught me that trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.”
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
“Recent studies and discoveries increasingly point out that we heal primarily in and through the body, not just through the rational brain. We can all create more room, and more opportunities for growth, in our nervous systems. But we do this primarily through what our bodies experience and do—not through what we think or realize or cognitively figure out.”
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
― My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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“Our Virtues are wrapped inside of our limitations. It is only when we are in close proximity to others that we begin to intimately explore the boundaries of our virtues by slamming into our limitations.”
― Rock the Boat: How to Use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Your Relationship
― Rock the Boat: How to Use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Your Relationship