Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast, Kelly here, and today is a special, special day.

We have another guest episode for you.

And this one is featuring our first man on the podcast. We are going to have

a fantastic conversation with Resma Medicum. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about Resma.

And when you hear a little bit about him, you're going to understand why I chose him to be our

first male guest on the podcast. And the

conversation we have is truly incredible. Resma is a one of a kind. He understands the dynamics of

black women, the dynamics of black bodies, and how trauma impacts it and how that impacts

the way we see the world, the way we do things, the way we relate to each other within the

culture. Let me tell you a little bit about Resma. Resma Menachim is the founder of the Cultural

Sematics Institute and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Grandmother's

Hands, Racialized Trauma, and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. He's a leading

voice in today's conversation on racialized trauma and what he calls somatic abolitionism.

As a presenter, trainer, consultant, therapist, and trauma specialist,

Resma helps communities, organizations, and individuals to heal the trauma of racialization,

to build stamina and discernment, and encourage emergence.

To learn more about Resma, we're going to put in his show notes at resma.com,

and he has his own

cultural somatics university at think of fic. All will be in the show notes for you. So you see here,

Resma specializes in trauma work, and I first met him years ago. He was doing a podcast as well,

and we had this fantastic conversation about what it

means to heal from trauma and what it means to heal from burnout. And in the course of the conversation,

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