The Embodied Path to Healing Trauma with Resmaa Menakem

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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324. The Embodied Path to Healing Trauma with Resmaa Menakem Author, therapist, licensed clinical worker, racialized trauma expert, Resmaa Menakem discusses the concepts of somatic abolitionism, and the importance of embodied anti-racist practices. Discover: -The difference between clean and dirty pain; -What white people need to do in order to help create an anti-racist society; and -Why we should shift from looking at the personal to looking at the historical to heal our traumas. On Resmaa: Resmaa Menakem is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid. As the leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism – an embodied anti-racist practice for living and culture building – Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute. Resmaa works at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy—And What You Can Do About It, and The Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands, a children’s picture book with actor T. Mychael Rambo and illustrator Leroy Campbell. In 2023, Resmaa released an on-demand self-paced course titled Healing Racialized Trauma: Somatic Abolitionism for Every Body. You can learn more about Resmaa and his work at www.resmaa.com. Work with Resmaa: https://blackoctopussociety.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. You're not going to want to miss this next hour because it is with
0:16.8	Resma Menachem who is an author agent of, therapist and licensed clinical workers
0:22.8	specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing,
0:26.6	and cultural first aid.
0:28.8	As the leading proponent of somatic abolitionism,
0:31.9	an embodied anti-racist practice for living and culture building,
0:35.4	Resma is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Sematics Institute.
0:40.8	Resma is the author of the New York Times bestseller, My Grandmother's Hands,
0:45.7	racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies, the Quaking of America,
0:51.1	and Monsters in Love. You can learn more about Resma and his work at
0:55.7	Resma.com. So Resma we're just jumping right in with you. That's it.
1:01.0	Let's crack. Let's do it.
1:03.0	I read my grandmother's hands a long time ago and it blew my mind, which is I think was your point
1:09.9	to be getting people out of their minds.
1:13.0	And now I understand it completely differently,
1:15.6	because I have been in and out of recovery for 30 years,
1:20.9	for it just becomes wack-a-mol for me it becomes something different every few years
1:25.6	that I'm addicted to and I have tried to recover in my mind for 30 years so I just keep thinking okay I've I got it now I know how I'm thinking about this.
1:37.2	It's just patriarchy. It's diet culture. It's big pharma. It's wine culture. I've got it like I've
1:45.6	And then I keep not getting cured. Right.
1:48.6	This last round of recovery, I have finally, through tons of therapy and whatever, allowed it to drop into my body the recovery and understand that,
1:59.0	I don't even know if it's an understanding, feel that my problem is just in my past and my parents and their parents, in their parents, in their parents, in the culture and it's like all living in my body.
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