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My Grandmothers Hands PDF-“My Grandmother’s Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice.”— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.-My Grandmothers Hands PDF

My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

  • Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. 
  • Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, is a leading voice in today’s conversation on racialized trauma and the creator of Cultural Somatics, which utilizes the body and its natural resilience as mechanisms for growth. As a therapist and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leadership consulting firm, Resmaa dedicates his expertise to coaching leaders through civil unrest, organizational change, and community building

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My Grandmothers Hands PDF Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Central Recovery Press; Illustrated edition (September 19, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 1942094477
  • International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1942094470
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.035 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
  • Book Name : My Grandmothers Hands PDF

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Katherine Cameron “Main thesis of book:

All humans have been traumatized by violence (witnessing, perpetrating, receiving, etc) over many centuries, and carry trauma in our bodies (and lizard brains), that gets in the way of self-control. This is a no-fault analysis, which is one of the rather novel and refreshing aspects of the book. We can’t “logic” our way out of racism, nor blame our way out of this. We have to tune into our bodies, do healing exercises, and learn to calm our bodies, so that we can be open and less afraid of each other across racial lines, and can open ourselves to information about our violent, racist history and institutional racism. Most particularly, the traumatized oppressors (white people) can’t expect the oppressed (black people) to do the work for them, or rescue them – white people have to do their own work, and establish their own leaders, rituals, and cultural practices to achieve this end. Only then can we come together as one human family.

What I liked:
• I particularly appreciated the “no fault” approach, because whether or not all white people carry trauma in their bodies from our historical experience of violence, I think it is a better approach for opening people to change – as opposed to stern accusations and blame.
• His first chapter or two on trauma, and how we carry it in our bodies over many years and generations, quite powerful and convincing (for a whole variety of traumas). However, I am dubious about his belief that trauma is imprinted in our genes in real time, and passed on to children. I am open to more information.
• His frequent recommendations to look to elders as part of a healing program. (We put a lot of elders in office in high places, but tend to consider this a “down side” (Biden, Pelosi, etc) .I notice that our society gives license to cruel and nasty jokes about older people all the time – even on my favorite shows. Ageism seems to be the one place where there is free license to be abusive and cruel, even by “progressives”. Catch SNL portrayal of Biden by Jim Carrey.
• While many exercises seemed pretty standard breath and related techniques, I did find some of the Body and Breath Exercises starting on page 141 imaginative and when tried , surprisingly fun and helpful, especially humming and buzzing.

What was less convincing and/or not so well-done:

• Above all, this is an incredibly repetitious book. It could be written in half the pages or less. While this is a common problem, I found this book to be about the worst case of repetition I have come across in a long, long time. You can skim vast portions of the book.
• His exercises for calming the body and learning to notice trauma (with exceptions noted above) seemed repetitious and would be familiar to many readers.
• His recommends certain “cures” such as EMDR and Reiki (last chapter of book) which have been discredited by many.
• A couple of times in the book he violates what I found best in his approach. He lets his guard down, and out pop comments like this (p. 271): This gives them (white people trying to help other whites change for the better) an opportunity to say to America’s overt white supremacists: “You’re a bunch of spoiled children. You think your whiteness makes you special. You aren’t. You think your whiteness entitles you to privileges and respect. It doesn’t. Grow up, start caring for your fellow human beings, and earn the respect you crave.” Anyone who has worked with the traumatized knows this is not usually an effective approach. The author should know better. What really encourages people to change?
• The author is essentially a-political in his analysis: Check out page 104, where he lays his cards on the table succinctly: “There is only one way through this stalemate. White Americans must accept, explore, and mend their centuries-old trauma around the oppression and victimization of white bodies by other, more powerful white bodies.” The more I think about this, the less convinced I am – especially given these past four Trump years. I am not sure we can wait for all these white people to “do the work”, which may be forever. And I suspect (unproven!) that changing the economic conditions of oppressed peoples (black, NA, women, LBGTQ, Asian, folks with disabilities, poor/uneducated whites etc) – providing good jobs, quality education, housing, and health care – might get us there a lot sooner. And these are political acts, not rubbing one’s tummy and settling oneself down. It’s a long-standing debate: do you change people (more or less one by one) or do you change systems, and people will thrive and bloom in good ways.
• Here’s my most important concern: The author was a trainer for the Minneapolis police and wrote this book prior to the Floyd George killing. I don’t expect training to deliver 100%, but it calls attention to a really serious problem with all the kind of training programs going on around the country on racism: what works? What really changes people? Versus what makes a lot of money for the trainers or satisfies some business requirement? As with DiAngelo (White Fragility), (whom he praises, and who praises him on the book cover) – he benefits from a continuing, growing pool of customers. I hate to be a cynic, but this is a long-standing problem in the mental health field. I am big on “deliverables.” What REALLY inspires people to change? Prove to me that the training changes behaviors! I notice that with all the many chapters and many words in this book, there is no chapter on measurable results from his work.

You will be happy to hear that this about sums up my thoughts on this book. I would be more likely to recommend it for people who have been traumatized by something in their lives (abuse etc.) than for people working on racism issue, and because of the first two or three chapters. The book that had the biggest impact on me regarding my own racism and institutional racism and how to effect change has been MLK, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community – still so relevant – the last book he ever wrote. And The Fire Next Time by Baldwin.”

 

Bradford L. Wade “Menakem does a fine job examining race and collective trauma. This is an important book about one of the biggest problems in the U.S. I have recommended this book to loved-ones. Buy it. But be prepared.

Menakem should know better than to speak as a therapist and draw readers into a trusting relationship, then ask us to picture him brutally killing a puppy in front of our eyes. It is a betrayal of his profession’s ethics. At the very least, the chapter should have come with a trigger warning. Either that, or don’t present yourself as a therapist. Pick one. As a trauma therapist, he must know that some of his readers have PTSD.

No big deal? Who cares? I do. Throughout my life, I have experienced trauma at the hands of men who are basically good guys — most of the time — but who have episodes where they feel justified in acting out toxic masculinity. I was a teen before I was allowed to have a pet, at which time I was allowed to bring an unwanted kitten into our home. This cat became very important to me, helping me deal with earlier emotional trauma. The attachment deepened over several years, then my father deliberately killed my pet. (At least I didn’t have to watch him do it; I am thankful for that.)

As someone who has been studying racism for years, I understand and appreciate the author’s noble goal. Maybe he felt the noble goal justified skipping the trigger warning so he could sneak up on his readers for greater impact? Who knows. Whatever the reason, it doesn’t change that he added a little difficulty to a life that was already near the breaking point.

Collective and intergenerational trauma have huge impacts on our lives. That’s an all-too-real experience for many of us. Yes, we can trace white supremacy back to much earlier white-on-white trauma in Europe. And it’s important for people to know that history. But toxic masculinity came many centuries before that.

Racism and patriarchy are intertwined. Both need to be dismantled.”

 

BrandyV333 “As a trauma therapist, I want to say that Resmaa’s book is very well organized with clear descriptions of the most current understanding of trauma physiology and healing. There is a lot of preparation for the reader to help support us in our journey through difficult material, including how to manage difficult thoughts, emotions and sensations as they arise. There are a lot of wonderful exercises that people can use to learn how to work with racialized trauma in every chapter. As a white-bodied person, it has changed the way I relate with stories of racial violence. The idea is to metabolize our historical trauma so that we can make room for something new. For example, when I hear about another black-bodied young man being shot, I take a moment and feel the feelings that come up, rather then pushing them away or feeling helpless to change anything. I allow myself to feel the hurt and shame that my ancestors perpetrated atrocities on black-bodies that were perpetrated against them in historical times in Europe. If I can process these feelings, I might be less likely to recreate them in the present and future. Healing is an incremental process and an ongoing one.”

 

L. Costellov “Resmaa Menakem has created a space in which we can all attend to our own trauma. He explains the nature of racialized trauma and how trauma predisposes people to behaviours that re-traumatize. He creates a call to all of us to heal our own distress so that then we can be bodies of calm and safety in a world that feels unsafe to so many. The book is practical, offering simple (but not simplistic) tools to practice for self-healing.

I am a somatic psychotherapist, working with traumatized bodies and minds, and Resmaa’s book had new ideas to offer to me. We think of trauma as an individual experience but it is much more, and the intergenerational effects are relevant. I appreciate having this book as a resource and hope that many will read and use it.”

 

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