What is resmaa menakem’s best-selling book?
His New York Times best-selling book is My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Krista Tippett, host: Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds, with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, I return again and again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem.
What is resmaa menakem’s book ‘My grandmother's hands’ about?
Tippett: After a short break, more with Resmaa Menakem. I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being, today with trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem. His book My Grandmother’s Hands is a completely original contribution — part narrative, part workbook — of old wisdom and very new science around healing racial trauma in our bodies.
Will resmaa join on being again?
So we said yes when Resmaa proposed that he join On Being again, this time together with Robin DiAngelo. She is perhaps the foremost voice in our civilizational grappling with whiteness; her book, White Fragility, is one of the most widely read books in the world right now.
What is resmaa’s website?
It is an amazing tool and amazing resource and if you want to learn more about Resmaa’s really powerful work, visit his website Resmaa dot com. That’s spelled R-E-S-M-A-A dot com.
Who is Resmaa Menakem?
Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP) teaches workshops on Cultural Somatics for audiences of African Americans, European Americans, and police officers. He is also a therapist in private practice, and a senior fellow at The Meadows. His New York Times best-selling book is My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Where is the On Being Project located?
The On Being Project is located on Dakota land. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zoë Keating. And the last voice that you hear singing at the end of our show is Cameron Kinghorn. On Being is an independent nonprofit production of The On Being Project.
What do you want to do when you're listening to me right now?
If you’re listening to me right now, one of the things I want you to do is I want you just to sit for a second. And I want you just to stare straight ahead. Just look straight ahead. And as you’re looking straight ahead, just notice what is actually landed and what is actually still kind of in the air.
Did Tippett and Menakem live through trauma?
Tippett: That they’d lived through a lot of trauma. Menakem: Not just that they lived through trauma, but that the angst and the anguish was decontextualized. And so for my Black body to be born into a society by which the white body is the standard is, in and of itself, traumatizing.