If The Body Keeps the Score revealed trauma's grip on flesh, now trace those wounds back through generations with My Grandmother's Hands by .
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- Racial trauma gets the somatic reckoning
- Practical body exercises you'll actually do
- White supremacy lives in your nervous system
- Intergenerational wounds finally make visceral sense
If The Body Keeps the Score cracked open your understanding of how trauma lives in flesh and bone, Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands takes that revelation and roots it in centuries of racialized wounds you didn't know your nervous system was carrying. This is somatic healing with a cultural reckoning attached—where van der Kolk gave you the science, Menakem hands you the lineage, the unspoken inheritance of bodies that have survived slavery, white supremacy, and the everyday violence of being seen as threat or invisible.
Menakem doesn't theorize from the clinic; he walks you through body-based practices designed to metabolize rage, shame, and historical grief into something resembling freedom. This is embodied activism for the therapy-literate.
This is embodied activism for the therapy-literate.
What Readers Are Saying
"I loved how personal and insightful this book was... it has the capacity to change a lot of lives." — Novel Addiction, Goodreads
"This powerful book is part educational experience, part healing journey...I strongly recommend this book no matter your body or your experiences living in it." — Elizabeth Schroeder, Goodreads
"eye opening and interesting...a definite reread and reference for myself" — Krysta, Goodreads
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