Breaking the Chain: Healing Racial Trauma in the Body
<p>On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging in a Georgia neighborhood when he was shot and killed by a white man. At the time, amid the rising panic of the pandemic, few paid attention; it took 74 days and a viral video for the killer to be arrested and charged with the crime.</p>
<p>Arbery’s death reminds us that, long after the pandemic has come and gone, racial violence will remain an unhealed wound in American society, deeply entwined with our collective history, identity and culture.</p>
<p>Resmaa Menakem’s work offers a path to healing that wound. Menakem practices somatic therapy — from “soma,” meaning body —which recognizes that emotion, memory, and trauma reside not only in the mind but also in the body. Drawing on emerging research in the field of epigenetics, he contextualizes his clinical work within larger patterns of historical and collective trauma that can be passed on from one generation to another through our very DNA.</p>
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