White Supremacy as a Trauma Response

<p>It&rsquo;s not that we&rsquo;ve been lazy or insincere. But my experience as a therapist tells me that we&rsquo;ve focused our efforts in the wrong direction. We&rsquo;ve tried to teach our brains to think better about race. But what if white supremacy doesn&rsquo;t live in our thinking brains? What if it lives and breathes in our bodies?</p> <p>Our bodies have a form of knowledge that is different from our cognitive brains. This knowledge is typically experienced as a felt sense of constriction or expansion, pain or ease, energy or numbness. Often this knowledge is stored in our bodies as wordless stories about what is safe and what is dangerous.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@rmenakem/white-supremacy-as-a-trauma-response-ce631b82b975"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>