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The Road to Liberation with Resmaa Menakem
Episode 10
Friday, 25 September, 2026
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, is a healer, therapist, author, and racialized trauma specialist whose work focuses on trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, communal healing, and cultural transformation.He is the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies and The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute, and the originator and leading advocate of Somatic Abolitionism—an embodied approach to antiracist practice and culture building.His work invites us to examine how racialized trauma lives in the body and how healing requires individual and communal practice.Resmaa's professional biography and the description of his work are supported by his official website and publisher biography. Explore Resmaa's work: www.resmaa.com Books by Resmaa MenakemMy Grandmother's HandsRacialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesResmaa's New York Times bestselling book explores racialized trauma, the body, and pathways toward healing. https://resmaa-com.myshopify.com/products/my-grandmothers-hands-signed-hardcoverThe Quaking of AmericaAn Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial ReckoningA book about racial reckoning, upheaval, and embodied approaches to collective transformation.https://resmaa-com.myshopify.com/products/quaking-of-america-book-plus-practicebook-combo-bundle-of-2Monsters in LoveWhy Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy—and What You Can Do About ItA guide to navigating conflict and relationships with compassion and personal responsibility.https://resmaa-com.myshopify.com/products/monsters-in-love-why-your-partner-sometimes-drives-you-crazy-and-what-you-can-do-about-itThe Stories from My Grandmother's HandsA picture book connected to Resmaa's work on racialized trauma and intergenerational experience.Resmaa's official website and Central Recovery Press provide information about his books and learning resources.https://resmaa-com.myshopify.com/products/the-stories-from-my-grandmother-s-handsKey themes from the conversationExtraction, extermination, and extinction: Resmaa's framework for examining how colonial structures operate, as discussed in your conversation.Trauma zombies: Exploring the effects of unresolved trauma on our bodies and behaviors.Proximity to whiteness: Examining the dynamics of belonging, survival, and racialized cultural experience.Bodies of culture: Understanding how cultural experience and racialized trauma are carried in the body.Truth and reconciliation: Facing historical and ongoing harm and considering the work of meaningful reconciliation.Kinship care: The role of relationship, community, and collective responsibility in healing.Tending to our wounds: Attending to the wounds we carry as part of individual and collective transformation.The road to liberation: The embodied and relational work of moving toward liberation. You can learn more about Myrna and her work at: www.myrnamccallum.ca
