My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

This book introduces a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy. Shedding light on how it is literally in our blood and our nervous systems. My Grandmother’s Hands offers the following: a step-by-step solution–a self-help manual–in addition to incisive social commentary. Including examining how trauma passes down through generations of African Americans.

• Resmaa is the first mental health professional to bring recent discoveries in neurobiology and somatic healing methods to bear on the subject.
• Resmaa is the first to also address the vicarious trauma experienced by white and blue Americans (police officers).