Resources

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts, Resmaa Menakem
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Sweat your Prayers: The Five Rhythms of the Soul—Movement as Spiritual Practice, Gabrielle Roth
Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Boy who was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Bruce Perry—an exploration of how traumatic experiences shape behavior in children.
Tattoos on the Heart and Barking at the Choir, Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
The Body is not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor

“I was taught everything of value by gang members”—Dr. Gregory Boyle
The Best Explanation of Addiction I’ve Ever Heard—Gabor Mate, M.D.
When They See Us, Ava Duvernay—Documentary about the wrongfully imprisoned Central Park Five
13th, Ava Duvernay—The history of slavery in the U.S., the impact of systemic racism and the resulting Civil Rights movement.