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It's time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.
If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma--such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence--you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and keeping close relationships. Sometimes you may feel very alone in your pain. But you are not alone. This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness.
In The Pain We Carry, you'll find powerful tools to help you understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You'll discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim your health and wellness by reconnecting with your sense of self and your ancestral wisdom. You'll learn how trauma is connected to grief, how it can affect both the mind and the body, and how it can persist from one generation to the next. Most importantly, you'll find the validation you need to begin mending your heart, and the skills you need to live a life of intention--even in the midst of an oppressive system.
It's time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this guide, you will uncover your own strength in order to work toward healing C-PTSD within the external constraints you face to live a life of resilience, empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.
Based on the powerful self-help guide, The Pain We Carry, this workbook will help you heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.
If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma from the toxic stress of--discrimination, racialized violence, racial stigmatization, traumatic grief, legacies of intergenerational trauma, poverty, sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, or the remnants of colonial and historical trauma--you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, rage, mistrust, fear, anxiety, depression, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or find it difficult to build and keep close relationships. Sometimes you may feel very alone in your pain. But you are not alone.
Written by an author of color and based on her pivotal book, The Pain We Carry, this workbook provides a practical, step-by-step, and culturally informed approach to healing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color. Using skills drawn from internal family systems (IFS) therapy, the cultural empowerment approach to healing, ancestral wisdom, and more, you will discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion, reclaim your Self, and find personal liberation and wholeness--despite living within an oppressive social system.
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It's time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this workbook, you will uncover your own strength and work toward healing your C-PTSD and live a life of empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.