Resmaa Menakem

Repeat Show. Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse devotes the entire hour to a discussion with author, Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist, and master trainer Resmaa Menakem. They discuss grief, trauma, Indigeneity, reclamation of cultures, and autonomous practicality separate from "identity" and history. Resmaa coaches leaders and people to rise through suffering’s edge. His work focuses on making the invisible, embodied and visible. Resmaa Menakem is a healer, a longtime therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute, a cultural trauma navigator, and a communal provocateur and coach. Resmaa is best known as the author of the New York Times bestseller “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,” and as the originator and key advocate of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice of living and culture building. Resmaa has served as the director of counseling services for Tubman Family Alliance, a domestic violence treatment center in Minneapolis; the behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; a divorce and family mediator; a social worker for Minneapolis Public Schools; a youth counselor; a community organizer; and a marketing strategist. Find Resmaa on Facebook, Instagram, X and LinkedIn. His website is https://www.resmaa.com/.