Healing Racialized Trauma: Lessons from My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem's Book

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Sree Meleth
August 20, 2025

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🌿 Freeing Ourselves Newsletter

August 20th, 2025

✨ Healing Racialized Trauma: Lessons from My Grandmother’s Hands

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Hello dear friends,

As I prepare to travel to India, I want to share reflections from a book that feels deeply relevant to our times: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem.

Menakem reminds us that trauma isn’t just in the mind—it’s stored in our bodies. Until it is acknowledged and released, it continues to shape our lives and relationships.

🔎 White Body Supremacy and Stored Trauma

“White supremacy is not only an ideology; it is an embodied condition.” – Resmaa Menakem

  • Menakem calls it white body supremacy, a force that lives in the nervous systems of all Americans—regardless of skin color.

  • Healing requires not just political or social action, but somatic healing at the body level.

  • True transformation begins when trauma is released from our cells, our breath, and our stories.

This connects so deeply to my own belief:
When your inner story changes, your outer experience changes.

🌈 The Power of the Body to Heal

Dr. Peter Levine, a pioneer in somatic healing, shares a powerful case:

  • A premature baby carried trauma from his early incubator experience.

  • When re-exposed to lights like those in the NICU, he released the trauma through crying and movement.

  • This release allowed him to begin speaking and walking.

✨ A powerful reminder that unprocessed memories live in the body—and can be freed.

👐 Why EFT Is So Effective

This is why Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) work so profoundly. Through tapping, clients can:
✅ Identify where trauma lives in their body
✅ Connect with the memory and emotion stored there
✅ Release pain in a safe, supportive way

The result? Freedom from unconscious patterns that block joy, peace, and success.

🌍 What’s Next

While I’m in India over the next four weeks, I’ll continue sharing reflections from:

  • My Grandmother’s Hands

  • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

  • 10x Is Easier Than 2x

Our healing—personal and collective—is a journey. Thank you for walking it with me.

With love and blessings,
Dr. Sree Meleth
Transformational Coach | Founder of Freeing Ourselves

✨ “When your inner story changes, your outer experience changes.”