Books – Cultural Somatics Institute

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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‍‍In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies.

Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans.

Somatic Abolitionist 12-Month Practicebook - Bundle of 3

This 12-month practicebook is intended to be a companion piece to the New York Times Best Selling book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

This practicebook includes questions about each month and the subsequent reading assignments, a summary of important points of each month and the subsequent reading assignments, body practices to ground you and help you recognize your own reflexive reactions/activation, and further resources at the end. Use the questions and answers as somatic elicitation to constantly read and re-read and soul-scribe on.

NOTE: This practicebook is intended to be completed communally, in groups of at least three. Please choose the version best-suited to your communal body grouping, Bodies of Culture, Black Bodies, or White Bodies.

The Quaking of America

Through the coordinated repetition of lies, anti-democratic elements in American society are working to incite mass radicalization, widespread chaos, and a collective trauma response in tens of millions of American bodies. Currently, most of us are utterly unprepared for this potential mayhem. This book can help prepare us—and possibly prevent further destruction. In The Quaking of America, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic processes addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political violence.

This preparation focuses not on strategy or politics, but on practices that can help us:

Build presence and discernment in our bodies
Settle our bodies during the heat of conflict
Maintain our safety, sanity, and stability in dangerous situations
Heal our personal and collective racialized trauma
Practice embodied social action
Turn toward instead of on one another

This preparation focuses not on strategy or politics, but on practices that can help us:

Quaking of America Practicebook - Bundle of 2

This practicebook is intended to be a companion piece to the book Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.

This practicebook includes questions about each book chapter, a summary of important points of each month, body practices to ground you and help you recognize your own reflexive reactions/activation, and helpful graphical illustrations. Use the questions and answers as somatic elicitation to constantly read and re-read and soul-scribe on.

NOTE: This practicebook is intended to be completed communally and individually, in groups of at least two. As a result, this order comes with two practicebooks.

If you would like to order a special bundle of both the Quaking of America book and the practicebook, please check out our book + practicebook combo bundle in the store.

Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy―and What You Can Do About It

A gritty, down-to-earth guide for real-life couples

Conflict is a natural part of any intimate relationship. Yet most couples either avoid it or try to smooth over their differences. This often results in at least one partner compromising their integrity—and stunting their own growth.

Monsters in Love challenges the idea that conflict between partners is unhealthy or something to avoid. Instead, it encourages both people to stand by what they need and who they are—but to do so with compassion rather than competitiveness or vengefulness.

This book is about the reality of committed, intimate relationships, which are designed to inspire both people to grow up. It challenges some common misperceptions about what makes for a successful partnership. It also rocks the boat of psychotherapy, calling out therapists who don’t bring their best to their clients.

Instead of comforting fantasies or false promises, Monsters in Love offers you and your partner a chance to make your relationship—and your lives—much bigger and more emergent.

Monsters in Love Practicebook - Bundle of 2

This practicebook is intended to be a companion piece to the book Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy―and What You Can Do About It.

NOTE: This practicebook is intended to be completed communally and individually, in groups of at least two. As a result, this order comes with two practicebooks.

If you would like to order a special bundle of both the Monsters in Love book and the practicebook, please check out our Monsters in Love book + practicebook combo bundle in the store.

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