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Feb 2021
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#135: Resmaa Menakem - Racialized Trauma

MARK GROVES
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Resmaa Menakem is a Healer, New York Times Best-Selling Author, and Trauma Specialist. He helps people, communities, and organizations find strength in healing that is holistic and resilient. He helps people rise through the suffering’s edge. He is a cultural trauma navigator, a communal provocateur and coach. I first heard Resmaa on my friend Jayson Gaddis' ... Show More
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