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
Apr 27
#509: Commitment vs. Devotion
In this episode, I explore the profound difference between commitment and devotion and why that distinction might be the thing standing between you and the life you're actually meant to live. Commitment lives in the mind; it's strategic, rigid, and safe, but devotion is sacred. I ... Show More
21m 10s
Apr 20
#508: Saving Them Won't Save You
Here's what nobody wants to hear: the relationship you keep ending up in isn't bad luck - it's a pattern, and patterns have origins. In this episode, I'm unpacking the "problem and fixer" dynamic, how your childhood attachment wounds quietly write the script for who you're attrac ... Show More
51m 1s
Jul 2024
The Embodied Path to Healing Trauma with Resmaa Menakem
324. The Embodied Path to Healing Trauma with Resmaa Menakem
Author, therapist, licensed clinical worker, racialized trauma expert, Resmaa Menakem discusses the concepts of somatic abolitionism, and the importance of embodied anti-racist practices.
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-The difference b ... Show More
1h 7m
Apr 2021
Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. He is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders, and ve ... Show More
50m 44s
Apr 2024
Let them see you cry, by Reshma Saujani
<p>Reshma Saujani, activist and founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, prides herself on being in control. She’s always been the one to say “I got this.” But after years of struggling to achieve her lifelong goal of being a mother, the weight of powering through the pain gets ... Show More
32m 55s