136: Racial Trauma and Somatic Healing with Rebecca-Monique

E136
1:26:50
July 27th 2020

On Episode 136 of You, Me, Empathy, somatic and transformational coach Rebecca-Monique beautifully shares about the time she literally lost her voice after losing her adoptive mother, protecting herself early on from pain and trauma by internalizing it, psychological abuse, and how we have everything within ourselves to thrive, despite the barriers and challenges.

Rebecca-Monique and I talk about how she moved from Africa to the UK when she was a child, how she developed survival techniques throughout childhood that would later hinder her, the juxtaposition of becoming a mom and not having a strong mother figure in her life, why shame silences us, attachment styles, defensive mechanisms, communicating the “why”, the suffering we experience when we don’t look, and why healing is relational and communal.

Finally, we explore intergenerational trauma and racial trauma, including inner child work, the covert forms of racism that persist at the foundational level in our society that we need to unlearn and disrupt, the trauma we hold in our bodies, the lived experience of Black bodies, and forgiving ourselves for the pain and trauma we’ve experienced.

Rebecca-Monique is doing amazing work in the world! Give her a follow on Instagram @rbccmnq and rbccmnq.com. Thanks to Rebecca-Monique for sharing her story!

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