Decolonizing the body : healing, body-centered practices for women of color to reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth

Blackwell, Kelsey2023

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As a woman of colour, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence, and restore your powerful sense of self. Written by a woman of colour for women of colour, this work offers proven-effective somatic, body-centred practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth - as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive.