Healing Racial Trauma (with Sheila Wise Rowe)

What is racial trauma? How does it affect us all, and what does healing look like? In this episode, Sheila Wise Rowe answers these questions and shares powerful stories of how racial trauma can be healed.

Sheila Wise Rowe is a truth-teller who writes passionately about matters of faith and emotional healing. She advocates for the dignity, rights, and healing of abuse survivors, those carrying racial trauma, and racial (re)conciliation. Sheila is the author of the award-winning book Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, and her newest book, Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration. Learn more at sheilawiserowe.com

Recommended books about racial trauma (these are paid links):

• Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, by Sheila Wise Rowe
• Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration, by Sheila Wise Rowe
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, by Dr. Joy Degruy