PTSD

No Mother Ever Wanted A Legacy of Trauma 

No Mother Ever Wanted A Legacy of Trauma 

Mothers birth more than children. They birth a new possibility for a community. Mothers carry the legacy of history and culture and often dedicate more time to maintaining a household and rearing children than they do caring for themselves. Mothers are the first teachers of children. They show them how to see the world as it is or as it can be.

Coping With Racial Trauma Means Learning a New Way to Swim

Coping With Racial Trauma Means Learning a New Way to Swim

Surviving the impacts of ongoing racial trauma can feel like trying to swim with one hand holding a sink stone. You have to work twice as hard to keep yourself afloat, and it’s exhausting. Racial trauma sits beneath the skin of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and it comes with an enormous weight that gets heavier each day.