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American psychotherapist and author

Resmaa Menakem (born Chester Mason, Jr.)^[1] is an American author and psychotherapist specialising in the effects of trauma on the human body and the relationship between trauma, white body supremacy, and racism in America.^{[2][3][4][5][1]}

He is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, published in September 2017,^[6][7] which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021^[6] and The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, published in 2022.^[3] He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute.^[8]

Career

For ten years, Menakem cohosted a radio show with former U.S.

Congressman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on KMOJ-FM in Minneapolis. He also hosted his own sho