![]() Listen to the full conversation on healing Black generational trauma on our Soundcloud, and RSVP for our upcoming #WIBSpace on the legacy of the Black Press on June 8 at 5 p.m ET. It’s revolutionary to create peace where there has been none in the past,” she said. Have the juiciest face for your kid when you come home.’ That alone is an act of counterterrorism. “I tell everybody ‘have the juiciest face when you see your family come in. And it’ll be some power in me to share my journey with people that look like me and people that I sound like,” he shared.ĭuring our segment on solutions for healing, Overton said she thinks “people need permission to be able to do things differently.” She went on to speak about the creative parenting methods her organization provides Black families, such as controlled breathing exercises to calm kids. I started journaling all of this stuff, and after six or eight months with this journaling process with my therapist, I looked up and I was like, I could turn this into a book. “It took me to be 30 or 29-years-old to be like, ‘Yo, I’m overwhelmed.’ And now, I’m man enough to say I don’t feel weak. There is also growing scientific evidence that generational trauma can have a profound impact on the lives of the BIPOC community, after experiencing centuries of unaddressed trauma. It’s revolutionary to create peace where there has been none in the past. He started journaling about the generational trauma that was passed down in his family, like not showing vulnerability or talking about pain, but just pushing through it. Johnson, whose memoir details how trauma within his family affected his mental health, said after those painful experiences, he sought therapy as an adult, and it changed him for the better. Mental health disparities based on minority racial status are well identified, including inequities in access, symptom severity, diagnosis, and treatment. How it doesn’t necessarily communicate love and kindness and warmth, and how that might even impact them in their adult life, in their romantic relationships,” he said. The impacts of structural racism, can take a mental toll on African Americans. But I’m saying, some of the things that we’ve said have to happen in disciplining our children are part of the ways that we have continued some of these traumas and are not aware of what that does to our children. “I’m not saying that, you know, there isn’t diversity in discipline. ![]() James put a spotlight on how cultural discipline practices in the Black community, like spanking or “whooping,” can negatively impact a child’s development. Some of the things that we’ve said have to happen in disciplining our children are part of the ways that we have continued some of these traumas. Chandra Ford, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at the University of California in Los Angeles. ![]() Joy DeGruy, who invented the theory of “post-traumatic slave syndrome” George Johnson, a mental healthcare entrepreneur and author of “Double Crossed” and Dr. Also on the panel, Bahia Overton, the executive director of Black Parent Initiative and daughter of Dr. ![]()
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