Intergenerational and race-based experiences shape our sense of identity, culture, and capacity for life’s everyday challenges. Where trauma is present, at any level of familial or cultural history, those senses and capacities are violated, and we hold these traumatic impacts in our bodies from generation to generation.
For many Black people, conventional self-care and healing practices, often based on Western perspectives, do not consider their lived experiences. This book presents an ancestrally affirming view of holistic health, rooted in creative traditions and practices found in the African diaspora. Through stories and arts-based experiences, readers are invited to connect with their bodies and their communities to address intergenerational and race-based trauma.
A call to action to build true community and work towards collective liberation.
For many Black people, conventional self-care and healing practices, often based on Western perspectives, do not consider their lived experiences. This book presents an ancestrally affirming view of holistic health, rooted in creative traditions and practices found in the African diaspora. Through stories and arts-based experiences, readers are invited to connect with their bodies and their communities to address intergenerational and race-based trauma.
A call to action to build true community and work towards collective liberation.
Reviews
A resonant workbook for healing that makes us sit up and pay attention to ourselves and our bodies in a way that is reminiscent of Menakem's seminal work My Grandmother's Hands. This is an essential guide to how BIPOC people experience the world and how it affects us; Webb and Thomas invite us to celebrate our creativity and allow the healing process to begin.
Reading Black Creative Healing in the era of developing work that will create new narratives for Blackness and disability was timely for me. Part workbook, life reflections, and skills/honor building, Black Creative Healing reminds us that we - the living - have the responsibility and capability to reach back from the past and learn from our collective African Ancestors. Black Creative Healing should be on the bookshelf of every Black identifying person - the book that brings who we are and where we're going into fuller view.