The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

This book illuminates the unique experience of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) by people of color, providing a path to reclaiming health and wholeness despite systemic trauma. Readers of color will find affirmation and techniques for reclaiming wholeness from a social justice and psychological lens.

If you’re a person of color who’s experienced repeated trauma like discrimination, verbal assault, stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence, you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. Inside, you’ll find tools to understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You’ll discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim your health and wellness by reconnecting with your sense of self and ancestral wisdom. Most importantly, you’ll find the validation you need to mend your heart and the skills to live a life of intention, even in an oppressive system.