Healing The Oppressed Body

An essential guide to healing from oppression-based trauma, for everyone left outside of mainstream conversationsThere are many books on trauma healing that can change people’s lives. Yet when queer and trans people, people of color, and all of us living at the margins look for books that reflect our own experiences and that specifically name the oppression we experience as trauma, we’re left empty-handed. There’s little that speaks to the specific traumas we experience: homophobia, transphobia, institutional injustices, isolation, medical trauma, and discrimination at every turn. We deserve to have ourselves reflected and considered in the world of trauma recovery.In Healing the Oppressed Body, somatic therapist Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik provides the best tools and approaches to healing and filters them through an anti-oppression lens, making sure they’re uniquely impactful for all of us.In these pages, you’ll learn how trauma is stored and processed by our minds and bodies and how we...