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

The Pain We Carry offers a path to healing for people of color who have experienced complex trauma, providing tools to understand and recover from repeated trauma, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim health and wellness. It explores the connection between trauma and grief, its impact on the mind and body, and the importance of validation and intention in mending the heart.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2022
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

It is time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit. If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma, such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence, you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and keeping close relationships. Sometimes, you may feel very alone in your pain.

However, you are not alone. This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness.

In The Pain We Carry, you will find powerful tools to help you understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You will 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 your ancestral wisdom. You will learn how trauma is connected to grief, how it can affect both the mind and the body, and how it can persist from one generation to the next.

Most importantly, you will find the validation you need to begin mending your heart, and the skills you need to live a life of intention—even in the midst of an oppressive system.

It is time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this guide, you will uncover your own strength in order to work on healing C-PTSD within the external constraints you face to live a life of resilience, empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.

Weight: 296g
Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684039319