Racial Trauma Processing

Most trauma support assumes one bad moment, something you can point to and say, that is when it happened. Racial trauma often does not work that way. It builds, quietly, across years of small and large moments. Being watched differently, having to prove yourself twice, code-switching before you have had your coffee.

This group is a space to name that accumulation directly, with others who do not need it explained to them first.

This group does not ask you to identify a single worst incident. Racial trauma is cumulative by nature. Ongoing exposure, not one clear before-and-after moment. If you have struggled to explain your experience to someone looking for a single story, this group starts from a different and more accurate place.

• You are tired in a way that is hard to explain to people who haven't lived it.
• You have noticed the toll of constant vigilance, in spaces, in rooms, in relationships.
• You have been asked to name "the incident" and struggled, because it was never just one.
• You want a space that does not require you to educate anyone before you can actually process anything.
• Your mother's silence was itself a survival response, and that is its own thread. What She Couldn't Give Me follows it.
• You are ready to put words to what your body has been carrying for a long time.

Format

Telehealth, 60 to 75 minutes per session

Group size

Small and closed, 6 to 8 people, so the space stays safe to go deep in

Facilitation

Held by a clinician grounded in Anoshe's own cultural and structural approach to trauma

Session outlines are shown here. The workbook, exercises and facilitated discussion are part of the group itself.