“We have to defy lies and embrace the truth of our humanity.”  In this episode, Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills, a clinical psychologist and the past president of the Association of Black Psychologists, joins to discuss how we can recognize and cope with racial stress and trauma at work and beyond. We talk about the impact that racial stress and trauma has on our mental, emotional, and physical health, as well as on our relationships with others, and how we can emancipate ourselves from ubiquitous messaging regarding Black inferiority.  

Topics Covered: 

• How Dr. Grills began researching racial trauma and stress
• Defining trauma, racial trauma, and collective trauma
• The impact of trauma on our mental, emotional, and physical health
• Signs and symptoms of racial trauma
• Dealing with racial stress and trauma at work and strategies to cope
• The erasure of Black women’s experiences of racism and racial trauma
• How we internalize the myth of racial inferiority
• Emotional emancipation circles and how they can help to increase our consciousness 
• How to deal with anti-Black racism
• Resources: Association of Black Psychologists; Dr. Grills’ TEDx Talk, Emancipation from Mental Slavery

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