72 | Coping Strategies for Racial Trauma with Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah

Today, we’re discussing ways to heal from and cope with racial trauma with our guest, Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah.

Jacquelyn is a Nigerian American Storyteller and User Experience Designer in the wellness space. She has a degree in Social welfare, where her focus was on making wellness more accessible to overlooked communities. She also has a degree in UX design, where she spent a year researching what it would take to design a platform that reduced the barriers of therapy for Black, Indigenous and People of Color.

In 2018, Jacquelyn published The Geometry of Being Black, a poetic body of work that provides a glimpse into prominent experiences of the Black community.

In this episode, we talk about…

•       The difference between coping and healing.
•       Defining racial trauma, and understanding its signs and symptoms.
•       Understanding The Four Bodies of healing.
•       Identifying and coping with racial battle fatigue.
•       Activism as an act of hope.

RESOURCES:

• Check out Jacquelyn's course Making the Body a Home: Unpacking Internalized Racism     
• Follow Jacquelyn on Instagram: @ogorchukwuu
• Read The Four Bodies: A Toolkit for Healing Racial Trauma
• Follow Jacquelyn on Facebook: @ogorchukwuu
• Follow Jacquelyn on Twitter: @ogorchukwuu
• Order Jacquelyn’s book The Geometry of Being Black
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• Take the Balanced Black Girl Listener Survey

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