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 ( https://makingthebodyahome.thinkific.com/courses/Unpacking-internalized-racism )
* Follow Jacquelyn on Instagram: @ogorchukwuu ( https://www.instagram.com/ogorchukwuu/ )
* Read The Four Bodies: A Toolkit for Healing Racial Trauma ( https://medium.com/nappy-head-club/the-four-bodies-a-holistic-toolkit-for-coping-with-racial-trauma-8d15aa55ae06 )
* Follow Jacquelyn on Facebook: @ogorchukwuu ( https://www.facebook.com/ogorchukwuu/ )
* Follow Jacquelyn on Twitter: @ogorchukwuu ( https://twitter.com/ogorchukwuu )
* Order Jacquelyn’s book The Geometry of Being Black ( https://www.amazon.com/geometry-being-Black-ogorchukwu/dp/1719276005 )
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