Dr Joy DeGruy, about resolving trauma and how we can all BE the healing
Spirit of Humanity Forum
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As part of the 'A Narrative of Love project', Dr Scherto Gill hosted a series of conversations with thinkers and spiritual teachers on their understanding of love, and how they see the significance of love in our personal and political lives. This series was in preparation for the 5th Spirit of Humanity Forum, June 2021.
Dr DeGruy highlights key elements that can move society towards healing, at both personal and collective levels. She offers pathways that individuals, organisations, and governments can embark on to repair, rebuild and restructure our common space by accepting and appreciating our shared humanness. How we can all BE the Healing.
Dr DeGruy’s research focuses on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence and American chattel slavery. Here she shares what it feels for black African Americans to negotiate the multiple challenges of living in a racist society, including internalised racism, learned helplessness, and structural dehumanisation. How we dehumanise our own selves when we behave in racist ways. When we put others down or blame others, we are robbing ourselves of our own humanity. She shares about the passing on of trauma when we have no access to means of healing our trauma, so the children start modelling the behaviours of their traumatised parents. And when everyone around them is also traumatised the behaviour becomes 'normalised' and then we become unaware of the problem, that it is something that has a reason and can be treated. How crucial it is to break the evil cycle and not pass the trauma on.
She always felt that humanity is one people and she expresses that with a lot of love and joy. She shares the powerful experience she had when visiting villages in Africa, always being met with a greeting meaning 'I see you'. It made her remember how Afro-American people living in the south, people who don't necessarily know each other, to this day have the habit of acknowledging each other with a nod, meaning 'I see you'. To be seen means 'you are not invisible', 'you are valued', 'you are worthy of being loved'. Realising the value of being seen in this way was life-transforming and prompted her to write her next book.
#spiritofhumanity #reconciliation #healingtrauma
https://joydegruy.com
Twitter: DrJoyDeGruy
https://www.sohforum.org
https://ghfp.org
https://scherto.com
#DrJoyDeGruy #bethehealing #RacialEquity
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Dr Joy DeGruy, about resolving trauma and how we can all BE the healing
Spirit of Humanity Forum
23,894 views
As part of the 'A Narrative of Love project', Dr Scherto Gill hosted a series of conversations with thinkers and spiritual teachers on their understanding of love, and how they see the significance of love in our personal and political lives. This series was in preparation for the 5th Spirit of Humanity Forum, June 2021.
Dr DeGruy highlights key elements that can move society towards healing, at both personal and collective levels. She offers pathways that individuals, organisations, and governments can embark on to repair, rebuild and restructure our common space by accepting and appreciating our shared humanness. How we can all BE the Healing.
Dr DeGruy’s research focuses on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence and American chattel slavery. Here she shares what it feels for black African Americans to negotiate the multiple challenges of living in a racist society, including internalised racism, learned helplessness, and structural dehumanisation. How we dehumanise our own selves when we behave in racist ways. When we put others down or blame others, we are robbing ourselves of our own humanity. She shares about the passing on of trauma when we have no access to means of healing our trauma, so the children start modelling the behaviours of their traumatised parents. And when everyone around them is also traumatised the behaviour becomes 'normalised' and then we become unaware of the problem, that it is something that has a reason and can be treated. How crucial it is to break the evil cycle and not pass the trauma on.
She always felt that humanity is one people and she expresses that with a lot of love and joy. She shares the powerful experience she had when visiting villages in Africa, always being met with a greeting meaning 'I see you'. It made her remember how Afro-American people living in the south, people who don't necessarily know each other, to this day have the habit of acknowledging each other with a nod, meaning 'I see you'. To be seen means 'you are not invisible', 'you are valued', 'you are worthy of being loved'. Realising the value of being seen in this way was life-transforming and prompted her to write her next book.
#spiritofhumanity #reconciliation #healingtrauma
https://joydegruy.com
Twitter: DrJoyDeGruy
https://www.sohforum.org
https://ghfp.org
https://scherto.com
#DrJoyDeGruy #bethehealing #RacialEquity
"...the awkward becomes the acceptable and the unacceptable becomes merely inconvenient." "...Live with it long enough and the unthinkable becomes normal." " ...we come to believe that the incomprehensible is the way life is supposed to be."