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Book

Releasing our burdens : a guide to healing individual, ancestral, and collective trauma

Call Number

  • 155.93 S3998 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Boulder, CO : Sounds True, 2025.

Physical Description

vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

Presents a framework for understanding trauma as both an individual and collective phenomenon shaped by personal experience, ancestral inheritance, and social systems. Drawing on Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and Thomas Hübl's work in collective and group trauma healing, the authors explain how different therapeutic approaches can be integrated to address deeply rooted patterns of harm. The book offers conceptual guidance and practical methods for increasing awareness, compassion, and healing, including applications to trauma caused by social injustice such as racial oppression.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Two approaches, one goal
  • Trauma, healing, and individual experience
  • Trauma and the collective
  • Racism, social location, and trauma / by Fatimah Finney
  • Calling the ancestors
  • Trauma and spirituality
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix for therapists
  • Appendix for group facilitators
  • About the author.

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