Healing Racial Trauma, Sheila Wise Rowe
Healing Racial Trauma, Sheila Wise Rowe
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Healing Racial Trauma
The Road To Resilience

Author: Sheila Wise Rowe, Soong-Chan Rah

Narrator: Sheila Wise Rowe

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

"People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, but we have not known how to individually or collectively pursue healing from the racial trauma."

As a child, Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school, and she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others. We experience ongoing racial trauma as this lie is perpetuated by the action or inaction of the government, media, viral videos, churches, and within families of origin. In contrast, Scripture declares that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. Professional counselor Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead listeners to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. In each chapter, she includes an interview with a person of color to explore how we experience and resolve racial trauma. With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both been on the journey and shown others the way forward, you will find a safe pathway to resilience.

About Sheila Wise Rowe

Sheila Wise Rowe, the author of Healing Racial Trauma, holds a master's degree in counseling psychology. She has ministered to abuse and trauma survivors in the United States for over twenty-five years and in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a decade. Sheila has also taught counseling and trauma-related courses. She and her family live in the Boston area, where she is a writer, speaker, and spiritual director.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elisa on January 09, 2020

Sheila approaches the subject of healing racial trauma with the expertise of a counselor, the art of a storyteller, and all of the faith and power of a woman of God. I really cannot recommend it enough to everyone. Fellow non POCs, you will learn how to know and love your POC family, friends, church......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 14, 2021

Summary: A counseling psychologist describes the experience of racial trauma in story, drawing upon her own and other clinical experiences, and explores the resources for resilience to face continuing racial struggle. As a White male, I’ve heard the terminology of racial trauma but have not experienc......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 03, 2022

As a white person, Healing Racial Trauma helped me understand and feel the traumatic element that can go with living as an ethnic minority in America (and Britain). I also appreciated that Jesus meets people in their racial trauma in the same way that he meets us in any form of trauma. Sheila Wise R......more