My podcast partner Danielle and I met virtually this week with author, filmmaker, theologian, poet and PhD candidate, Phil Allen Jr. to discuss the themes in his new book Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma and Redemption on the Arise Podcast. We talk about the layers of racism that are highlighted through the storytelling of his grandfather’s murder in 1953. We explore how racial trauma is intergenerational, effecting each generation a little bit differently and h

This week on the Arise Podcast, Trauma Coach Marisa Wandeler (@Latina_Heals) shared about the healing power of consent. So much of what happens during trauma is taking--it takes innocence, a sense of safety, it takes mind and body. And it is all done against someone's will, by force, without permission or consent. The same is true in colonization--there is a taking, by force and against will, land, property, people and ideas. Marisa describes one of the hallmarks of decoloniz