Episode #72: Coping Strategies for Racial Trauma with Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah

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.

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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
Follow Jacquelyn on Instagram: @ogorchukwuu
Read The Four Bodies: A Toolkit for Healing Racial Trauma
Follow Jacquelyn on Facebook: @ogorchukwuu
Follow Jacquelyn on Twitter: @ogorchukwuu
Order Jacquelyn’s book The Geometry of Being Black
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