Hot summer days have come. Soon enough it will be fall. Schools have reopened

It may be difficult, perhaps seemingly far-fetched, to consider that race and trauma coincide, or that they even exist in our individual or collective bodies. However, because of the manner in which our nervous system processes information and experiences of race and racism, both of which are so much a part of our American history and culture, it would be neglectful from a mental health standpoint to discount the mark that a societal history of racialization leaves in all our bodies.

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If there are aspects of our human experience that many of us yearn for and thrive in the most, it would be meaningful connections and community.