The Pain We Carry Workbook: Heal Racial Trauma, Reclaim Ancestral Wisdom, and Ignite Your Soul's Liberation - Paperback

by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez (Author), Leslie Priscilla (Foreword by)

Based on the powerful self-help guide, The Pain We Carry, this workbook will help you heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma from the toxic stress of--discrimination, racialized violence, racial stigmatization, traumatic grief, legacies of intergenerational trauma, poverty, sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, or the remnants of colonial and historical trauma--you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, rage, mistrust, fear, anxiety, depression, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or find it difficult to build and keep close relationships. Sometimes you may feel very alone in your pain. But you are not alone.

Written by an author of color and based on her pivotal book, The Pain We Carry, this workbook provides a practical, step-by-step, and culturally informed approach to healing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color. Using skills drawn from internal family systems (IFS) therapy, the cultural empowerment approach to healing, ancestral wisdom, and more, you will discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion, reclaim your Self, and find personal liberation and wholeness--despite living within an oppressive social system.

Let this workbook be your guide to:

• Learn how trauma is connected to grief
• Release trauma and burdens from your body, mind, and spirit
• Build self-compassion and resilience
• Reconnect with your ancestral wisdom
• Discover how to heal your heart and Soul and live a life of intention

It's time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this workbook, you will uncover your own strength and work toward healing your C-PTSD and live a life of empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.

Author Biography

Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT, (she/her) is a Puerto Rican licensed therapist and healer in New York, NY. She is the author of The Pain We Carry. Gutiérrez specializes in supporting communities of color reeling from the soul wounds of complex trauma. She has worked to help many people on their journey of navigating and healing racial trauma, colonial and historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, and sexual trauma. Gutiérrez is a certified internal family systems (IFS) therapist and trainer at the IFS Institute.

Foreword writer Leslie Priscilla is a first-generation non-Black Xicana mother to three children, and the founder of Latinx Parenting. She has more than sixteen years' experience working with Latinx parents, children, and families who are practicing ways of connecting with one another and with themselves. She offers programming to increase individual and collective capacities for healing and thriving while sustaining their cultural values.