Other Resources for Mental Health, Trauma, Racism

Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma
A 17-minute guided meditation using mindfulness, affirmation, and metta (loving-kindness)

The Ally + Accomplice Meditation for Cultivating an Anti-Racist Mindset 
A 17-minute guided meditation for White people who identify as allies and/or accomplices to Black Lives Matter using mindfulness, affirmation, and metta (loving-kindness

The Marshall Project newsletter

How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools on YouTube

Why America Can’t Escape Its Racist Roots (article in The Harvard Gazette)

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (article in The Atlantic)

Video on understanding the social determinants of health and toxic stress

Video on the social determinants of toxic stress, specifically race and ethnic toxic stress

Video: US inner-city children suffer ‘war zone’ trauma

Video: Black Mental Health Isn’t the Same as White Mental Health by Mental Health Chanel TV

Article on coping with anticipatory grief

Article on coping with traumatic stress

www.beam.community/birth

www.blackgirlssmile.org/resoureces

Color of Change

Management Leadership for Tomorrow: https://mlt.org/