Born Black…The Stress of an Unchosen Race
Racial Trauma is Thing
6 min readSep 3, 2020
When I decided to add a Trauma-Informed Approaches certificate to my arsenal of professional tools, I had no idea how open my eyes would become. I knew that extreme stress and the situations kids endure were linked to long term maladaptive coping behaviors because of trauma. I eagerly got on the ACEs site to check out the impact of my own adverse child…