Sometimes, healing begins when we understand where the pain comes from.
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0:00A: people of color all over the world, they experience that same kind of inherited trauma. Yeah, complex trauma situation. Complex trauma. And in some ways, I think it gets into you genetically. And my mother experienced horrifying abuse at the same, worse even than my dad. And so, just understanding the role of how all that macroeconomic conditions, these the abuse of various abusive factors that happen. And then looking across and seeing somebody look -- might look different from you, but they are the same fundamentally. One of my favorite sayings is that sometimes when you reach up to scratch your head, you might accidentally poke yourself in the eye. And the thing about that is you’re not going to yell at your finger for being mad because you consider it to be a part of yourself. Right. And so if someone does an injustice upon you, the only real way out of that is to do the same thing, is to consider that person a part of yourself.
