![]() It’s these whole group of kids where you’re the only one and like no one is you know coming to your defense or support. Then again, you have like the power dynamic with the with the peers. I adopted you and I do various community service things for black people,” and was kind of pulling for her to take care of her. ![]() Then the person will notice her discomfort, and this was an amazing thing to me I’ll say generationally because I had not heard of this, but she said they will say to her, “Don’t I get a pass?” Get a pass meaning that somehow I guess that you’re cool enough, that you’re connected enough, that you’re allowed to say it, and so then it becomes this thing at her of like you’re supposed to give me this pass and and she says, “No, you do you don’t get a pass, that’s not okay.” Then she had the experience of her mother was telling a story and used the word and so then the freeze response, she was in the car and her parents were driving in the front and then when she got upset about it, then her mother kind of made it about her daughter saying something like when you said that it made me feel not safe, so the mother very much personalized that to, “What are you saying about me? I always try to be a good mother. One is she will be having a great time with her friends sitting around at someone’s house, and it’s happened more than once, that one of the friends will drop the n-word and she is like literally frozen in time and space and then is silent but very angry. She was adopted by a white family and they live in a predominantly white neighborhood, go to a predominantly white school, and two of the experiences that she describes as it relates to the freeze response. One of the clients that I think about as it relates to this freeze response is an adolescent who was adopted from East Africa. Thema will also explain the difference between traditional trauma therapy and liberation therapy, and why liberation therapy can be so critical for people from marginalized communities. She’ll share her approach in the video below. So how did Thema Bryant, PhD work with her? And for one teenager who was repeatedly experiencing racism, it was triggering a freeze response. ![]()
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