“Let me explain what trauma therapy is,” she said, “and how it works. Ruiz, Gallego, and Chu were part of the team sent up here to get a medical school going. One of the things they noticed was even years after the Grand Suicide, people were still leaving hidden lives, lives running for cover. Alarka is just starting to move out of the shadows a hundred and three years later. We carry our ancestors’ trauma and fears. They reasoned humanity was in near-permanent trauma. After a lot of research, and planning, the trauma therapy program started in New Durham four years ago. Here I am.”
“And here I am. Help me help him,” John-Caleb said.
She explained how the multifaceted approach to chronic racial trauma developed, beginning with a basic assertion: everyone deserves to be happy, to be safe.
