Stand Up, Speak Up, and Heal: Overcome Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Self-Advocate, and Stay Grounded (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781648487903)

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Stand Up, Speak Up, and Heal: Overcome Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Self-Advocate, and Stay Grounded

$21.95

Stand Up, Speak Up, and Heal: Overcome Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Self-Advocate, and Stay Grounded

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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Healing is an act of resistance, and self-compassion is power.

Racial trauma is often more than one isolated incident; it's the daily stress of navigating a world that misunderstands or invalidates your experience. Over time, this stress can lead to anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and exhaustion. Stand Up, Speak Up, and Heal offers practical, culturally rooted tools to help you manage emotions, calm your body, and reclaim your peace.

Written by three BIPOC mental health professionals, this groundbreaking and practical guide offers dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills for calming your nervous system, managing intense emotions, and healing from the effects of race-based stress.

With this empowering guide, you'll learn to:

  • Understand the emotional and physical toll of racial stress and trauma
  • Stay grounded, centered, and in control
  • Communicate boundaries and self-advocate with confidence
  • Practice mindful self-care that nourishes your joy and energy
  • Build lasting resilience and strengthen your community connections

With real-life stories, culturally attuned exercises, and "Mindful Moment Reflections" in every chapter, Stand Up, Speak Up, and Heal is more than a mental health book--it's a guide to collective and personal liberation. It helps you move from survival to strength, and from pain to power, while staying rooted in self-love and pride.



Author: E. Sofia Mendoza,Lisa Bolden,Lizbeth Gaona
ISBN-10: 1648487904
ISBN-13: 9781648487903
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2026
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
By E. Sofia Mendoza
By E. Sofia Mendoza
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E. Sofia Mendoza, LCSW, identifies as a bilingual and bi-ethnic Latina and Indigenous daughter of immigrants. She is a community mental health supervisor and private practice clinician specializing in social justice, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), and complex trauma among BIPOC clients.

Lisa Bolden, PsyD, is an African American and Cherokee psychologist, DEI consultant, and cofounder of the Emmada Psychology Center. She has over twenty years of experience in multicultural mental health, community psychology, and clinician training at institutions including the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC).

Lizbeth Gaona, PhD, LCSW, is a bicultural, bilingual Mexican American clinician, consultant, and associate professor at California Baptist University. She is a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program consultant for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and founder of the Social Work Association for Multicultural or Multilingual Practice (SWAMMP).

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