ABSTRACT

Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment.

As readers explore each part of this workbook, they will develop tools to overcome the mental injuries that occur from living in a racialized society. Clinicians who use this workbook with clients will find a practical toolbox of racially informed interventions to aid clinicians, particularly White clinicians, in culturally sensitive clinical practice.

chapter |20 pages

Test of Introduction

part 1|47 pages

Tools to Promote Healing from Racial Trauma

chapter Activity 1|2 pages

Racialized Trauma Self-Assessment Checklist

chapter Activity 2|6 pages

Uncovering Your Racialized Trauma

chapter Activity 3|7 pages

Identifying Internalized Racism

chapter Activity 4|6 pages

Interrupting the Cycle of Internalized Racism

chapter Activity 5|10 pages

Your Body Can Help

chapter Activity 6|5 pages

A Healing Self-Compassion Meditation

chapter Activity 7|1 pages

My Racial Healing Toolbox

part 2|53 pages

Tools to Promote Self-Esteem

chapter Activity 8|6 pages

Self-Esteem Questionnaire

chapter Activity 9|4 pages

Black Racial Identity Quiz

chapter Activity 10|7 pages

Your Melanin is Poppin'

chapter Activity 11|3 pages

Let Your Social Media Reflect Your Confidence

chapter Activity 12|1 pages

Take a Selfie

chapter Activity 13|5 pages

Family Ties

chapter Activity 14|3 pages

Proud Moments

chapter Activity 15|3 pages

Goals Toward Greatness

chapter Activity 16|4 pages

Visualize Your Greatness

chapter Activity 17|3 pages

Create Your Catchphrase

part 3|39 pages

Tools to Promote Resilience

chapter Activity 18|5 pages

Metaphor of Life

chapter Activity 19|3 pages

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

chapter Activity 20|3 pages

Your Family Story

chapter Activity 21|4 pages

You're a Survivor

chapter Activity 22|2 pages

Rewrite the Narrative

chapter Activity 23|5 pages

Self-Compassion

chapter Activity 24|3 pages

Purpose and Resilience

chapter Activity 25|2 pages

Manifesting Your Purpose

chapter Activity 26|1 pages

Using Fun to Enhance Resilience

part 4|60 pages

Tools to Promote Empowerment

chapter Activity 27|3 pages

Music for Your Soul

chapter Activity 28|3 pages

Stories That Inspire

chapter Activity 29|3 pages

Heritage Wall

chapter Activity 30|3 pages

My Pearls of Wisdom

chapter Activity 31|3 pages

Release and Let Go

chapter Activity 32|3 pages

Safe Spaces

chapter Activity 33|3 pages

Black Minds Matter

chapter Activity 34|3 pages

Sociopolitical Empowerment

chapter Activity 35|5 pages

Your Role as a Change Agent

chapter Activity 36|3 pages

Black Economic Empowerment

chapter Activity 37|4 pages

Messages About Money

chapter Activity 38|6 pages

Anti-Racism Empowerment Strategies

part 5|48 pages

Tools to Promote Community

chapter Activity 39|3 pages

Finding Your Tribe

chapter Activity 40|3 pages

Cultural Institutions

chapter Activity 41|4 pages

The Hate They Give

chapter Activity 42|2 pages

Contribute Your Gift

chapter Activity 43|2 pages

Juneteenth

chapter Activity 44|4 pages

Seven Principles

chapter Activity 45|5 pages

Black Greek Life

chapter Activity 46|3 pages

Community Engagement

chapter Activity 47|2 pages

Community Sense

chapter Activity 48|3 pages

Mind, Body, and Soul

chapter Activity 49|2 pages

Better Together

chapter Activity 50|2 pages

Thank You Letter