Trauma · Integration
Racial Identity and Collective Care Worksheet
The other half of race-based stress work
Race-based stress work that only catalogues harm leaves a client with a smaller identity than they started with. This page does the other half: belonging, lineage, and the protective factors that already exist.
Where I come from
What I value about my community, culture or lineage
Something I learned there that has been useful in hard weeks
A person, role or figure who models a way of being I want
Protective factors, checked
- People who understand without explanation being required
- A space where I am the default, not the exception
- Language, food, music or practice that resets me
- Faith, meaning or political clarity about what is happening
- Somewhere my body can be unguarded
- Work or study that connects to something I care about
This month
Which protective factor is most available, and one way to use it more
Which has gone missing, and the smallest step back toward it
How connected I feel to my community right now (0-10)
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Collective care counts as an intervention
For race-based stress, connection and shared reality do more than individual coping skills. Treat access to community as a clinical target rather than a nice extra.