Midwifing-A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self Slavery Violence and the Black Woman

Midwifing--A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self Slavery Violence and the Black Woman is an investigation of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the impact of slavery violence racism sexism classism and other isms on the self of the Black woman. This examination of the complexity of pain speaks to the multidimensional reality of some Black women and the necessity for a therapeutic technique that invites the fullness of the Black womans historical narrative. Dr. Thurmond-Malones work exposes hidden pain in a safe and sacred space that speaks to the deep-rooted anguish experienced through generations of Black women and invites her readers to understand the necessity for a rebirthing to occur. This work also empowers women of African descent to become unarmored through the naming claiming and reauthoring of their story and empowers therapists to become midwives adept at empathizing with the intense pain carried by some Black women. Lastly the book provides clinicians with insight into how to become midwives capable of holding the accounts of Black women while illustrating the authors approach as a method of interdependence communal and cultural competency. Taking an analytical look at the counselees past then births hope for their future as a whole and transformative self.